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Generational warfare waged via Robinhood. The video and comments here sum up a lot of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l1u036/wsb_gets_emo

Generational warfare waged via Robinhood. The video and comments here sum up a lot of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l1u036/wsb_gets_emotional_on_mad_money/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l1u036/wsb_...

safog 6y ago
Along this note, the new generational warfare is Gen Z vs Millenials. Gen Z posters are mostly tired of the millenial narrative of boo-hoo the system is rigged, I'm so poor, why won't someone give me free stuff and it's a meme to make fun of millenials on TikTok for saying this. I wonder how it'll go for them given they're mostly still in college / high school but we shall see. They've mostly graduated into a booming economy, got well paying jobs just as they graduated but that might all change in the next few years. I for one am pretty tired of all the doom and gloom inequality nonsense all the time. I did everything right and am not successful story doesn't resonate with me at all for one. Most people who went to college and chose a standard, decent major (business, law, medicine, engineering) are doing pretty well for themselves. Yes we had 2008 and things really sucked just as we were graduating, but so what? Lots of people (including me) have dug ourselves out of that deep career hole. Don't blame rich people for your nonexistent career. Even if you took away all of Jeff Bezos' wealth and wiped out college loans, the career you've built for yourself doesn't change.
- interstice 6y ago
  There's a bit of survivorship bias in this response, some eras are a lot less forgiving than others. It would be disingenuous to claim that hard work is the only factor for success.
  - safog 6y ago
    Yeah that's fair. I think I need some concrete data before making statements like these - In absolute numbers, Millenials haven't been hitting the financial milestones that their parents did (incomes, home ownership %, retirement savings etc.). If that's worth the non stop complaining, I have to figure out.
- at_a_remove 6y ago
  Meanwhile, occasionally Gen X raises its head from its apathy and wonders if the time for their generational warfare has slipped by.

safog 6y ago

Along this note, the new generational warfare is Gen Z vs Millenials. Gen Z posters are mostly tired of the millenial narrative of boo-hoo the system is rigged, I'm so poor, why won't someone give me free stuff and it's a meme to make fun of millenials on TikTok for saying this. I wonder how it'll go for them given they're mostly still in college / high school but we shall see. They've mostly graduated into a booming economy, got well paying jobs just as they graduated but that might all change in the next few years. I for one am pretty tired of all the doom and gloom inequality nonsense all the time. I did everything right and am not successful story doesn't resonate with me at all for one. Most people who went to college and chose a standard, decent major (business, law, medicine, engineering) are doing pretty well for themselves. Yes we had 2008 and things really sucked just as we were graduating, but so what? Lots of people (including me) have dug ourselves out of that deep career hole. Don't blame rich people for your nonexistent career. Even if you took away all of Jeff Bezos' wealth and wiped out college loans, the career you've built for yourself doesn't change.

interstice 6y ago
There's a bit of survivorship bias in this response, some eras are a lot less forgiving than others. It would be disingenuous to claim that hard work is the only factor for success.
- safog 6y ago
  Yeah that's fair. I think I need some concrete data before making statements like these - In absolute numbers, Millenials haven't been hitting the financial milestones that their parents did (incomes, home ownership %, retirement savings etc.). If that's worth the non stop complaining, I have to figure out.
at_a_remove 6y ago
Meanwhile, occasionally Gen X raises its head from its apathy and wonders if the time for their generational warfare has slipped by.