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Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are po
by lawlessone 7y ago
Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products.
Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados.
Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
- dogsgobork 7y agoIt's like how class warfare is only when the poor fight back.
- bgravinz 7y agoGenerations are not classes. They span classes.
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- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoThat was a simile.
- notacoward 7y agoThe group that's first to offend is rarely aware of it. The same phenomenon is readily observable in race and gender relations where "everything's fine" until the "uppity" out-group starts fighting back. It's a form of privilege, and "old white guy" is like the trifecta with "old" in there for a reason.
- hmschreck 7y agoThis is pretty much it. My generation has been called entitled, lazy, selfish, etc, for wanting the same things our parents were given, like a living wage, affordable college, or career stability. In what world is that friendly?
- creaturemachine 7y agoMmm there's that word again, "given."
- rco8786 7y agoPerhaps just replace it with “had access to”. Or perhaps just focus on the spirit of the statement and not pedantries over word choice.
- na85 7y agoCan't tell what point you're making, but when my brother left his job at Google our grandmother asked what that was going to do to his pension. As if companies paying pensions was still a thing. These people grew up when a factory job could support a family of four, and companies hired people with no experience and then paid actual benefits. Boomers benefited from very generous circumstances. To suggest they earned the postwar economic boom is laughably misguided.
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- creaturemachine 7y agoMy parents, I guess who were boomers, suffered from crushing debt, divorce, poverty, unstable work. Factory work killed two of my Grandfathers, COPD and asbestosis. But go on, tell us how Google ruined your Brother's future.
- na85 7y ago>But go on, tell us how Google ruined your Brother's future. I didn't write or imply this in any way. My point is that many boomers conveniently gloss over the fact that they benefited immensely from the economic climate of yesteryear, and the common refrain of millennials needing to just tug harder on their bootstraps isn't received well because of it.
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- swalsh 7y agoOn a side note related to this idea, I wonder if Millenials overcompensated by going to the extreme on the opposite side of the triangle (quantity, price, quality). On Saturday I went to a beer/wine store that's in a predominately young professional/student neighborhood. When I lived in the area about 8 years ago there were maybe 20 craft beer brands. Beer came in 6-packs, and was priced at about $11-15. Today, there's maybe 100 brands. Almost all come in 4-packs, and are priced between $15-$20.
- rco8786 7y ago$15 for a 4 pack is insanely expensive
- djsumdog 7y agoI don't think those are remotely related. Price increases may just be inflation and even 10 years ago you could find tons of craft beer stores with huge selections in cities big and small. (Beer is one of the easier small businesses to get into; still expensive but they tend to be less likely to fail if you get the consistency of batches right). Maybe that store just decided to expand from a small selection to attract more craft beer people. That's a really freaking weird conclusion to draw over the history of one bottle shop.
- Frondo 7y agoI don't know about that. My millennial friends, when we're buying beer, go for the 24-pack of keystone light. The craft beer's always a treat, like something you might get a four-pack once a month.
- enriquto 7y agowait, what's the problem with avocados?
- lawlessone 7y agooh you're in for a treat. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/australian-millionaire-millennials-avocado-toast-house https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/austral...
- enriquto 7y agoregular news are becoming indistinguishable to the onion
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- ohduran 7y agoPeople selling OK Boomer stickers like Pepsi selling the "Pepsi Generation". Old dog, same tricks.
- mieseratte 7y ago> Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. I think it's important to differentiate between "media-driven narrative" and real-world relations, though that line is a bit blurry. It seems the former often creates the latter. Right now I'm not sure that "Ok Boomer" is anything more than a meme.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoPeople do take it too far, as usual.
- mieseratte 7y agoAs always, the question is how many and to what degree.
- lidHanteyk 7y ago"Remember the USS Maine" was just a meme too. Don't underestimate the power of memes, boomer.
- mieseratte 7y agoNothing about what I wrote "underestimates the power of a meme". Don't forget to practice reading comprehension, lazy millenial.
- Clubber 7y agoThose were all divisive articles written by the same media companies trying to fill in ad space. They're playing both sides. Maybe it's time to stop taking many news articles at face value and realize they're trying to make a profit.