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

In my day, we didn't have rocks. They weren't invented yet. We had to wash our clothes by beating our heads against them at the river.

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

Umm.... I never got measles, I was GenX, and we were vaccinated. We had seatbelts. We should've had helmets and knee pads. We're *why* they came about, I think,, simply b/c we're the idiots who started doing those tricks (speaking as an idiot)

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

Shhhh! Don't tell them about Gen X or they might find a reason to post complaints about our shortcomings, too! Run! Hide! (also, wear your seatbelt and eat your vegetables)

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

I keep on hearing old people saying "we didn't have these things in my day and I turned out fine". Yet I never hear old people saying otherwise... I wonder why? Oh yeah, I know, because the ones that didn't "turn out fine" are DEAD and can't comment on message boards. Car accidents are STILL the #1 cause of death for kids. Wear a damn seat-belt.

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

In the future you New Generations are Dead, Even though I'm 35, Security is Important, Remember, I Hate Those Who Despise Boomers, Counterattack with This: "Ok, Digital Fool!" You Are Building Your House On The Sand, Dear, It Is True That Technology Makes You Stupid (No Offense) Use Too Much, A Little Bit Okay, When The Solar Storm Comes That Will Cause A Blackout Even World That Lasts 10 Years, Goodbye Technologies, later you will become like us "Boomers" HA! Now you will laugh that you find this comment ridiculous but in the future you will cry bitterly! GUARANTEED, You must not despise the elders, you will regret it bitterly! They will amaze you with what you can imagine!

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

I accidentally burned my hand on an oven when I was a child. I turned out fine. Therefore, every child should burn their hand on an oven.

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

I agree, but I also think that we've become fear junkies, and the media exploits this by over-hyping the danger of too many things, like letting your kids play outside. Example: I saw a news story the other day about why you should NEVER let children have chickens as pets, because they could die from salmonella poisoning. Never mind that kids on farms have been raising chickens for centuries. Sometimes a little historical perspective can help with your risk assessment.

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

The middle ages also had people who turned 85. Exactly those who did not die a premature, horrible death, let alone first of all survived infancy. Those who say "it was better in the old times" are pretty much always wrong.

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

That first sentence is often overlooked by people who dont fully appreciate how averages work. Specifically the average life expectancy being about 35, when this average is brought down by a) the number of children people were having, and b) the number of those children who died before the age of 5. If you were lucky enough to make it to your teens, your chances of living into your 50's went up. There were plenty of people in the middle ages who were (by our modern measurements) middle aged.

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

Everything has speeded up. What was safe is not anymore, simple

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

And many things that ARE safe are made unsafe in the name of wh0ring for likes on SM.

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

Car safety was still a thing. My mom always made me wear a seatbelt. Still able to lay down in the backseat but I was still buckled in. The older generations that I've come across are all very safety conscious. I'm still required to squeeze my head in an equestrian helmet when I go horseback riding.

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

i agree that many things are far better today, but i wouldn't trade playing outside all day and evening, all year round, for anything. "real play" -- that's what we had.

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

What you're saying is just not true. I'm a boomer and boomers simply don't say the kinds of things you claim we do. I know that when I was raising my kids, I and my peers were extremely safety conscious. We always used seat belts and car seats and demanded air bags. We lined up to vaccinate our kids and we insisted on helmets, etc. etc. Indeed, boomers were accused of being too protective. It's the generation before boomers that had the casual attitude towards safety, not boomers.

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

i wore a seat belt every time , before it was the law , not sure why people dont

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

It's not a matter of if it was a good idea or not. It's a commentary on how restrictive life is today. People DID survive under those conditions.

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

Most people from my generation are not claiming these things made life "better". WE are the ones, not gen X or millennials, that passed the laws requiring seatbelts, measles vaccines and helmets because we did not want our kids to suffer the same consequences we did. WE are the ones who helicoptered our kids because our parents ignored us. You are the ones who took off your helmets the minute you got out of our sight!

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

When i was a kid and asked my parents to buy something, as kids do, my mother used to tell "when i was your age" stories to show how spoiled i was. She was born right after the WWII in rural area, ravaged by war. Things she didn't have included fridge, electricity (she had to read under the light of a candle or even burning piece of wood) etc. And i would always think "well, why don't we all go back to that if we're only having fridge and electricity for my spoiled a**e?"

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

This is funny because when YOU get older you will be doing/saying exactly the same things.

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

They miss the main part of their own statement, PAST times, those are not current days and times, that isn't our world anymore.

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

There were no airbags, etc.... ...who invented that? Your generation? :D

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

Some things were better - for some communities, in some locales. Accessible university - just have decent grades and apply. Affordable university - zero tuition at UC Berkeley, and you could cover food and rent with part time and summer work. Good jobs, good pay. Affordable homes. One salary could support a family of five.

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

Some things were better. We had a lot more green spaces and birds. We hadn't started labeling people by generations. A lot of things have improved since the old days, but we have lost some things also.

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

Just from a practical standpoint: every generation created that is sheltered from things like diseases, allergies, etc., is one that will crash harder if we ever have a momentary lapse in our pipeline of temporary solutions.

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

Maybe they were a good idea because they imposed a method of population control?

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

Except there were loads of people who DIDN'T SURVIVE! Hence why we found solutions to all of those things

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

They only reason they get to say that all those risks and dangers were ok is because they lived and so very many of their compatriots didn't. Those laws weren't created in a vacuum. Every one of those safety features and laws are written as an epitaph of a life that was cut short.

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

You talk as though kids were dying right and left in those days. That's quite simply bullshit.

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

I hate the Facebook posts that say "share of you rode without a seatbelt, helmet etc and turned out fine" Like ok aunt Karen, it's not like the people who died from that s**t can actually post.

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

Measles nearly killed my mother, she had it just weeks before the first vaccine was approved for use in 1963. You can bet your a*s she had me and my sister vaccinated in the 1980s/90s.

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

I had measles in 1960. My sight is poor, but I survived. But I know someone who didn't

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

In retrospect,everything appears alright because you're done experiencing it and your only makes you remember the good bits.Lol.

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

If anybody raves about teh 'good old times' I offer to send them back in time to a dentist.

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

YES!!! Believe me, you don't need to go back to the middle ages, two or three generations will do nicely

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

This is called survivor bias. You can't/don't include the ones who died/failed from it so your counts are completely wrong. You think your strategy is better than it is because you only count one category (successes). The modern version of this is COVID. No one I talk to has died from it. Therefore people living on rural potato farms are safe from it. In fact, over 2000 people died from it in rural Idaho.

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

I still think that getting the diseases you generally get as a child (or at least when I was a child) is the best way to build a good immune system. But of course this is only my humble point of view.

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

I'm a late era boomer and I always tell those stories from a "wtf were we thinking" point of view.

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

"Back in my day we had the black plague" - thanks but I'd rather have proper hygiene thank you.

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

It's their fault things changed. What they did when they became parents was to overreact and have fits when their offspring so much as scraped a knee. They were the original "helicopter" parents and the younger generation gets blamed.

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

"Survivorship Bias" is the term for it. "Well I survived so it wasn't that bad". STFU , Jerry, and get your grandkid his helmet 🤦🏻‍♀️

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

It wasn’t safe then either...and I don’t understand those who spout this nonsense...they surely are not so stupid that they don’t understand the safety issue involved....you would think they would support seat belts, safety helmets, etc...if for no other reason than it might save one of their grandchildren.

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

I saw a post or meme a while ago that said something along the lines of "I didn't wear my seatbelt and my car doesn't have airbags. I didn't get into an accident when I drove home from work. Seatbelts and airbags must not be necessary". I think that pretty much portrays the intelligence level of these kind of people (on the bike with no helmet thing, I'm from The Netherlands, a country designed especially for cycling. Most people go without one because there is no need, but even here those who cycle for sport and/of go fast wear helmets)

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

Hey guys! I jammed this screwdriver into this nuclear bomb core and i didn't die! We should all do this!

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

...said Louis Slotin... before he tried it again, and had the screwdriver slip. Never did much of anything after that. You'd think he'd have learned to follow procedure after what happened to his colleague Harry Daghlian.

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

The only things better back then was there were fewer people, less of a wage gap, and more affordable housing options. (I'm a xlennial)

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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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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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Hans
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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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Natalie Oleander
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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.

Actuaryba , olia danilevich Report

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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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Hans
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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

ty4nothing , Taryn Elliott Report

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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.

JokicCheeseburgerMan , Ivan Oboleninov Report

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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.

Afely , Windows Report

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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

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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

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

Sir_Daniel_Fortesque , Alexander Dummer Report

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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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