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> Probably because Millennials grew up knowing there were wolves just outside the gates, and that your employer might throw you to them at any time [...] We don
by brandonmenc 12y ago
> Probably because Millennials grew up knowing there were wolves just outside the gates, and that your employer might throw you to them at any time [...] We don't know normal, so accordingly, we're not clinging to it.
Millennials need to learn some history.
A 52-year-old graduated high school in 1980. They grew up, then worked their first decade, during the economically scariest 20 year period between the Depression and the Recession.
Millennials don't even know what a pension is, let alone having to worry about losing one, or fear the Japanese taking over the world, including both the high-end and low-end manufacturing jobs along with Rockefeller Center.
It was pretty terrifying back then for your rank-and-file blue collar worker, and it didn't let up until the mid 90s. Anyone born around and after 1970 doesn't know "normal."
- refurb 12y agoThank you for providing some perspective. When I heard people say how hard Millennials have it I think to myself "harder than the 17 and 18 year olds who went off to fight in WW2?" or "harder than my grandfather who jumped on a freight train at the age of 16 to find work during the depression?"