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

You see the tables being turned more and more: Liberals start calling right-wing people that get offended over nothing snowflakes.

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

How come you're so easily offended by everything then? I'm not being mean, but it does seem that there are a lot more people claiming 'victim' these days. It kinda makes it hard for the actual real victims to be taken seriously. Go on, downvote me to the depths of hell. lol

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

God, I wish I knew that, too. I *think* it comes from the desire to be nice to each other, to be inclusive to LGBTQ-people and minorities and people with mental health problems and well, basically wanting to be nice to EVERYONE. If you look in some forums and chat-groups, you'll find many that are really nice to each other, try not to offend anyone and by that realize how often others get offended online (or in real life). Maybe not on purpose, of course, but still. So they see that and want to be extra-nice and try to defend people who don't speak up for themselves. Maybe it even comes from having to fear that some bullied kid will come back and shoot them all? So they hang out on yt and instagram with famous people who are basically really nice and so they kind of demand that niceness from everyone. (tbc)

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

No, you are snowflakes, because you are being overly emotional, thinking you're the only one who has Ever Had Problems. And you don't seem to be coping well. You aren't special. Buck up and adult. If you have real problems, seek help, not post it online for likes.

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

All snowflakes. Overly emoitional when they dare show the slightest bit of emotion. Complainers when they dare speak out about struggles. They aren't doing well at all. How did that come to be? You're telling them to suck it up and shut up and to talk about it at the same time, care to explain?

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

Actually you don't appear to know how to cope at all....All millinials do is whine how bad life sucks and thinks the government is suppose to take care of them

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

It isn't so much that they think the government should take care of them as they think they're automatically entitled to a $250K a year job just because they have a degree in something ending in "Arts" or "Studies" from some community college nobody who isn't from the town where it's located ever heard of.

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

“Snowflake” and “liberal,” along with “leftist” and, at times, “socialist” have become the new tool words for the Ad Hominem and Straw Man logical fallacies.

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

We need to add "conservative" and "Trumpist", too, though. It's really hard to even have a debate. But I actually think most of those that scream "Leftist!!!" and "TRUMPIST!!!" are actually paid trolls by ... ahem, 'someone' to stir up s**t and fortify the '"Sides" to make it easier to just take what is left. If so - very clever. Creepy, scary, but clever. Which makes it even scarier...

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

SO let me get this straight, taking the liberty to speak for others and hushing them up when objecting, is fine, just as calling out others "cultural appropriation" etc,yet, it's perfectly fine to enjoy cotton, foreign food and many other things, but somehow, everyone else are the bigots, but never you? Gotcha.

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

It isn't really, it's just that younger people are more outspoken about their feelings than older people are. "back then" maybe 10 out of 10.000 would speak their mind about feelings, now it's almost the other way around. Almost inevitable that you also hear so much more from "snowflakes" being offended than you would in any other time. In past times people just wouldn't speak their mind (edit: NOT saying that people who share their feelings about thing are snowflakes)

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

I never understood why being called a snowflake was so bad. I mean, snowflakes are amazing. Every snowflake is beautiful and a whole bunch of snowflakes can trap you in your house, knock out your power, and bury your car. Respect the beautiful powerful snowflake.

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

The minute I hear someone use the term 'snowflake', I lose respect for them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hahahahahahhaaa.... NO. I mean, Yes, you're allowed to feel any way you want... But so many of the younger generation let their feelings and emotions RULE their lives, and it ends up not being too productive, and therefore hard to take seriously. EVERYONE has feelings and emotions, but how you *Manage* them EFFECTIVELY out in the real world, in front of other people... is key to how other people will receive you.

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

Unless, of course it is used as a crutch to blame others, not be responsible for yourself or your actions or an excuse to be just you.

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

This can go a little bit too far the other way, though. There is - with some people - a sense of not just taking care of your own mental health, but that other people need to be given rules and regulations to deal with your mental issues. So, a person with BPD instead of working on themselves will simply write up a list of rules for their loved ones to follow. This can go too far. But in general, I agree with this. My parents were born in the 1920s. (I'm a Gen-Xer.) My Dad especially - a really sweet guy in general, the best - had this idea that emotions were illogical and a person should just suck everything. It was a very toxic attitude.

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

Important clarification: The BPD comment was an example of what I've seen some people do - not intended to imply that all people with BPD do this!

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

I wonder which generation coined the term snowflake I didn’t hear it or see it until after the Internet was 10 years old

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

But you're not better at coping with everything. You're just about the same at coping with different opinions as Boomers and as a whole have tons of social anxiety.

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

Ummm..... if it makes you better at coping, then why do they lose their minds over a flag, hat, shirt, even food.

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

As far as I got informed snowflake is a term from altright to dismiss other Lifestyle. Since than my view on everyone using this term changed a lot.

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

my generation are the ones still killing them selves rather than tell their mates or a doctor their having a hard time , i know more suicide victims than i do drug od's

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

I think it's a blessing that society has evolved to be more inclusive to those that suffer mental health issues. It wasn't always so and people in the past truly did suffer. The world has changed and you're benefiting from it.

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

I think defining what "mental health" is would help. It seems that a lot of the younger generation has "mental health" problems on a constant basis, always skipping school, always skipping work...many times begging for a "mental health day". What exactly starts these "mental health" problems? Songs? Television? Movies? Books? Other People? The News? It just seems like every time someone turns around the words "mental health" are the first ones spoken.

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

who is tougher - the person who admits and works on things they are aware of, or the person to scared to even look?

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

The person who went to work every day for fifty years and never needed a "mental health day."

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

People (like me) who advocate for and work towards their own mental health are the some of the most courageous people around.

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

Having the courage to face mental health issues is anything but weak. With the world my generation (and those before us) have created...I am amazed that there isn’t more mental health issues. I often think what an exciting time it would be to be young (times are changing and there is such an opportunity to be part of that change) but also what a burden the young have today....making a living, worrying about climate change (I worry, too, but I am at an age that I probably won’t have to deal with the worst of it...my children and grandchildren will, though. 😢). The fact that so many young people are getting involved and are pushing for change, to me speaks for their strength and resiliency!! I look at the young people I see getting involved in their communities and as activists.....I sure don’t see any “snowflakes” there! ❤️

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Feelings have no place in the work force.

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

Says the boss who won't give their employees time off to go to a parents funeral.

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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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#24

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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David Beaulieu
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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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#25

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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