They’re lazy, incompetent, disrespectful of their elders and far too entitled. They expect to have everything given to them on a silver platter and they get so disappointed when you don’t reward them with a trophy for every tiny little thing. Millennials are the worst. They’re ruining everything, from traditional department stores to the diamond industry. And they’ll will never be able to afford their own home if they keep going out to eat organic avocado toast. Yup, they’re definitely the worst.
Millennials have developed a rather bad rap in popular media. They’re being blamed for ruining the traditional 9-to-5 job, because they demand more flexibility in their schedules or they’re striking it on their own as entrepreneurs and startups. People say that they’ve killed romance with “hookup culture” and Tinder.
Older people scoff at millennials and their obsession with technology, how these 20-somethings have utterly destroyed the common decency of regular face-to-face interaction. Their fashion sense is terrible and their popular music is worse. But are millennials really ruining everything for everyone else?
As I discuss in the vlog above, the real heart of the matter is that older people have always developed some level of disdain for younger people. That’s how the whole “kids these days” line of thinking gets set into motion. And maybe it’s because I don’t really identify with “kids these days” anymore that I feel like I’m experiencing a midlife crisis instead. Maybe.
Many baby boomers will tell you that they worked as hard as they did all their lives so that their kids’ lives would be easier. Can you really blame millennials, then, if their lives really are easier? I’m fortunate in that I never took out a student loan, but I know how crippling college debt can be these days.
It’d probably help if millennials didn’t eat so much avocado toast though.
I’ve always rolled my eyes at people who scoff, ‘back in my day!’ kind of comments. Life changes and won’t be the same as the decade before. Also, we often tend to remember the good parts and the successes we’ve had in the past years. There will always be something to complain about with each new generation of people. My hope for my three kids is that I raise kind, involved, community minded people.
Bingo. I’d like to think that society (and technology) continues to move forward, not backward.
Yes there will always be something to complain about, but there is also something very concerning about the generations to come. Working in schools I have seen a huge shift in what children are like, to be honest, it’s terrifying.
I like Tamara’s honesty above. I agree with her! Some of the things my oldest daughter has been through or experienced at school makes me shake my head. Stuff like that would have never happened when I was in school.
Do you think it’s a result of or can be attributed to the prevailing culture? Something the school administration can address better? Shifting attitudes in parenting?
Very interesting. I do consider myself a millennial but I personally consider the entitled, give me everything generation to have started in 2000’s. We are in 2017 which means these babies are now 17 and I cannot even start to consider these kids adults or ready for life.
I think part of it has to do with kids growing up with the ever-present availability of instant gratification. Netflix, YouTube, Spotify. These are great services, to be sure, but they’ve spoiled us/them/everyone.