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

Referring to a generation that way is useless, creates division. Most of my boomer friends (who haven't already died, of course) are still living in apartments, some of them still working full-time, many of them only working part-time. Some disabled. The gap is not between the generations, it's between the rich exploiters, plunderers, and the ordinary people trying to survive.

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

I'm a boomer, and I absolutely agree it is much harder to get by today than it was when I was starting out. Anyone who says otherwise is blind to reality. But please stop painting boomers with a broad brush. Many of us fought injustice in the 1960-1970s, and we made a difference. Take to the streets and work to change things; get politically involved; vote; unionize. You can complain about the world, or you can change it. The torch is in your hands.

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

And the torch is useful for so many things besides making avocado toast and creating the right mood for selfies. There, how do YOU like being generalized against, Mils?

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

If you'd worked at the supermarket pictured, you'd be fine, because that's in Norway.

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

"willing to swing a hammer" How many of your generation go to college because they think they are too good to swing a hammer? Irony is the fact that your peer hauling trash or fixing other people's toilets make more than you because they are willing to do this menial work. And they didn't have to go into soul killing debt to make it happen.

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

agree 100% I moved out of my parent's home at 17! was able to pay the bills by working at Sizzler's ! My children worked from the time they were legally able to and could not afford to move out on their own until their late 20's.

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

It's not entirely true that previous generations could put themselves through college that way either. Boomers often conveniently forget that they had a lot of financial help from their own parents. That's because at that time, even non-college educated blue collar workers could afford to save enough money to help their kids with tuition. (Maybe not Ivy League tuition, but at least at a state school.) Today the wealth gap is so wide that a lot of parents struggle just to make ends meet, and more and more kids are forced to take on student loans with usurious terms. Poverty begets poverty.

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

"With usurious terms" in the correct phrase. I had student loans, but the interest was 3 % or some such ridiculous rate. Now it is literally loan shark rate. In the 70s , interest rates were capped at something like 15% because anything higher was considered loan sharking and was criminal offense.

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

The boomers I know were a generation of poverty. 3 childten to 1 bed. Only eating potatoes for months. Teeth extracted because it was $5 va a filling that was $6. Putting kids into children's homes/orphanages for a few months when they couldn't afford to feed them. I happen to be talking about white & mixed individuals, in those cases, but the color of their skin shouldn't matter. People have no clue how good they have things. They'd rather concentrate on hating certain races & thinking people are "owed" something for nothing... instead of realizing living, growing, & learning together is the way to real equality.

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

The Boomers were born in the 50s and 60s - are you sure you're talking about the Boomers?

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

No way in hell could I have paid for college at $1.65/hour. Then Wachovia cheated me on my loan payback. My first job was $5700/yr and I found cheap housing, walked to work. It's so strange to me that you young people don't seem to know what you are talking about. I wish just once millennials wouldn't say boomers had it easier and don't understand how hard it is today. My parents lived through the depression, they knew what hard was and I learned from them. Why is this a competition?

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

Not all of us so called Boomers think that way. Many of us saw the writing on the wall years ago and tried to prepare our children. It's pretty sad that many kids are waiting for their parents to die in order to get ahead lol. The cost of life is not something we can control for our kids, I hate that in order for them to have their starter home it costs half a million. Or that it takes 2 incomes to even live.

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

There are also Millennials that think that after they graduate from college, they'll be able to buy a house or live in an apartment without roommates. Even though your educated, you're still entry level. If your parents couldn't survive on a single income, neither will you.

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

If you tried, you'd likely just get an arrogant, condescending "OK, boomer" for your trouble. But at least we "boomers" understood a few things the younger folks seem to have trouble grasping, not the least of which is that the world does not owe you a living.

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

It absolutely is possible to make a great living swinging a hammer in America. Problem is, nobody wants to do it.

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

No, I assure you many people would do it if, 1) A robot or someone in a third world country had not taken over the job, and 2) labor unions had not been destroyed so that actually you cannot make a good living doing blue collar work now. What people are not willing to do is dead end, dangerous, unhealthy jobs that do not pay enough to even put a roof over your head.

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

See my previous posts on entry level wages and the scam which is the college education system.

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

"Most" of nobody thinks the same things. You people obviously do not have children, because if you did, you would know that everything millennials suffer from, their parents suffer too, because that is what happens when you are a parent. When you hurt, we hurt. We want the best for our kids and it tears us apart to watch when they struggle. Did it ever occur to you that when we speak of our struggles, different though they may be, we are, maybe misguidedly, trying to tell you it can get better and give you some hope?

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

That song by THE WHO "Talkin' 'Bout My Generation" - that was written by young baby boomers telling older generations to leave them alone and let them be. I hope we remember this when we are older generations

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

Exactly... it's a different America, it's a different TIME... hence why generations are grouped together by characteristics they share that were likely result of the common trends and practices of the time that shaped their world.

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

Not a Boomer, but Gen X and I absolutely think today's generation has it the worst with a lack of job opportunities that can pay the exorbitant rent. With several jobs and multiple roommates, they can barely keep up as long as nothing goes wrong with their health or transporation. But I would also say that having grown up in poverty without being able to graduate college (same as my husband) we may never be able to retire due to lack of savings. We are very frugal, but having more health issues as we grow older, an older house that requires maintenance, and used cars that often need maintenance, it's difficult for us, too. Roommates and two jobs for each of us can only so far.

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

Wah wah.....you entitled brats need to look to history. Life didn't begin when you were born. 😎

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

And that is somehow the fault of the older gen? Ok. ok... it's their fault you exist... sorry about that. shoulda used protection...

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

I hear you! And I apologize that my generation has created such a crappy world for you. Honestly... we really screwed up and we deserve all the blame you heap on us.

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

I live in a small, crappy county in Northern Calif. (300 miles north of San Francisco). Just read an article in our paper that said someone would need to make about $23. an hour to be able to afford a 2 bedroom apt. NO ONE makes those wages here except Dr's and Lawyers!

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

well, i'm a 'boomer' and i agree totally with this one! the gov is suppressing us ALL financially, to keep us down and in control. wages suck, fixed income never goes up more than a buck or two, yet prices of everything, food, gas, housing, heat etc, just keep climbing! i have no idea what anyone is supposed to do anymore.

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

Just look at the disposable income percentages rather than the nominal wage. Real incomes have declined precipitously while our society has engineered the most massive transfer of wealth from the working young to the retired old since the 1970's in the history of the world.

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

The above info is incorrect. The birthrates in Western countries has been declining in the last 50 years. So the current generation is not the biggest in US history. In fact, economists have been more and more concerned about this with each passing decade. This the primary reason for the coming insolvency of Social Security. And there are even more crucial military and national security concerns that will be confronting the nation in 10 to 15 years because of the declining birthrate.

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

And college isn't really all that worth it now, either. When my mom and dad were growing up, in the 60s and 70s, college was an absolute sure ticket to wealth and success. But now, you can make almost as much as a college graduate (well, with the exceptions of doctors, lawyers, etc) without a degree, and not spend your whole life saddled with student debt.

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

Oh, I'm a boomer, and that is absolutely correct, no argument from me! Not all of us are that entitled or clueless.

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

I am a Boomer and it is harder today than it was back when. I wasn't homeless then. I didn't have to survive on my $900 a month disability payment. I can't afford a place to live on that.

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

The Baby Boomers were the biggest generation in history when they were your age.

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

Maybe when Americans are paid a living wage as other countries do you might be able to afford college with a part time job. I cannot believe a population of over 35o million tolerate the wages you guys are paid.

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

😢 This is so true. I am a Boomer. When I graduated from college just about anyone with a college degree could land a good job. Now, I don’t want to make it sound like there were always plenty of jobs just waiting to be had wherever you lived...sometimes you might have to move to another town, city, state to find a good job...but it was much easier then than now. Also, college didn’t cost as much then as now and there were generous financial aid. As an undergraduate I received PELL grants and state scholarships which paid all of my tuition and books and many semesters there was money left over to pay for my gas to drive back and forth to school. I worked full time because I had married and had kids before returning to school. As a single mom I had to work but my schooling was paid for. I had received one loan for $1500 and that was because my job cut or hours back significantly and without the loan I would have had to quit school to take another job.

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

Since you have the biggest generation, you should be able to out-vote the conservative Boomers clinging to a fantasy past. That doesn't happen though.

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

Check out how easy it is to be able to go vote. In Canada you do your income tax and then you can vote. In the USA it's a f mess

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

You are sop right. We old timers are really concerned for our grandkids. And a bit upset with those who voted for Ted, LBJ and Hart-Celler.

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

Uh, Boomers were proportionally even bigger as the biggest generation in US history. They just had a couple decades of socialism to un-f*** the Gilded age and Roaring 20s to create a middle class… for them to feed off of and destroy for their children…

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

you can start at a 6 figure salary and no one is going to validate you or ask you how your feeling in a real job...you cant always win, there is no medal for participation and no one cares how you feel suck it up you are all in the snowflake oversensitive generation....useless lot

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

When could you ever pay your way through college working at the grocery store? Must have been before my time. And yes, we know things are harder than they were when we were your age, but it isn't our fault you weren't a millionaire by the time you were 25.

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Another whining millennial with excuses and comparisons to justify being lazy

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Plus they allow all these immigrants in and foreign students

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Perhaps you should stop voting for politicians that let in millions of competitors into the country illegally. You want sympathy, stop shooting yourself in the foot.

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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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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?

Mad-Mad-Mad-Mad-Mike , Mental Health America (MHA) Report

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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.

LimitedSwitch , Anastasia Shuraeva Report

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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

GigiJuno , Clem Onojeghuo Report

#29

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

Bman28345 , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

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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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