Frustrated with the Millennials

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That article was very interesting. It made me think if Family Ties was still going and Alex Keaton had a son that son would be a left leaning millenial who quarrels with his dad and agrees with his grandfather.

The Family Ties situation is non-typical as it depicts early baby-boomers who also had kids at an early age, so they have a Gen-X son. I am, I suppose, a mid-baby-boomer (born in 1952) and my kids are Millennials, so the article definitely applies to me. My brother-in-law is a Gen-Xer whose kids are young adolescents. I have no idea what that generation will be like as adults.

Two things from the article that made the biggest impression on me:
1.) It says Gen-Xers (in the US of course) are considerably more comfortable being in positions of authority than are either Baby Boomers or Millennials.
2.) It points out that most of those involved in the decisions on Wall Street, that led to the Great Recession, were Gen-Xers. Now that could be mostly attributed to the fact that they would have been at the appropriate age to be in a position to make those decisions. But it could also be that those decisions were heavily influenced by the naked greed that was fashionable in the US at the time they were growing up i.e. the philosophy espoused by Gordon Gekko in the Wall Street film.

I am just going to say it now, us millennial are somewhat the product of previous generations. And we're just trying to make the world a better place and figure our lives out just like all the past generations.

Now this is the first sensible thing I've heard about Mille oaks!

I see. One thing I found a bit strange in the article that you would have better related to is when it described millenials and their baby boomer parents. I have Gen-X parents. I was born when they were in their 20s. I think of the Baby Boomers as being my grandparets generation. My grandparents are slightly earlier than the baby boom. The war ended when they were in kindergarten.

My dad is like a failed version of Alex Keaton. Very ambitious but none of his plans ever bear fruit. He's now living in poverty. My mum is nothing like Alex Keaton. She never had an atom of ambition yet she can manage her finances in better. She's living in relative comfort.

I'm sure mum used to watch Family Ties. It's strange to think she was a teenager for more than half of the 80s. It seems so recent.

When people write or say stuff like this (which is quite often for some reason) I am usually under the impression you either want something from the person you are saying this to, or, in your own mind, you're coming down from your pedestal in the clouds to come and show the younger 'mortal' generations the ways of life. I don't know if you consider me a Millennial or not but I find this sort of talk as being condescending and arrogant. As far as I know you could be either making it up or playing fiddle; I can think of plenty of things that people go through that are worse than this. It's one thing to have had hardships in life, it's another to use them as a club to beat someone else over the head especially if that person had nothing to do with you.

For the record, I grew up in a hostile dysfunctional community with no real connection to the outside world, schools that were garbage, employers that are crooked and a state government that borders on third world corrupt.

Yeah, I was feeling frustrated when I created this thread. People do rely on the internet for information, some more critically than others. But yeah, generalizations are bad. My apologies.