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As a millennial I reject that categorization and we need to stop using it. Millennial is too broad. I'm a millennial and I learned to program in the mid 90's fr
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
As a millennial I reject that categorization and we need to stop using it. Millennial is too broad. I'm a millennial and I learned to program in the mid 90's from actual paper books. I share almost nothing in common with the people graduating college right now.
Edit: Also, for every "life is hard" millennial I have met many hard working, extremely intelligent, and charitable ones. Some of whom need to work multiple jobs dealing with the fact that our generation has almost no upward mobility unless you do something like learn to code. The fact that a terrible houses cost amounts of money that years ago would get you a mansion (even when adjusted for inflation) and where spending $100k on college does not even remotely guarantee you a job. Where pensions don't exist and retirement is a pipe dream. Every millennial I know over 25 has been laid off, some multiple times.
Edit 2: furthermore, in the United States, my generation has never known a time where we were not at war. And we are the ones being sent to those wars.
- keithnz 9y agothe categorization is statistical representing common patterns, it's not defining the traits for all individuals. I don't live in the US... perhaps vote for someone who will help change it to a better system?
- throwaway2016a 9y agoI wasn't the one generalizing all millennials. The post I was replying to was. My post is specifically about not generalizing. Also, to think one person (the president) can magically fix decades of compounding problems is naive. It's also naive to think we are isolated from the rest of the world and we can magically unlink our economy from it. With that said, about 50% of millennials voted last election and 83% are registered to vote. So I'd say a large number of us did vote for the person we think will change things. Edit: and almost without exception the millennials I know who didn't vote did it because they felt neither candidate was acceptable.
- keithnz 9y agoyou were claiming that a generalization doesn't hold for specific cases... which will never invalidate a generalization, because a generalization works "in general" not for specific cases :) you only get to vote for the president?! do you live in a democracy where you can vote to get things changed? or perhaps people in america just like it that way. maybe it is naive, but other democratic countries are moving ahead with more progressive ideas.
- throwaway2016a 9y ago> you were claiming that a generalization doesn't hold for specific cases... which will never invalidate a generalization, because a generalization works "in general" not for specific cases :) Very true > you only get to vote for the president?! We vote for the president, senate, congress, and local representatives. We rarely vote for individual issues (like say Brexit) on a national level, those are usually decided for us. > do you live in a democracy where you can vote to get things changed? or perhaps people in america just like it that way. maybe it is naive, but other democratic countries are moving ahead with more progressive ideas America is a Constitutional Republic not a true democracy. We don't even get one vote per person. Our votes are broken up into statistical areas that are winner take all. And I can assure you that many Americans don't like it that way but it is very difficult to change in a two party system. Which is why many people (millennials more than any other group) are pushing to end the 2 party system.
- eosrei 9y agoIf it helps, according to some researchers, the people graduating college right now are not Millennials. They are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z