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Your comment embodies the millennial stereotype. There's a recession, therefore I can't be successful. The economy doesn't improve by magic, we need people cr
by hnal943 12y ago
Your comment embodies the millennial stereotype. There's a recession, therefore I can't be successful. The economy doesn't improve by magic, we need people creating wealth. And that may not be in their chosen field.
- _delirium 12y agoI don't think it's a very scientific approach to recommend that we focus on "drive" and "gumption" or something, rather than systemic analysis, when we want to understand economic behavior. Even sports have more or less given up their previously obsessive focus on "gut" and "clutch" and "will", in the face of sabermetrics.
- hnal943 12y agoAnd yet players still perform much better the year their contract is up. Motivation plays a role. If we want to look at the larger economic climate that's fine, but it's tautologically true that we can't solve unemployment if people refuse to work.
- scott_s 12y agoI think you're missing the larger observation: the expectation that children will move out of their parents homes around age 18 may have been a temporary phenomenon. I find it strange that some people would rather assume that an entire generation is uniquely incompetent, rather than assume that they're pretty much like all other human generations, but the environment in which they live has changed.
- hnal943 12y agoI don't believe that this generation is uniquely incompetent, nor do I believe that they are uniquely hampered from succeeding. I would be more swayed to your point that this is some sort of cultural shift towards multi-generational households if there weren't so much angsty finger-pointing from self-appointed millennial spokespeople.
- guard-of-terra 12y agoYou can be successful. I am. You just can't expect someone to be successful without giving them a hand. Outside of a few privileged areas like IT.