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I read the article and was completely unmoved. Again, I don’t think you realize this is the way the world works and has always worked. The young always bitch

I read the article and was completely unmoved. Again, I don’t think you realize this is the way the world works and has always worked. The young always bitch about being screwed over by their predecessors, bitch about income inequality, and wear T-shirts with the face of mass murderers like Che Guevara thinking they’re sticking it to “the man”. Then they finally realize they actually have to find their own way, which might be very different from what their parents did. And life moves on.

ivraatiems 9y ago
It's not whether you were moved or not, it's whether you even acknowledge that what the article presented is fact. I keep citing evidence, from the piece and elsewhere, that the challenges facing millennials are unique, bigger than in previous generations, and potentially devastating for society (of all ages) long-term, and you just keep coming back with "that's how the world has always worked." You're starting with your conclusion, then going backwards, so to me your logic seems to go: 1) Things are working how they always work. 2) If someone tells you that things are working differently, that can't be true, because things are working the way they always work. 3) Therefore, evidence that this is not in fact the same as how things always work should be ignored. Can you please respond to the evidence I and the article are giving - massive and rising inequality, lack of wage growth, unprecedented encumbrance with debt, and restructuring of corporate interest and benefit systems - and explain how it's how things have always worked? > Then they finally realize they actually have to find their own way, which might be very different from what their parents did. And life moves on. Who is to say that "change the system so this doesn't keep happening" can't be the way millennials are finding?
- tatersolid 9y ago
  > it's whether you even acknowledge that what the article presented is fact I do not accept the article as fact. Read the (very few, mostly on pull quote) references. They are cherry-picked stats, or from completely biased sources. Almost everything else in the article is completely un-cited. There are no dissenting viewpoints or statistics presented. It has no merit as a journalistic or academic work.

ivraatiems 9y ago

It's not whether you were moved or not, it's whether you even acknowledge that what the article presented is fact. I keep citing evidence, from the piece and elsewhere, that the challenges facing millennials are unique, bigger than in previous generations, and potentially devastating for society (of all ages) long-term, and you just keep coming back with "that's how the world has always worked." You're starting with your conclusion, then going backwards, so to me your logic seems to go: 1) Things are working how they always work. 2) If someone tells you that things are working differently, that can't be true, because things are working the way they always work. 3) Therefore, evidence that this is not in fact the same as how things always work should be ignored. Can you please respond to the evidence I and the article are giving - massive and rising inequality, lack of wage growth, unprecedented encumbrance with debt, and restructuring of corporate interest and benefit systems - and explain how it's how things have always worked? > Then they finally realize they actually have to find their own way, which might be very different from what their parents did. And life moves on. Who is to say that "change the system so this doesn't keep happening" can't be the way millennials are finding?

tatersolid 9y ago
> it's whether you even acknowledge that what the article presented is fact I do not accept the article as fact. Read the (very few, mostly on pull quote) references. They are cherry-picked stats, or from completely biased sources. Almost everything else in the article is completely un-cited. There are no dissenting viewpoints or statistics presented. It has no merit as a journalistic or academic work.