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Gen Y's and Baby Boomers are the two largest examples of irrationality that this nation has ever seen. Gen Y for thinking that you can just do whatever you wan

Gen Y's and Baby Boomers are the two largest examples of irrationality that this nation has ever seen. Gen Y for thinking that you can just do whatever you want and expect a high salary for it. I look at my peers from high school and can't believe some of the entitlement issues they have. Boomers for thinking that they could continuously f* over an entire generation with their robbing of social welfare systems and expecting people with no right to vote to pick up the tab 30 years into the future. When payroll taxes reach 20%, Social Security Recipients will become the next Westboro Baptists.

jiggy2011 14y ago
To be fair some of the feelings of entitlement and the sense of "do whatever you want" of Gen Y come from the boomers. When growing up I remember being told from an early age by adults that my generation would have it great, their generation was putting everything in place for peace and prosperity such as access to education, better medicine and technology etc. The overriding message was really just to work hard and everything would come good. It didn't matter whether you studied the liberal arts, technology or just got a job straight out of school and worked your way up. Now Gen Y have grown up and complain "getting a job with liveable pay and reasonable stability is hard, and I have a masters!" they get told "the world doesn't owe you a living!" which is technically true but non helpful.
- vacri 14y ago
  The overriding message was really just to work hard and everything would come good. On the other hand, every gen before Y was told "just work hard", no light at the end of the tunnel, no 'it gets better'.
slurry 14y ago
Really? You'd think the generation that let World War I happen, or the many generations that practiced lynching as not merely a means of punishment but a form of entertainment, or the generation that thought Andrew Jackson's bank policy was a good idea, would have us beat. I would be more worried if your peers were satisfied with drudge work for low wages. No kind of progress is possible if you're content to live in the gutter. Also, if wages were rising, social security taxes wouldn't have to go up at all.

jiggy2011 14y ago

To be fair some of the feelings of entitlement and the sense of "do whatever you want" of Gen Y come from the boomers. When growing up I remember being told from an early age by adults that my generation would have it great, their generation was putting everything in place for peace and prosperity such as access to education, better medicine and technology etc. The overriding message was really just to work hard and everything would come good. It didn't matter whether you studied the liberal arts, technology or just got a job straight out of school and worked your way up. Now Gen Y have grown up and complain "getting a job with liveable pay and reasonable stability is hard, and I have a masters!" they get told "the world doesn't owe you a living!" which is technically true but non helpful.

vacri 14y ago
The overriding message was really just to work hard and everything would come good. On the other hand, every gen before Y was told "just work hard", no light at the end of the tunnel, no 'it gets better'.

slurry 14y ago

Really? You'd think the generation that let World War I happen, or the many generations that practiced lynching as not merely a means of punishment but a form of entertainment, or the generation that thought Andrew Jackson's bank policy was a good idea, would have us beat. I would be more worried if your peers were satisfied with drudge work for low wages. No kind of progress is possible if you're content to live in the gutter. Also, if wages were rising, social security taxes wouldn't have to go up at all.