Why Millennials Feel 'Left Behind' by Their Boomer Parents

[@nicholewilde4750]

Many boomers have also separated themselves from what the job market is like today. My hubby once had a retired man tell him that if he wants to get ahead in life and retire like he did he needs to work 50 hours a week instead of 40. Like working more hours never occurred to my husband. When my hubs told the man that he already works 75 hours a week and half of them he works for free or his job will fire him, he seemed shocked. They also have no comprehension that jobs no longer offer cushy pensions and retirement plans either. They have been out of the world so long that they have no idea what it’s like anymore.

[@justinstolz4481]

They were the ones who gutted the pension plans and cut their workforce without reducing the total workload so they could maximize profits and drive shareholder value. They just don't understand that they were robbing their kids to make the wealthy even richer.

[@andrewflanders262]

the fact is that unemployment is fairly low right now. there have always been periods where it was hard to find work. what shocks me the most now is with such high minimum wage, there's no incentives to take a more difficult job over over an easier one when the difference in pay is almost nothing.

[@selohcin]

I've had many arguments with my boomer father about jobs, career plans, and the job market. He simply refuses to acknowledge that anything I say is true. Points of profound importance go right over his head. All of his advice is at least 15 years out of date. Money Shack writes that Millennials might need to be a little more understanding of where their parents are coming from, but our parents have had MULTIPLE DECADES of adult life experience to learn from. As the old saying goes, "A fool at 40 is a fool forever". I am not one to disrespect the elderly, but it's clear that a great many of them have not accrued wisdom commensurate with their age.

[@stevewainwright3344]

You must be a Gen X because because Boomers are their parents. Not millennials.

[@karnez05]

Life sucks man, wish I came up with the boomers

[@starsoffyre]

I'm close to my boomer dad and we travel together quite a bit. I'm thankful that he understand the challenges millennials face. And he thinks I'm a workaholic lol

[@byurBUDdy]

I'm curious as to where the generational designations come from? Obviously it is a relatively new phenomenon as there is no record in the past where people classified themselves relative to a particular generation.

[@mj-np9sy]

Sociology, it's not a new concept, we're just limited on our nuclear knowledge of family history. I have no idea what the generation before my grandparents were called, I never even met anyone in that generation. I have no idea what their personalities, parenting, etc was like.

[@byurBUDdy]

@@mj-np9sy I was suggesting that the modern designation scheme is new, as it is non descriptive with the dates being arbitrarily defined. There are examples of generational designations in other cultures, like the Japanese who would say I was born in the Showa Era, though that idea is based on who was reigning as Emperor at the time. Perhaps that was a practice in Western cultures as well, whereby generations were designated based on someones reign. For example the Victorian Era designates the time of Queen Victoria. Though those generations would be impressively large when considering monarchs like Queen Elizabeth.

[@mj-np9sy]

@@byurBUDdy It could be something like the generations have started to deviate from one another so much more quickly nowadays. Like you mentioned, previously going by eras so way more at the macro than micro level. Like Showa, Dark Ages, or I'm sure someone more knowledgeable at history knows some specific term. Technology speeding things up? The world becoming smaller communication wise? We spent so many millenia living in huts farming how different could one generation be from the last?

[@stevewainwright3344]

I agree. Boomers are not the parents of millennials, Gen X are their parents.

[@mj-np9sy]

@@stevewainwright3344 I'm literally a millenial with a boomer parent as is almost ever millenial who was born in the 1980s. I cannot believe you people are incapable of googling. Your opinion isn't a fact.

[@stevewainwright3344]

Boomers are not the parents of millennials, Gen X are their parents.

[@arthurm.358]

It's both boomers and Gen X

[@coleycole5344]

MOST Millennials' parents are boomers. Only some are early Gen X'ers.

[@Mr.Lucess]

@@arthurm.358Yep both Boomers but older GenXers is likely our parents as Millennials.

[@DynamicHaze]

Your videos sound like a script from chat gpt very repetitive regurgitating the same information over and over nothing new. Try to change up how you present your scripts man.

[@Dead-vh4kq]

the ending was also very robotic and unemotional. it really threw me off

[@imcrazy534]

@@Dead-vh4kq its because the remedy was so general and unspecific. Had they prescribed actual situations alongside to complement their argument, the ending would have had a much more realistic and achievable message

[@Dead-vh4kq]

​@@imcrazy534 i was more commenting on the lifeless delivery of "dont forget to subscribe and see you next time". the robotic way of talking compliments the robotic script

[@imcrazy534]

@@Dead-vh4kq lol that too

[@scottdavis3571]

Gen-X are NOT Boomers.

[@starcrafter13terran]

Boomers end around 1964. Either say gen X or you're talking about people who had kids when they were around 36. Not trying to be mean. Just saying.

[@michaeldunn8972]

He's talking about ppl that are 30 but can't start a life or have political power because too many of the boomers broke the social contract amd millenials only have a small share of the wealth 4%. The hate and disfunction for our own culture and plummeting birthrates.

[@Chris-es3wf]

Nah his assessment of boomers is accurate

[@mj-np9sy]

The vast majority of millennials have boomer parents. I have boomer parents, I'm 39. My sister is genx and 49. My mom is 70. I'm the youngest.

[@syscruncher]

There are certainly things that can be done differently on both sides of this equation. GenX is sitting on the sideline watching boomers and millennials go to battle with each other, and one thing that millennials need to stop doing in improve the perception of their plight is to stop it with the whining on social media about how bad they have it. Playing the victim only works to get “likes” on social media, but does not actually translate to anything in the real world. Y’all need to find a better way to convey your position without resorting to anything that places you as a victim..use logic instead of emotion.

[@willp.8120]

I'm a Generation X, and I would say that they have a right to be dissatisfied and express their feelings. What they are saying isn't incorrect. The job market is hard for everyone right now in terms of finding employment that is sufficient to pay your bills.

[@freakattack69]

Blablabla

[@10tepeyac]

If anyone should be pissed it is the Gen-Xers and they just dealt with it. Instead of blaming everyone they should quit whining and get to work.

[@selohcin]

There really is something to be said for the stoicism demonstrated by Gen Xers. They don't have many admirable traits, but that certainly is one of them.

[@10tepeyac]

@@selohcin we’re the last generation that has some level of toughness

[@mj-np9sy]

All genx does is act like Boomer-lites and COMPLAIN about what you just COMPLAINED about in every sentence that ever comes out of a genx mouth. You literally just complained, and whined in your comment whining about whiners.

[@beng4647]

​@@10tepeyacPlato thought the same thing.