The lazy, entitled millennials trope just doesn’t hold up. Whoopi in hot water again...
The lazy, entitled millennials trope just doesn’t hold up. Whoopi in hot water again...
Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.
Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.
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Speaking from a USA perspective:
I'm 34. I guess that's right in the sweet spot of middle millennials. I've been hearing how lazy and entitled I am since as long as I can remember. Almost every single one of my generational colleagues have been some of the hardest working people I've ever encountered and yet some of the most underpaid.
Millennials on average are more educated, more trained, and more productive (in the sense that we are the largest generational labor pool in a labor environment that is roughly 70% more productive than the equivalent market when baby boomers were in their 30's) than their baby boomer equivalent.
To top things off, the average wealth gap between baby boomers and millennials has more than doubled since the 70's and we own less than 5% of all US wealth.
I'm not sure how less entitled we can get, relatively speaking? What I really ever wanted was a somewhat steady, fulfilling career with some meaning and a small little place of my own to eventually retire to. Maybe enough money that I didn't have to worry too much about bills, food, and rent all of the time. We were told that so long as we worked our ass off, did well in school, got multiple degrees and certifications, put our heads down and did the hard work that we could get that. Turns out: not really true.
Same. I feel so entitled. My grandpa was able to pay for a house, two cars, a child, my grandmother's law school and nice vacations, all on a working man's salary. Sine my wife and I are both working full time, we should be able to afford way more than a shitty apartment that we never get to leave, and to start our own family. Must not have those things because we are lazy and entitled.
Well maybe if, when you were in high school working at Burger King, you put just a smidge more effort, just a pube's worth more effort, into sweeping that floor, a senior VP at Boeing would've walked in and seen you, and said "Hey kid, you've got a great work ethic. Want to be a manager overseeing the new plant?"
But you were lazy. You were putting in only 50 sweeps per minute when you could've clocked 75 spm EASY, and the SVP knew that, he saw that in your posture, so instead he just said to you "Hey can I get a napkin", and because of that lazy entitlement, WITHHOLDING those 25 spm from your employer (God bless), you missed out.
And that's just one example of millennials being entitled, really it happens all the time. And Gen Z, they don't even fetch the napkins, they just point to the dispenser on the counter, where it always is, and so there's no really no chance for them at all.
beautifully said.. the way i feel about things also is.. boomers and the immediate subsequent generations are fucking up the country and thriving.. millenials are the ones holding it together with ducttape because that's all we've got for now..
and no, im not speaking for everyone in each group i just mentioned