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5 Comics That Reveal What People Think Millennials Are Like Vs What They’re Actually Like
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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With the exception of the lobster, the right panel could also just say, "I need this." How are you supposed to apply for jobs and schedule interviews if you don't have access to the internet at the very least. Or seriously, try telling a potential employer that you don't have a phone. Also, cash? Yea. For rent/mortgage payments, student loans, etc.
I feel like both of these depict millennials. I mean it's not even necessarily that I DESERVE them, it's that in today's society, it is almost impossible to live without money, computers, and phones (and lobsters too, why not haha). So yeah, to an extent, I feel like I should deserve them if society will punish me for not having them.
Well, maybe in your country, education is "free", but in Korea, mine costed more than 3,000,000 KRW per semester, now multiply this by 8. Guess why I didn't go for a Master degree. There's millions of youth like me, or in a worse situation even, around the "modernised civilised world". So, please, don't combine the word "just" with things such as "get an education", "get a job", "get a life" and all these things needing too many social requirements that are not entirely something the individual can control.
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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
Load More Replies... 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
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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.
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In today's climate, I am shocked Millennial's are able to function at all and it isn't their fault either. It is our economy that is holding them all back. No available jobs and the ones that are out there either demand years of experience, demand college degrees or worse yet, do not pay a livable wage. Add to that, the high costs of rent, food and other necessities and it's no small wonder so many "kids" are still living at home or having to move back home with their parents!
Interestingly, the whole "they think they're entitled" thing was said about Gen X ... and baby boomers ... and the Flappers ... and probably everyone back to ancient Greece.
Yup, exactly. Also, it is funny when people say "the youth nowadays", as if young people from the outback, city-dwellers, artisans and students had the same problems. Also, it gets pretty hilarious when Americans try to use such labels to denote people outside US. Yes, sure, people born in the Communist country who witnessed the great political mess-up of early 90's and entered the workforce in new, free-market economy face the same problems as kids who were born in times of Carter and began working during Clinton's administration :)
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Why do millennials think that any of us that aren't millennials think bout them at all? We too are all too busy trying to make a living & get health care and we've got kids to raise too. Don't assume everything is about you.
Because non-millennials keep putting out headlines that are literally about us? Like those things in the comics, are things we have been literally told as a generation. Good for you if that's not your opinion, but then your situation is not the same as everyone else from your generation. "Don't assume everything is about you."
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Where's the rest? This can't be all. I'm a boomer but I'm tired of all the c**p Millennials get. It's not their fault they can't afford to live on their own. My nieces are millennials and are busting their asses just to get by.
I feel like these pictures are describing two different types of millennials. There definitely are some millennials who have attitudes like those depicted on the left side... But as a millennial myself, I definitely feel most of our on the right half. And also, sometimes millennials are a bit of both sides. For example, yeah I won't deny I wish I had easier access to better phone's and faster internet access sometimes, but like, man it is HARD to afford stuff :(
*are (sorry to any grammar police patrolling the comments)
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Not affording healthcare and not being able to pay rent seems more like a US thing than a Millennial thing to be honest.
There's always the exception to the rule. It only takes a few to make everyone else look bad...ie) the Hippies of my generation who went many steps too far....
To be honest, in all 5 cases, I've seen both be true. As a millennial, I see a persisting issue of respect for the working class from people in our age group from people growing up in bourgeois environments, while proselytizing rather extreme Marxist views- while the rest of us struggle to have hope for the week after next, and are too busy working for low wages to bother with socioeconomic grandstanding that the bourgeois kids do to make their daddy angry.
As a citizen of a country that virtually bans full-time employment contracts that do not include 401k plan and health insurance I'm sometimes amazed how young people tend to idolize such solutions. They work in small countries that were already rich before introducing social security. In bigger and less fortunate ones (especially post-communist countries), things are not so bright. First thing - taxation can be crippling, in Central Europe it is usually in the ballpark of 40% for income tax, plus about 20% VAT on all products and services, with the average wage of 1/4 of average US wage. Now imagine introducing such solutions country-wide in USA, where states can vary wildly. Not an easy task, so no wonder changes are slow.
I wouldn't say young adults and children now a days are spoiled, I think we get coddled way too much.
Both left & right pictures are true depending on the individual. Lack of experience was always a problem for the employer( ever since the baby boomer's time), so we have all been there , being underpaid & all... Be positive , have patience ,don't give up hope & everything will work out fine eventually guys ✌✌✌✌✌!
1: If the job market is flooded with stupid people with art degrees, the employer is spoiled for choice. simple reality that you should have considered before you went it a s****y field. 2: Some healthcare options are quite cheap and if you had a cheaper phone or didn't subscribe to premium cable channels and eat out nightly you can afford them. Driving yourself to the hospital, wtf that's called normal. 3: A living wage for a single person is quite low, but she wants an affluent lifestyle, not a living wage. 4: No one has to "accept" anyone, never mind the delusions of the mentally ill 5: How about you work hard and earn what you are demanding at these protests?
Well, Phil D has OBVIOUSLY never ever ever been on modern minimum wage in his entire life. You can pick em out by what they say. You clearly have no idea what it's like. I WAS going to refute each point individually, but that would be too long of a message for this site to allow purely because of the amount of s**t I would have to explain to you for you to even have a shot in hell of understanding. But rest assured, I CAN refute every single point you just said quite easily. I just tried to, except for the damn comment length limit. You literally could not BE more wrong, dude. Everything you said was incorrect, and REEKS of "I have no idea what poverty is like, and am an a*****e because of it".
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Haha yeah right, I work with nothing but 18 to 25 year olds. None of these are true...
I'm a millennial and so is my partner apparently. The difference between the two of us. I went to college and ended up struggling, he worked his way up (there is an age gap) but still he own two properties and I don't live with my parents because he had the deposit. I'm lucky I know but really the point is collage may have put me at a disadvantage
Did you take it into an account when choosing school or job? College is only an opportunity to get some specific knowledge that can be easily obtained from different sources. It doesn't guarantee a job, let alone a good job. The problem is that between the popularity of higher education and demographic boom, the increase in number of positions requiring higher education is lower than the increase of well-educated people. In other words, the supply is higher than demand. I'm not an American, hence my question - did recent decades saw a large surge of university graduates and the depreciation of artisans (machinists, plumbers, carpenters) who were considered 'menial workers'? We faced such changes here some time ago (let's say, 20 years back) and now it is not uncommon that welder or builder (even self-taught) makes more than a doctor with few years of experience.
Load More Replies... I hate to say this but the picture on the left is a good majority of what younger people are like today. Mommy and Daddy pay for everything so they can go to college. Here's a brand new car for you sweetheart, you can live here rent free, let me pay your car insurance because you need to study. I have had a job since I was 15. I live on my own, I pay for my own car/insurance and apartment, and I have a stable job. Plus starting school soon.. Not everyone is like that picture up there but a good majority.
I went to college for 5 years. During that entire time, I found a few people who's parents paid for tuition and that was it, or half of tuition. During my ENTIRE TIME in college I found two (TWO!!) people who had parent's paying their way. The rest of us, end up at least a couple grand in debt and even with a damn bachelor's degree in science, I can't get an f--king job paying anything but a dollar above minimum wage. While I have to make student loan payments, car payments, insurance payments, oh and pay for health insurance because there's no way in hell any employer is going to pay for benefits on someone without experience and "just" a degree. BUT! You can't get expierience because NO ONE WILL HIRE YOU WITHOUT EXPERIENCE. So you get an unpaid internship while incurring more debt, so you have a sliver of a f--king chance to get a decent paying job. And even then, like previously mentioned, wages have stalled and education costs have skyrocketed.
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Every one of these is an indictment of "millennial" thinking. None of them enhance liberty, but require others to provide for their benefit. If you don't see it, then you are a "millennial" and a socialist. Healthcare LITERALLY is not a "right" Employment is LITERALLY not a "right" Any sort of standard renumeration for any employment is LITERALLY not a "right" Your "acceptance" is LITERALLY not a "right"
You realize that if we are denied bathroom access, we're essentially being denied access to public spaces for more than an hour or two, right?
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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
Load More Replies... 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
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... In today's climate, I am shocked Millennial's are able to function at all and it isn't their fault either. It is our economy that is holding them all back. No available jobs and the ones that are out there either demand years of experience, demand college degrees or worse yet, do not pay a livable wage. Add to that, the high costs of rent, food and other necessities and it's no small wonder so many "kids" are still living at home or having to move back home with their parents!
Interestingly, the whole "they think they're entitled" thing was said about Gen X ... and baby boomers ... and the Flappers ... and probably everyone back to ancient Greece.
Yup, exactly. Also, it is funny when people say "the youth nowadays", as if young people from the outback, city-dwellers, artisans and students had the same problems. Also, it gets pretty hilarious when Americans try to use such labels to denote people outside US. Yes, sure, people born in the Communist country who witnessed the great political mess-up of early 90's and entered the workforce in new, free-market economy face the same problems as kids who were born in times of Carter and began working during Clinton's administration :)
Load More Replies... Why do millennials think that any of us that aren't millennials think bout them at all? We too are all too busy trying to make a living & get health care and we've got kids to raise too. Don't assume everything is about you.
Because non-millennials keep putting out headlines that are literally about us? Like those things in the comics, are things we have been literally told as a generation. Good for you if that's not your opinion, but then your situation is not the same as everyone else from your generation. "Don't assume everything is about you."
Load More Replies... Where's the rest? This can't be all. I'm a boomer but I'm tired of all the c**p Millennials get. It's not their fault they can't afford to live on their own. My nieces are millennials and are busting their asses just to get by.
I feel like these pictures are describing two different types of millennials. There definitely are some millennials who have attitudes like those depicted on the left side... But as a millennial myself, I definitely feel most of our on the right half. And also, sometimes millennials are a bit of both sides. For example, yeah I won't deny I wish I had easier access to better phone's and faster internet access sometimes, but like, man it is HARD to afford stuff :(
*are (sorry to any grammar police patrolling the comments)
Load More Replies... Not affording healthcare and not being able to pay rent seems more like a US thing than a Millennial thing to be honest.
There's always the exception to the rule. It only takes a few to make everyone else look bad...ie) the Hippies of my generation who went many steps too far....
To be honest, in all 5 cases, I've seen both be true. As a millennial, I see a persisting issue of respect for the working class from people in our age group from people growing up in bourgeois environments, while proselytizing rather extreme Marxist views- while the rest of us struggle to have hope for the week after next, and are too busy working for low wages to bother with socioeconomic grandstanding that the bourgeois kids do to make their daddy angry.
As a citizen of a country that virtually bans full-time employment contracts that do not include 401k plan and health insurance I'm sometimes amazed how young people tend to idolize such solutions. They work in small countries that were already rich before introducing social security. In bigger and less fortunate ones (especially post-communist countries), things are not so bright. First thing - taxation can be crippling, in Central Europe it is usually in the ballpark of 40% for income tax, plus about 20% VAT on all products and services, with the average wage of 1/4 of average US wage. Now imagine introducing such solutions country-wide in USA, where states can vary wildly. Not an easy task, so no wonder changes are slow.
I wouldn't say young adults and children now a days are spoiled, I think we get coddled way too much.
Both left & right pictures are true depending on the individual. Lack of experience was always a problem for the employer( ever since the baby boomer's time), so we have all been there , being underpaid & all... Be positive , have patience ,don't give up hope & everything will work out fine eventually guys ✌✌✌✌✌!
1: If the job market is flooded with stupid people with art degrees, the employer is spoiled for choice. simple reality that you should have considered before you went it a s****y field. 2: Some healthcare options are quite cheap and if you had a cheaper phone or didn't subscribe to premium cable channels and eat out nightly you can afford them. Driving yourself to the hospital, wtf that's called normal. 3: A living wage for a single person is quite low, but she wants an affluent lifestyle, not a living wage. 4: No one has to "accept" anyone, never mind the delusions of the mentally ill 5: How about you work hard and earn what you are demanding at these protests?
Well, Phil D has OBVIOUSLY never ever ever been on modern minimum wage in his entire life. You can pick em out by what they say. You clearly have no idea what it's like. I WAS going to refute each point individually, but that would be too long of a message for this site to allow purely because of the amount of s**t I would have to explain to you for you to even have a shot in hell of understanding. But rest assured, I CAN refute every single point you just said quite easily. I just tried to, except for the damn comment length limit. You literally could not BE more wrong, dude. Everything you said was incorrect, and REEKS of "I have no idea what poverty is like, and am an a*****e because of it".
Load More Replies... Haha yeah right, I work with nothing but 18 to 25 year olds. None of these are true...
I'm a millennial and so is my partner apparently. The difference between the two of us. I went to college and ended up struggling, he worked his way up (there is an age gap) but still he own two properties and I don't live with my parents because he had the deposit. I'm lucky I know but really the point is collage may have put me at a disadvantage
Did you take it into an account when choosing school or job? College is only an opportunity to get some specific knowledge that can be easily obtained from different sources. It doesn't guarantee a job, let alone a good job. The problem is that between the popularity of higher education and demographic boom, the increase in number of positions requiring higher education is lower than the increase of well-educated people. In other words, the supply is higher than demand. I'm not an American, hence my question - did recent decades saw a large surge of university graduates and the depreciation of artisans (machinists, plumbers, carpenters) who were considered 'menial workers'? We faced such changes here some time ago (let's say, 20 years back) and now it is not uncommon that welder or builder (even self-taught) makes more than a doctor with few years of experience.
Load More Replies... I hate to say this but the picture on the left is a good majority of what younger people are like today. Mommy and Daddy pay for everything so they can go to college. Here's a brand new car for you sweetheart, you can live here rent free, let me pay your car insurance because you need to study. I have had a job since I was 15. I live on my own, I pay for my own car/insurance and apartment, and I have a stable job. Plus starting school soon.. Not everyone is like that picture up there but a good majority.
I went to college for 5 years. During that entire time, I found a few people who's parents paid for tuition and that was it, or half of tuition. During my ENTIRE TIME in college I found two (TWO!!) people who had parent's paying their way. The rest of us, end up at least a couple grand in debt and even with a damn bachelor's degree in science, I can't get an f--king job paying anything but a dollar above minimum wage. While I have to make student loan payments, car payments, insurance payments, oh and pay for health insurance because there's no way in hell any employer is going to pay for benefits on someone without experience and "just" a degree. BUT! You can't get expierience because NO ONE WILL HIRE YOU WITHOUT EXPERIENCE. So you get an unpaid internship while incurring more debt, so you have a sliver of a f--king chance to get a decent paying job. And even then, like previously mentioned, wages have stalled and education costs have skyrocketed.
Load More Replies... Every one of these is an indictment of "millennial" thinking. None of them enhance liberty, but require others to provide for their benefit. If you don't see it, then you are a "millennial" and a socialist. Healthcare LITERALLY is not a "right" Employment is LITERALLY not a "right" Any sort of standard renumeration for any employment is LITERALLY not a "right" Your "acceptance" is LITERALLY not a "right"
You realize that if we are denied bathroom access, we're essentially being denied access to public spaces for more than an hour or two, right?
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