Stress Mess: 3 In 5 Millennials Say Life More Stressful Now Than Ever Before

Oh gag me with a spoon. The "we are more special than all other generations" is so laughable. How would they know how stressful life was in past generations they didn't live it. More stressful than during WW2? Vietnam war. The Great Depression? The Cold War?

"Smartphones and digital technology are supposed to make our lives easier, but for young adults, it seems that things may only be getting tougher — and for a slew of reasons. According to one recent survey, about 3 out of 5 millennials (58%) feel life is more stressful right now than ever before.

In fact, the survey of 2,000 American millennials, commissioned by CBD oil company Endoca, reveals that one-third of millennials believe their lives are more stressful than the average person’s life."
https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-millennials-life-more-stressful-than-ever-before/

 

Snowflakes who still live at home.

 

No link to the actual “survey” but a link to the website of the commercial company which funded it. I have zero faith in their interpretation of the results given their motive was clearly to generate any kind of “controversial” headline to attract attention. The statement in the headline isn’t even consistent with the statement in the body of the article.

This is the actual “fake news” which continues to be propagated for money.

 

Exactly.

Fake News.

Is it any wonder that the RW falls for this BS Hook, Line, and Sinker and then rushes here to post the Fake News BS?

If course, that "survey" is BS.:smfh:

 

Here's an article about Millennials and financial stress:
https://www.creditkarma.com/insights/i/millennials-burnt-out-finances-survey/

One thing you people in the older generation do have to remember is that housing costs are much more than they used to be.
And there's more pressure to have to go to college to get the same jobs that were available to people without college before, and college is a lot more expensive.
So many Millennials are under the additional weight of student debt. $20,000 can be a lot of debt when you're just starting your career and barely earning anything, and have to pay rent. Rent that is more than many people's mortgage payments these days.

Some additional information about stress on Millennials can be found in this thread:
US suicide rate has risen dramatically

Another thread/article about Millennial financial stress:
Millennials' Chronic Health Problems Will Limit Their Lifetime Earnings

Apparently all this stress is leading to medical issues.

 

Another older thread: Homeless Millennials

 

Have you taken a look at what an apartment in your area costs these days? (and all the additional fees and expenses that are not included in the upfront price)

 

Since this thread is in Elections and Campaigns, let's not forget what message Biden had for Millennials on this:


(skip to the 1:00 minute mark)

"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are - give me a break!
No, no, I have no empathy for it."

(In Biden's defense, maybe his supporters would argue he wasn't specifically referring to economics and finances? But again, that's sort of the point, he isn't focusing on economics; instead he concerns himself more with social issues)

 

Well with you being so out of touch with the experiences of the younger generation, don't be surprised when they vote Socialist. The younger generation is the future.

 

And the future is bleak.

 

What makes you assume I am out of touch? Maybe it is they who are out of touch since they weren't even born then.

 

Life is more stressful during a global pandemic than it was when there wasn't a global pandemic?

Whooda thunk it?!

 

There are also quite a few articles about how the Millennial generation is being affected more, because of the types of jobs that they tend to have.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/4/8/21211993/coronavirus-recession-millennials-covid-19

Millennials hit hardest in this economy

The COVID-19 crisis has led to major changes in savings and spending behavior, but some generations are much more affected than others, according to a report issued Wednesday by Hearts & Wallets.

While all generations have seen their goals and expectations altered as a result of the pandemic, millennials might be the most affected, with that generation showing by far the biggest change in employment and plans to purchase homes or new cars, the report found.

Unemployment has hit millennials particularly hard, Varas said. Fifty-one percent of millennials surveyed by the firm said they have either lost their jobs or are furloughed without pay. An additional 10% are furloughed with pay, and another 2% said they have had their work hours reduced because of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, about 15% of Gen Xers have been laid off or furloughed without pay and 10% have had their hours cut back. Among baby boomers, 7% have lost their jobs or are furloughed without income, according to the report.
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https://www.investmentnews.com/economy-hits-millennials-hit-hardest-191595

 

Ayuh,...... Bull,..... The numbers we use today are bigger, but the value for value are pretty much the same,......

 

Then . . . Whammo! Dear millennials, you were complaining about stress before? Now here's some real world stress for you that's somewhat comparable to being drafted for a war or told to sink or swim during a Great Depression or whatever. Covid-19 brought to you by those great Marxists inside Communist China. Try purchasing your electronic toys or engaging in all your favorite activities or gathering into peer groups for emotional validation now.

Welcome to REAL . . . stress while you wonder if your job is still going to exist once the governor of your state stops dicking around and STARTS to re-open the economy. Now THAT . . . sucks. You are now . . . finally . . . adults.

 

And the starting annual salary for the same entry level position I held in 1986 has doubled.

 

And when I first moved out and got my own apartment I made $124 a week. Have you looked what even minimum wage pays these days?

 

perhaps they should relocate to rural america, if they can't cope in the big cities (which are run by those silly dems that oppress them, yet they keep voting for them

 

Honestly, do the math. Compare the ratio of minimum wage to rent then to the ratio of minimum wage to rent today.

 

You do the math but don't tell me I had the life of Riley when I entered the workforce $124 was a week of minimum wage. Today it's $300. I had to share rent with roommates.

 

I'm not saying things were easy for your generation. I realize things were not all rosy.
I'm just saying, in many ways, things are even more difficult for the newest generation. And people in the older generation don't realize that; they just make the automatic assumption that everything must somehow still be the same as what they experienced. Even though that was many decades ago.

It's a very different experience for a younger person trying to seek their first job, or get their foot on the career ladder, if they don't already have prior experience.
And of course when they are renting. The majority of older people are not seeing the same side of the job market that the majority of younger people are seeing.

Anyway, with so many clueless in the older generation, they are going to be surprised what direction the younger generation wants to take the country in.

 

Read the OP the millennials are. What exactly is more difficult? When I sought my first job we didn't have the internet where you could search for jobs why do you think it was easier to get a job back then. I moved 1000 miles to seek better job opportunity, me and my Chevy Vega pulling a U-Haul with $300 in my pocket. Think that was easy. The cluelessness is on the younger generations who have no idea what it was like back then, I have the perspective of both. What I am surprised about is how snowflake the younger generations have become compared to mine and want to take the country to where everything is handed to them.

 

Internet ads are two-way street. Yes, it is easier to find job openings, but there is also more potential competition for those job openings.

I actually started a thread about that topic here: online job ads have forced professional workers to become nomadic

 

If things were so hard back then, then maybe you can imagine what it might have been like if things had gotten just a little bit more difficult.
It might be the difference between barely being able to make it and not being able to make it.

I get that younger people have always suffered, trying to establish their place in life. That is has probably never been easy.
I'm just saying, things don't have to become that much more difficult to turn that into a problem. A little bit harder than difficult quickly starts getting into impossible level territory. The numbers don't have to have changed that much for the new generation to really suffer.

 

failed logic...
they use the baseline of only 30% of the income is to be for housing & the average price of rentals/homes. that's biased logic to fit that agenda to increase wages.
a minimum wage earner is able to afford a 2 bedroom home/rental it'll just be a higher percentage of their earnings. this has been true for many decades. that is why minimum wage earners need to look for basement apartments like we did...

the truth about the minimum wage vs housing charade:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwor...-apartment-so-why-should-it-now/#4fa89c3720d8