Millennials Share 30 Lies They Were Told When Growing Up And They Are Totally Relatable

It would certainly make life less stressful.

I noticed that only people who naver had any real money problems say that!

I remember a study (around ~2010) that found a salary of about $80,000 per person in the US was the ceiling for money which buys happiness. This is enough to eliminate worry from the average person's life - you can live in a safe area, you can send kids to a decent school, you can afford a reliable car, you can financially survive surprises like injury or illness, etc. Below that, those worries would dominate your life. Above that is entering into a game (capitalism) that is an endless chase and competition as people tend to spend the excess on things they don't need but will endlessly want. Food for thought.

It may never buy happiness for some, and having lived in a highly affluent part of the world, I can honestly say the super rich (not my family) and the super poor (my family) struggled the most. Middle class families did the best.

I can't think of a single problem I have that money wouldn't make go away.

Just as being able to learn and accept the truth about oneself is vital to growth and understanding, the same is true for one's own country. Too many rabid so called "patriots" view any criticism or condemnation as anti-American. You can't make anything better until you admit what is wrong.

Land of the free, home of the excessive student and medical debt.

Who is the best?

I’m french and as a child/teen, I was pretty obsessed with US like «best country, best people, so much glitter etc… ». Then I grew up, Europe isn’t THAT bad and USA is a shitty country

I wish we'd learn to emulate other countries' successful practises. Germany's education system springs to mind, where part of the process is to help school kids find their path toward either university or trade school (bear in mind tradespeople are highly valued in most of Europe).

Rectangle of knowledge knows all.

OTOH, being able to do math mentally is still a GREAT skill. (I can't tell you how many times i've told people with calculators, "No, that doesn't sound right" ... and it wasn't)

Which is quite amazing if you think about it.

Or hey, here's an idea: learn the times tables. Learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide with a pencil and piece of paper.

Even afore the phone was a major thing I showed my casio watch to which ever teacher spoke such bullshit

Lucky me. I was raised knowing that "Some people live to work and some people work to live. There's nothing wrong with either as long as you choose it and know it." My mom is and was a wise person.

My fist jobs was with an architect at whose office I was working six full days a week. When he heard that I was taking Italian lessons on the seventh day, he lectured me about how architecture must fill the entirety of an architect's life. Only a year later I wasn't working for him any more. By now I heardly work as an architect. But I did end up studying a year in Italy and still know and enjoy the Italian language.

Culture thing. We do not ask about jobs, or money, or religion, or political views…

It’s hard to move away from this when we spend most of our day working. This will change when we work to live and not live to work. I don’t know who came up with the idea that we need to work 5 days a week to survive, but it’s pretty bad.

That, and "have you met someone/are you seeing someone?". Well, guess what, my worth as a person is not dependant on what job I have/if I have a job, and whether or not I'm single.

I like experiencing a lot of different places. I've already had more jobs than my mum.

Ok, this may sound bad, but if I can be my own boss, run my own company, etc, I might not want to retire. My plan is to work my entire life on things I WANT to work on, and during the time I am supposed to retire, I want to form a media company.

I'm in the military and this still doesn't count. Take care of yourself. Your company doesn't need your loyalty.

Be loyal to you company, IF they are loyal to you.

Yep. all lies

I probably will regret everything when I am older

I've read thousands of books, seen countless hours of tv, spend ages playing computer games. Enjoyed it while doing it, why would I ever regret it?

Computer Engineers: ...............I get money for that......

I watched so much TV growing up. SO. MUCH. No regrets.

"That computer is responsible for the home I live in, the food on my table, and the car I drive. OK, Boomer."

Wouldn't it be lovely if going to college was something one did simply because they desired higher learning? I'm Gen X and couldn't afford college so I started working right out of high school. After working my way up, I have the same high paying, mostly satisfying job as many, many uni graduates but I don't have any of that degree debt. While I don't have regrets per se, if I could do it all over again, I'd have chosen a trade. Electricians will ALWAYS be needed! ;)

Depends on your degree and on the college. If you have Major in Gender Studies from Community College, don't act so surprised if you end up flipping burgers

You can, it may not be a good job in the field you want tho

The government should rank colleges by job placement and income after graduation. Those that do well get increased funding. We don't need to be funding colleges with giant athletic programs that do nothing but provide Saturday background noise on TV. High school is over. It's time to learn actual skills.

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My father was always deeply disappointed we didn't have flying cars like he was promised in the 1950s.

We have flying cars, but they are not in common use. The problem is not in having them, but the widescale implementation. In years past, they did not take into account the problems having millions of travelers being airborne would create. We have far too many wrecks on the ground, taking it vertical at our current level of tech would only increase the body count. Consider: a car loses power, plunging into the programmed lane paths below it, taking down and entangling several cars on its descent until they all smash into the ground. Given that the cars would have to be built light to fly with any kind of efficiency, everyone would likely die in either the initial impact, or the impact of hitting the ground. Also consider that strong winds would cause each individual car to drift, and given its size and engine power, would be difficult to keep all cars in their "lane", if at all.