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5 Comics That Reveal What People Think Millennials Are Like Vs What They’re Actually Like
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Many people think of millennials as spoiled kids who were born into privilege and have every opportunity handed to them on a plate, but as you can see from these perceptive and thought-provoking comics by Karina Farek for CollegeHumor, that's simply not the case. The truth is that many millennials face just as many problems as the rest of us, from struggling to find employment in an increasingly competitive job market to trying to earn enough money to pay the rent each month. Do these comics resonate with you? Then let us know in the comments below!
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Only 5 comics? And we should be impressed? Typical millennial... :-P
Calm down, guys. I'm pretty sure the comment was a joke. Look - there's even a smiley at the end. :-D
BC it's the same joke repeated.
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Maybe the artist was too busy doing "real work", or attending interviews.
ha ha nice one Daria.. Though I think (hope) it was a joke
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Yeah, attending interviews and being rejected for being an entitled brat.
People complaining about millennials make for some *pretty* hilarious headlines. "Lazy millennial bowl-haters may be hurting big cereal's bottom line" "Why Aren't Millennials Buying Diamonds, The Economist Asks" ("because we're already struggling with crippling debt and ridiculous wages when we get out of school," answer the millennials)
Laury M. If I could I would upvote you ten times
Every generation goes through this. The problem is that millennials don't think they should have to go through it.
Why are you in debt? Because you buy things you don't need or can't afford but think you deserve anyway.
Why are we in debt? Because wages have not followed inflation, and that includes both minimum wage which is still ridiculously deep under the poverty line, and the fact that the price of higher education, without which better paying jobs are often inaccessible, has skyrocketed even faster and higher than any living expenses. You don't get thousands of dollars in debt to get an education? You're likely condemned to wonder how to make ends meet every month. You do get in debt? You still struggle to find those famed decently paying jobs that have turned into temporary, badly paid positions to make more money for the shareholders, and you still wonder how you're going to make ends meet, but with a loan payment in addition to normal expenses.
Maybe because it'll cost me almost half a million to put myself through a decent school.
Or they buy things they're told they need to make a living (ie, an education).
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Serious question: is it typical for a generation to be concerned with what the previous generation(s) think about them? I mean it's a given that every older generation since the dawn of time had thought that the next generation was weaker/worse/not up to snuff, but doesn't the younger generation usually dismiss this with smug superiority, or at least quietly ignore it? I might be wrong but this butthurt over what your parents/grandparents think about you seems to be a new phenomenon...
The issue is not that they're complaining. The issue is that they're vastly complaining about things that their generation have engineered and/or had a huge hand in creating. "I had a house at 25 without a diploma!" Big fucking congratulations. Wages have stalled, college education costs have skyrocketed and we're heading towards ANOTHER housing bubble. And WE are not the one who caused it. If someone broke both of your legs and gave you only one crutch, would you just disregard the fact that it's calling you lazy?
Rather than being concerned about what the eldery generation thinks, it's more like how they actually perceive us as lazy and privileged snowflakes without actually researching how it really is. My mom would regularly low key assert to me how we have all the chances and opportunities and it's literally just us being too lazy to work and she can't comprehend why her kids don't find work or any field they're interested in.Now, that generation('60s-80's) does not quite understand that the higher birth rate and globalization causes people =/= amount of jobs,trending fields won't last forever, most majors are...literally just nice to look at but chances are that you can brag about them on tumblr at best and most workplaces require experience that you just don't get unless you work for free only for a low chance to actually get that job. It's tricky.
awwww........each generation thinks their struggles are unique to them
Sometimes it is. For example, people who grew in 50's and 60's wonder why student's loan is so big of a problem and ask whether students do get a odd job to collect the money for their tuition, unaware that in the last 40 years, tuition costs increased fivefold and it usually in the ballpark of an average wage (i.e. to support himself, a prospective student should have not a gig at serving tables, but an average full-time professional job). Positions requiring high skills are already manned by people who graduated 20 years ago, and simple job that could act as springboard have been already outsourced abroad. None of this were order of the day back then, when India was still a British colony and China was enigmatic commieland, so there was plenty of jobs around. Times change, and politicians are rarely ready for this.
I think the point is though the criticism millennials get from the generation previously in particular for being spoilt and that's not true. Millennials are not crying for sympathy as the life we all live is the only one we truly know, but it is saying that it Is not the bed of roses older people think it is.
No, not really.it's just that too often the older generation thinks that the younger struggles because they're lazy
Hahaha, true that XD
That's so true! But the problem is that OTHERS think they have no struggles at all.
Only 5 comics? And we should be impressed? Typical millennial... :-P
Calm down, guys. I'm pretty sure the comment was a joke. Look - there's even a smiley at the end. :-D
BC it's the same joke repeated.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Maybe the artist was too busy doing "real work", or attending interviews.
ha ha nice one Daria.. Though I think (hope) it was a joke
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Yeah, attending interviews and being rejected for being an entitled brat.
People complaining about millennials make for some *pretty* hilarious headlines. "Lazy millennial bowl-haters may be hurting big cereal's bottom line" "Why Aren't Millennials Buying Diamonds, The Economist Asks" ("because we're already struggling with crippling debt and ridiculous wages when we get out of school," answer the millennials)
Laury M. If I could I would upvote you ten times
Every generation goes through this. The problem is that millennials don't think they should have to go through it.
Why are you in debt? Because you buy things you don't need or can't afford but think you deserve anyway.
Why are we in debt? Because wages have not followed inflation, and that includes both minimum wage which is still ridiculously deep under the poverty line, and the fact that the price of higher education, without which better paying jobs are often inaccessible, has skyrocketed even faster and higher than any living expenses. You don't get thousands of dollars in debt to get an education? You're likely condemned to wonder how to make ends meet every month. You do get in debt? You still struggle to find those famed decently paying jobs that have turned into temporary, badly paid positions to make more money for the shareholders, and you still wonder how you're going to make ends meet, but with a loan payment in addition to normal expenses.
Maybe because it'll cost me almost half a million to put myself through a decent school.
Or they buy things they're told they need to make a living (ie, an education).
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Serious question: is it typical for a generation to be concerned with what the previous generation(s) think about them? I mean it's a given that every older generation since the dawn of time had thought that the next generation was weaker/worse/not up to snuff, but doesn't the younger generation usually dismiss this with smug superiority, or at least quietly ignore it? I might be wrong but this butthurt over what your parents/grandparents think about you seems to be a new phenomenon...
The issue is not that they're complaining. The issue is that they're vastly complaining about things that their generation have engineered and/or had a huge hand in creating. "I had a house at 25 without a diploma!" Big fucking congratulations. Wages have stalled, college education costs have skyrocketed and we're heading towards ANOTHER housing bubble. And WE are not the one who caused it. If someone broke both of your legs and gave you only one crutch, would you just disregard the fact that it's calling you lazy?
Rather than being concerned about what the eldery generation thinks, it's more like how they actually perceive us as lazy and privileged snowflakes without actually researching how it really is. My mom would regularly low key assert to me how we have all the chances and opportunities and it's literally just us being too lazy to work and she can't comprehend why her kids don't find work or any field they're interested in.Now, that generation('60s-80's) does not quite understand that the higher birth rate and globalization causes people =/= amount of jobs,trending fields won't last forever, most majors are...literally just nice to look at but chances are that you can brag about them on tumblr at best and most workplaces require experience that you just don't get unless you work for free only for a low chance to actually get that job. It's tricky.
awwww........each generation thinks their struggles are unique to them
Sometimes it is. For example, people who grew in 50's and 60's wonder why student's loan is so big of a problem and ask whether students do get a odd job to collect the money for their tuition, unaware that in the last 40 years, tuition costs increased fivefold and it usually in the ballpark of an average wage (i.e. to support himself, a prospective student should have not a gig at serving tables, but an average full-time professional job). Positions requiring high skills are already manned by people who graduated 20 years ago, and simple job that could act as springboard have been already outsourced abroad. None of this were order of the day back then, when India was still a British colony and China was enigmatic commieland, so there was plenty of jobs around. Times change, and politicians are rarely ready for this.
I think the point is though the criticism millennials get from the generation previously in particular for being spoilt and that's not true. Millennials are not crying for sympathy as the life we all live is the only one we truly know, but it is saying that it Is not the bed of roses older people think it is.
No, not really.it's just that too often the older generation thinks that the younger struggles because they're lazy
Hahaha, true that XD
That's so true! But the problem is that OTHERS think they have no struggles at all.