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Recently, Redditor u/AlmostBarbie reignited the never-dying discussion on the generation gap. On July 18, they made a post, asking, "Gen Z and millennials, what's something you wish the older generations understood?" and millennials especially had a to get off their chest.

Just as millennials grew up negotiating choices in their families and at school, today they want to be and feel significant in their professional and personal lives. Here are the things that matter to them the most.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Just because someone is Family DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO LOVE THEM. Terrible toxic people should ABSOLUTELY be cut out of your life REGARDLESS of their relationship to you

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Fox News and Talk Radio did to you what you thought video games would do to us.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Your s****y jokes that objectify women or make fun of minorities won’t fly anymore. Get over it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone should take this statement and tape it right into my father's face. He seems to only know 10 jokes, and all of them are either sexist or racist.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread When I’m depressed that doesn’t mean you need to give me lectures on what’s wrong with me so I can improve

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst lecture I received was how they had life far worse than me, felt more depressed and yet never behaved like me. How I am weak and allowed circumstances and recent media hype over mental illness to make me feel sick deliberately!

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Yeah, we know. You rode in the back window of a car that had no seatbelts, you got measles, rode bikes with no helmets, and still turned out just fine.

Just because you happened to be in the group of people who survived doesn’t mean any of these were a good idea.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those "In my days things were better" people. NO things were not better, just different AND we have better medicines, technology, transport etc. YES you did fine without them but we are doing better WITH them !

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#6

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Customers ARE NOT always right.

The original phrase reeks privilege, and self entitlement.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The original phrase is "The customer is always right in matters of taste"

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That video games dont cause mass shootings. Things like neglect, bullying,a bad home life, and your s****y parenting are what causes mass shootings

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blaming something else is a rather old issue. It was Dungeons & Dragons in the 80s. Rock music before that.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread You can’t put yourself through college by working at the supermarket anymore.

Our generation is the biggest in US history, so competition for jobs is much harder than it was for Boomers, which causes wages to flatline.

Add to this that housing and food costs are at all time highs and it’s pretty bleak for us, even many of those who have good jobs at Fortune 500 companies cannot afford to purchase homes.

I would really just like Boomers for ONCE just to acknowledge how difficult it is today vs. when they were coming up. It’s a different world and they just can’t see it. It’s very frustrating because most of them still think that anybody willing to swing a hammer 40 hours a week can make a living in America and it’s just not true anymore.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait until the boomers all die and the housing market crashes because of the massive surplus.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That $15/hour in 2021 does not give you the same purchasing power that it did in 1985. When I hear an older person say "I used to get by just fine on $15/hour", I wanna slap them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 1985 I was making $3.35 an hour. $15 an hour would have been a fortune.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Earning $15 an hour in 1985 would be like earning $37 an hour today. I really doubt anyone is telling you that. People know what inflation is.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No old people say that. In 1985 minimum wage was about $3.40 and if they made $15/hr back then it would be like $38/hr today.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made that in 1995 and, yes, I got by decently. It was still in have roommates and drive a cheap used car territory. I lived in an expensive place, though. That job also came with good benefits, and I had graduated university without loans because our state university was still pretty reasonable. In the meanwhile, rent has tripled, my old state uni charges 7x what they did back then, and $15/hr jobs don't come with benefits.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a real-world example. One of my first jobs was at Disneyland back in the late 70s. I made $2.20 an hour. That seems laughable, but back then my rent was around $100 a month, my tuition was $150-200 per year, and gas was about 40 cents a gallon. So I got by on that wage. Today, my rent in that same area would be about $16-1700 per month, gas is over $3 per gallon on average, and tuition at my alma mater is $7000 per year. So in the 70s, my annual pay was about 4500 per year, but rent and tuition came to only 1400, leaving me over $3000 per year for gas, food, etc. Somehow, that was enough. Today, if I was lucky enough to make $15 per hour, my annual pay would be about $30K. My annual rent and tuition would be about $27K. So I'd have about $3K per year left, same as in the 70s. Good luck buying a year's worth of food, gas, etc. on that.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My first job paid ƒ3 an hour (a bit less than 3 euro is now, less than 1,5 euro "back then"). Sounds like nothing, but man did the money last forever and ever. Rent was so much lower, gas and electric, insurance, groceries and so on. Sure the wages were less per hour, but all the stuff you had to spend it on cost so much less too

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS. OMG. The buying power of a dollar is crap now. In 1985, that was seriously good wages. Now it's barely-gonna-scrape-by.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents, early baby boomers made it on my dad's few bucks an hour cooks wages for a family of 4. Mom got to stay at home. They budgeted but made it. That will never happen again. Us, very tail end of the boomers, early Mill's, we both work, work hard, will continue working until? we die? I worry about our sons.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife and I got married in 1992. I had just graduated college, no debt because I was a veteran. We had one child. I was making $10/hour as a chemist. We lived in an apartment at $450/month, no car payment. My wife was stay at home. Now, almost 30 years later, we have raised three sons (one is going to law school, one is a chef, one is going to business school), and live in a 3500 sq.ft. house making $1200/month payments on. No car payment, together we make $70K/year. Only the last 10 years has my wife worked because she wanted to be a teacher. She went to school, had grants and took out a few loans. It doesn't come quick, and that seems to be what is wanted "instant gratification". Sometimes, you have to live below your wants.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And when we hear you complain about how broke you are while texting on a $800 mobile we want to slap you as well.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A phone is a one-time purchase. It may have been a gift. It may have been second hand. It may have come discounted through your provider with your contract. It may actually come from the government or a nonprofit if you're eligible for one of their programs. Not having a phone does not equal rent. Not having a phone does not make you rich. I'm sick of hearing this argument.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband and I told his parents we wouldn't be buying expensive Christmas gifts one year because we were trying to save money to pay off his student debt... they actually started arguing with us about how his dad made the same amount of money as him at that age and could afford Christmas presents no problem. Talk about entitled (and not understanding what inflation is)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's called adjusting your lifestyle to your income. You can't live like a Kardasian on $15 hr, but you CAN live on it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's true. However, when I was growing up in a small town, there were no fast food businesses that hired teens and no "big box stores." The locally-owned small businesses hired their own kids. It was pretty hard to find a job if your relatives didn't own a business.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could have said 2005 and the phrase would have made some sense. $15 /hr in 1985 would have been high income bracket.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, get an education with a practical degree, not dig yourself into massive debt for something ending in "Studies." Go to trade school. You did this to yourself. Stop blaming everyone else and demanding you be paid more for your poor decisions.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

apparently neither does $35/hour with full benefits because we still cant fill open positions.

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Shelby Rinck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

15 bucks an hour in 1985 was unheard of! I was in the service making 695 bucks a month for 60-70 hours a week.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$15 an hour now is still less than when the first minimum wage was issued at $2 an hour.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Social Security is based on a formula... The calculations is based on the amount you contributed during your working years and at what age you start collecting.... For people who were at the lower ends of the calculation, they would not be collecting even equal to minimum wage, let aline more than minimum wage.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked for minimum wage back in the day...$2.35/hour. Yeah, I didn't no anyone that made $15/hour.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I made $5.75 and I was making bank! Still I understand inflation hits everything.

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Debs
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No children....I got by on 3.35 an hour in 1985. 😎

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was never the general case in 1985, and... inflation. What was it the previous thing mentioned? fact checking? Average wage was about $5, minimum wage was a little over $3, and with inflation, that $5 would be $12.63 by inflation, so 15 is actually an increase.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to get by on $3/hr, and I'm well aware that the value of minimum wage has declined.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made $1.00 an hour at my first job in 1963. My first raise took me all the way to $1.10. That was an office job in a hospital.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guess what? That $15/hr. minimum wage isn't going to help you out either. The price of everything will go up simply because the people at the origin point for all the necessary things to produce a greater thing are well within the pool of people who would get the minimum wage. In order to offset the cost of these base level goods all the various upstream providers will have to raise their selling cost to offset.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 1985 cooking in one of San Francisco's best seafood restaurants I started at $9/hr and that was considered good. Wages topped out at $9/hr.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's not meant to be a full time job - it's for kids, young, part-time until you: graduate, get a trade, degree, etc...if that's your life's work, sorry...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I WISH that I was making $15.00 an hour now! I might be able to afford to live on my paycheck alone.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they think that $15 an hour will support someone because it did them well in 1985....perhaps they would like to live on the $40 a week their parents made. 🙄

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An average house in a city here (not my city, because I couldn't find an average price from that time. I didn't pick one of the most popular cities, just an average one) in 1985 was 65.000 gulden (gilders). Euro's were worth over 2.2 gilders, but let's say the gilder price was half that of what the euro later became to be. So for easy conversation we'll make that roughly 32.500 euro for an average family home. The same house in the same city cost over 353.000 euro in 2018. That's well over 10 times as much. Average annual income (before taxes) in 1985 was a bit over 18k. Average annual income in 2018 was a bit over 37k. So the average income since then has about doubled, but cost of purchasing a home is 10 times what it was. Yea, sure, I agree, we all eat too many avocados, that's the problem /s (edited for typo's, there might be more and if so I might or might not edit those out later)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, the person doesn't understand inflation, and given that, you should ignore their financially ignorant opinion. Where I am minimum wage in 1985 was $3.35. $3.35 in today’s money using the Bank of Canada inflation calculator is $7.35. Minimum wage is now $12.95. I know this doesn't tell the whole story, and it's not universal to other places. I have worked full time and lived through pay rent, or buy food periods, as minimum wage is not enough, I hope it gets better in the future and others don't need to make those choices.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the U.S. minimum wage in 1985 was $3.35. According to a U.S. inflation calculator, that's $8.46 today. The minimum wage today is $7.25.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

15$ in 1985 is worth 38$ in 2021 So if you made 15$, it's like if we made 38$ Which is very hard to get these days

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, we don't. Every time we go the the grocery store, we're reminded of it.

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This is not true... yes the inflation is higher, but you can't afford living this days, not because of the minimum wages, is because the things you want to buy like designer clothing, Starbucks or a new phone every 6 months... A gum ball still costing .25 cents

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Throughout our schooling, we had to write research papers using online sources, and our teachers really stressed the importance of being able to identify a credible source before citing it. Don't be offended when you send us an article from Americanpatrioteagle.ru and we dismiss it outright.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Learning about credible sources is a great skill to have. A former friend of mine has been posting 10 times a day on Facebook since joining. Lots of dubious "facts" and "news". I kept pointing out inaccuracies and fact-checking sites. After several years, they wrote that they'd like to start consulting fact-checking sites. I was long disengaged by then. I can live with the occasional mistake (I've made them, too), but not a daily barrage that requires fact-checking by the audience.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread I feel damn resentful when older folks tell me I should stay home with my kids. Like, yeah I’d love to if we could afford it, which we can’t. They act like it’s a choice to go back to work, when for a lot of moms, it’s not a choice.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread "I was spanked as a kid and I turned out fine."

No, you didn't. You're a narcissist, get mad easily, joke about hitting your own children and even they're sick of your bull crap to the point that they cut you off. F**k you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dang - somebody's got an agenda / jumping to conclusions. I was spanked as a child, and I don't get mad easily, never joke about violence, and have never once hit my own kids. You'll have to ask others about my narcissism and if they're sick of my crap, but even if I'm guilty of those things you've got some work to do to convince me it's because of my childhood abuse.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Your job is not your life, you shouldn't sacrifice time with friends and family let alone your mental wellbeing just for a paycheck

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Catch 22 there. Hard to have time for your friends and family if you can't put food on the table or keep the utilities on. :(

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That just because I don't want to be called something doesn't mean I'm a baby. People are allowed to have boundaries and things they don't feel comfortable with

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It also swings the other way. If you hear me call my son "Monster Face," it doesn't mean he will grow up with a complex. It's a term of endearment. My sister flipped out at this. I was called "Monster Face" by my mom's entire side of the family. I called them names too like "Old lady." If it's an inside fun ribbing, don't call it out as cruel unless you're in on it or you see or hear the other person protest.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Just because we're more aware of our mental health and allow ourselves to feel what we want to feel, it doesn't make us weak or "snowflakes". If anything, it makes us better at coping with, well, everything!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Snowflake" is a word almost exclusively used by people who truly are very insecure; similarly as they use "liberal" as an insult to mask they own lack of tolerance towards others.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Dad: “Just go in and ask for a job and keep going every day until they give you one.” Or “This random kid I was talking to at Wegmans (20 years ago) started in the mailroom and worked his way up and he’s making $x hundred thousand per year.”

Me: “They just tell you to submit a resume online and never respond.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This worked when I was in college 2000-2004, but it doesn't work anymore. They get angry with you if you come in. "Apply online"

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Texting is much more convenient, sometimes even better, than making a phone call.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So so so many times it's easier to actually talk to the other humans, scary as that can seem. With texting there's no tone, nuance and my sarcasm is much better while talking.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Unless you are extremely gifted and have a way to demonstrate it, social class is becoming more locked in than it has been in generations.

The social mobility that started to become available in the first half of the 20th century, but amplified much more so in the 40's, 50's and 60's started to decline in the 80s and by the 2010s was is straight up freefall.

If you do not have parents that are willing and able to support your social and financial progress from childhood through higher education (or through training in a steady trade) you are at very real risk of falling through the cracks of this society through no fault of your own.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The US has a system of equality where the more you own, the more equal you are and the more civil rights you have.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That electronics don't rot your brain,and that vaccines ARE effective.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think boomers - the smallpox generation - are well aware of the efficacy of vaccines. It's younger people (mainly in the usa) who seem to think otherwise.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Just because I know where/how to find the answer to something doesn't mean I "think I'm smarter than you."

I'm just trying to save both of us from wasting time.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or when someone knows more about some topic. It's natural, we all develop bigger knowledge about something. I know more about history, you know more about space. IT'S NORMAL

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread There was hope in your time. You felt like you could change the world. Nowadays, our economy is f****d, our environment is f****d, our privacy is gone, our governments are pitting us against one and other, and the planet is going to kill us off within the next century regardless of what we do about it.

So don't look down on us as "weak" or call us "entitled" if we're a little pissed off and/or depressed about it, ok?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally someone who gets it. It isn't left vs. right. It's society vs. government. Stop falling for the idea that we should be pissed at each other. Wrong!

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That I’m not a lazy entitled CHILD. I’m in my mid 30s and most of my peers that are younger than me are smart and hardworking as well. It’s productivity and efficiency that matters, not the amount of time you spend at work.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a story here in Germany called "the seven lazy ones". It's about seven men, who are known to be incredibly lazy. Eventually, they left the town to find work. Years later, they came back and start improving things immensely: they build a dam to protect the town from floods, they build a pathway and houses for themselves and dig a well. But no matter what they do, the neighbors always find a way to keep calling them lazy because they're making life easier and obviously only lazy people would want an easier life.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That the cost of education far outpaced inflation and wage growth in the US. If I had a dime for each boomer who lectured me about working my way through school like they did, I might almost be able to buy a house!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rather show to them how tuition fees are handled elsewhere in the world and you might get an idea about what is wrong...

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That technology exists to enable people to work from home, and just because they do doesn't mean they are sat watching Netflix

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't mean that, but admit it. You are on BoredPanda and Netflix more than you would be in the office.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That it is reasonable to not want kids and enjoy life with your spouse.

I can’t have kids, buy a house, and go on vacation even with my $100k+ salary. At least, not if I want to have money saved for emergencies.

Either older generations played it looser with less savings, or s**t was different.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$100k a year and you can't do those things? What the f**k ARE you spending your money on? Few people reading this will have much sympathy for someone earning a vast amount more than they are

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Apparently sleeping till 11 AM makes you lazy regardless of whether or not you had to work until 12:30 AM at your s****y Wendy's location.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not exclusively a boomer thing, though. There's still very little regard for people working in nightshifts.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Kids use computers/phones for more than just playing video games and scrolling through social media. I basically live on my computer. My best friends are online. My favorite activities are coding and making games. But no, my parents assume the devil computer is rotting my brain and making me stupid. As a wise man once said: phone bad, book good.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask the same people if back in 1960 they were writing with charcoal on stones or went for the convenience of pencil and paper.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That “just get a better job” is not all that easy

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That not everything can be solved with immediate aggression. That being patient and thinking on the right thing to say rather then saying what comes to mind first goes a lot further

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was one of the first things they tried to teach me at the hospital. I kept calling it 'plotting' and they didn't like that. It's one of my most used pieces of advice, every time I get an email from head office, I click reply, delete the addressee and type my angry response. Then delete the email and start anew with a more measured and planned response.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That we're not that lazy and we have a good reason to be depressed, cynical, and pesimistic. People like my grandma always talk how "at your age i was married, had a house, and 2 kids blah blah" not realising they did all that on 1 paycheck, while simultaneously complaining how money isnt worth anything nowadays and they just went grocery shopping and spent 25 % of their income while chanting "dont worry, its gonna get better". How can you not put those two together

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1) Your grandma got married and had kids at your age because she didn’t have a lot of other options...but because it was necessarily what she would have otherwise chosen.... those good old days weren’t always so good if you dig a little deeper. Anyone who wants to go back to the “good old days” is either living in a fantasy world or they like a world where white men were the only ones with any rights (it’s not been so many years ago that a woman couldn’t get credit in her name without a male counter-signer). 2) Your grandma didn’t send her kids to school every day worried that today might be the day some sick person will target their school for a mass killing. 3) While her generation should have been worried about climate change and its effect on the future of this planet, she was not faced with the urgency that your generation is.

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