Millennials’ extreme hatred for Baby Boomers is totally unjustified

These days people can't use their education because they got an education in something that has no marketable value.

I remember being told as far back as middle School if I didn't go to college I would spend my life flipping burgers. I dropped out of college and went into trades.

And what is so wrong with flipping burgers? I know couple that I want a burger joint, they can pay their bills and put a little extra away. And they're happy.

I was repeatedly told to follow my passion. I did until I realized there were no jobs out there for the field I was passionate about.

 

Boomers have structured Health Care, Taxation, Retirement Funds, etc... to benefit them over other generations by taking unearned $ now that Gen X and beyond will have to pay for. They have been taking advantage of the rest of us for decades. I can see why Millenials are pissed off. Everyone should be that is about fiscal responsibility.

 

not only that, it gave people from other countries the ability to try to divide us from within, pretending to be one of us

 

When I was 15, I thought my dad was one of the dumbest men around.
But as I got older he seemed to get smarter and smarter. By the time my first child was born , my dad had somehow morphed into one of the smartest men I knew!

 

reported for being vague and too toxic at the same time

 

Note that the millenials don't hate the Gen Xers, just the Boomers (who the Gen Xers also hate). We're tired of the Boomers. They need to retire, and give us (Gen X) a chance to lead. Look at the pres candidates. All of the top ones are boomers who just won't give up. We don't need a geriatric President (and I include both parties on that).

 

This whole useless degree stuff is a myth. The majority of students in colleges are in business or some kind of pre-medical profession (MD, Nurse, PT, OT, etc.). That said, the worthless degree students make 4 times as much noise as the rest combined.

 

Yup.

I see Boomers complaining about Millennial all the time.

Rarely see the opposite

And I'm a Boomer who thinks my own generation is and always has been completely self obsessed and selfish

And Gen Xers are just whiny prigs

 

Yep that's why you will be first against the wall come the revolution, lol

 

Attack of the snowflakes

 

When I attended College in the early 70s, the Professors did not push liberal or conservative ideology on us. And I grew up in Liberal Illinois. The taught the subject we or our parents where paying for them to teach. I never had any idea what the Professors Political views were. That's how it should be. But when my son's attended College in the 2000's they told me almost every Professor was Liberal and talked about Politics and against Conservatism quite often and didn't like a student pushing back. Quite different. The liberals remind me of Hitler's brainwashing of the young in Germany.

 

Boomers tend to be the biggest snowflakes around. Just look at this thread.

 

I don't like Boomers myself. And I'm one! We did good in the 60s and 70s. Best music there ever was and ever has been. And we put warmongers and the sexually repressed to shame. But then we went downhill. Can't say much about Gen X and Z because they allowed too much... stuff to happen in their watch. They failed when they were called to be the adolescent rebels and stop the nonsense. And disco??? Geesh! I'm all for Millennials! They're not taking crap on guns, climate change, equal rights .... Good for them! And they got Beyonce and Taylor Swift and Ariana and Bruno Mars... several pretty good ones...

Anyway... I think the world will do just fine in the hands of Millennials.

 

I respectfully disagree on about 2/3s of your post,

 

I figure it's like giving everybody the chance to be that grumpy old man down the street. He's the guy who can say whatever he wants, wear whatever he wants, and do whatever he wants because he's old and ain't going to change.

I'm growing into my grumpy old man phase quite easily, and actually enjoy the freedom it gives me. Sadly, I'm a little too old for social media. Yes, I have facebook, but it just pisses me off. It's a place where family and friends can stay in contact, which is cool with me because facebook is better than my guest bedroom. Twitter is a complete mystery to me, and the only reason I post here is because I am an old usenet dude from back in the day.

 

Your a living fossil like the rest of us in your age bracket.

 

LOL! This forum is more like this:



Except that the guy needs to look more angry. Couldn't find a good picture though when googling "old, angry man in front of computer" .

For full disclosure: I am 54, so not exactly spring chicken.

 

Ah! A Disco lover! Just kidding...

 

well your parents were correct. When they were growing up it probably was that way. But college wasn't available to everyone. So the job market was flooded with people with college degrees. Now that it is available to everyone the job market's flooded with people with college degrees

that's the thing, some people should go to college and get an education but some people should go into trades. I'm a tradesman.

My point is if you want to flip burgers for a living you can be successful doing that. In school they talked about it like it was a prison sentence.

 

Maybe more like this guy...



Of course, there are many variants.
https://www.politicsforum.org/flame-warriors/

 

These days I hear very commonly among even student advisors. "Go to college to figure out what you want to do". That is the stupidest advice you could ever give somebody.

That's like suggesting push a brand new BMW off a cliff once a year for 4 years until you figure out what you want to do.

Millennials are pissed because they followed shity advice. Some people direct their anger at baby boomers I don't think that's the right way to go. I think it needs to be directed at the education system. The most places you required to have a four-year degree to teach. So all these people that worked in schools went and got a four-year degree.

Then you got something that it's very common among boomers gen xers and millennials. They don't want to do work that they think is lowbrow. People say and I hear this from college graduates younger than me. "I went to college I shouldn't have to work like that."

That's arrogance and entitlement. So I think that spans the generations at least the group were talking about.

It was interesting when I was in high school how much my teachers looked down on me for the career I chose. And so that's what stupid people.

Trades aren't for everyone but neither is academics