Millennials and Gen Z Are Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds (bloomberg.com) 420
Uneasiness and pessimism abound among the majority of the world's population. From a report: Deloitte has released its Global Millennial Survey of 13,416 Millennials (born between 1983 and 1994) spread across 42 countries and 3,009 Gen Z respondents (born between 1995 and 2002) from 10 countries. The firm has conducted the survey for the past eight years. The percentage of respondents who think that businesses are making a positive impact dropped six points from 61% in 2018 to 55%. "I would say that for businesses, the most important takeaway is the continuously diminishing trust of Millennials and Gen Zs," says Deloitte Global Chief Talent Officer Michele Parmelee.
While the two generations have strikingly similar views of the world, Parmelee said survey data shows that their points of view differ in a few significant areas, such as life priorities and their perception of society and work. Generally, only about half of both groups aspire to purchase a home, and even fewer desire to start a family. "Instead, travel and seeing the world was at the top of the list (57%) of aspirations," the report said. Only 52% of the Millennials surveyed responded that earning a high salary was a top priority while 56% of their Gen Z peers did so. And 39% of the Millennials saw starting a family as very important, while 45% of the younger cohort agreed.
While the two generations have strikingly similar views of the world, Parmelee said survey data shows that their points of view differ in a few significant areas, such as life priorities and their perception of society and work. Generally, only about half of both groups aspire to purchase a home, and even fewer desire to start a family. "Instead, travel and seeing the world was at the top of the list (57%) of aspirations," the report said. Only 52% of the Millennials surveyed responded that earning a high salary was a top priority while 56% of their Gen Z peers did so. And 39% of the Millennials saw starting a family as very important, while 45% of the younger cohort agreed.
Hedonism not a terribly inspiring mindset (Score:4, Insightful)
Finding meaning in life without religion is hard enough, without the desire to start a family it becomes almost impossible.
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Fake news.
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To find meaning you first must find a delusion...Future worm food.
Heat death of the universe, therefor hookers and blow.
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Heat death of the universe, therefor hookers and blow.
Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to, or failing that some pamphlets I might peruse?
Re:Hedonism not a terribly inspiring mindset (Score:5, Insightful)
Eh? Since when has breeding been the qualification for leading a useful life? Correct me if I am wrong but do not many religions require their teachers to dedicate their lives to their work and not to spawning offspring?
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Only a few. It's not a great survival mechanism and goes against human nature.
In the organisations that mandated chastity, it was frequently not adhered to (apart from the zealots). I guess in that context it would be great if applied to politics! The moderates would go off and reproduce, and the more extreme elements would simply remove themselves from the gene pool!
Breeding sates a natural instinct, and gives the chance for strong focus on something other than the self (though I suspect that's gone ove
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Only a few. It's not a great survival mechanism and goes against human nature.
True, that. But there are a lot of social and legal system pressures that are working against that today.
A lot of males have simply dropped out of the reproduction/romance game.
In a society where there is precious little romance, and single mothers are hailed as modern day heros, it was bound to happen.
If you lose half your assets you aren't attractive to other women, unless you are really wealthy and seeing your children grow up in freeze frame is horrifying.
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I think that was unfair to GP. He said having a family and/or religion makes it easier to find meaning in life. That's probably true.
That's totally different from saying that people succeed in finding meaning in that situation find a worse meaning.
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For you. Nice asserted conclusion. If you're so weak you need superstition and to personally breed while knowing the desire to do so is purely instinctive, you are the problem.
Life is meaningless (Score:2)
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Meh, I think trying to claim that my primary reason to live should be to exist for somebody else and that someone else's primary reason to exist should be me just had a really good sales pitch. The inverse of that is that if said person died on me - or simply stopped loving me back - I should lose my main will to live. That we need to latch on to someone else to make our lives meaningful. I could enjoy a delicious meal by myself. I could also enjoy it with someone, but it's not like their absence means I wo
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"Finding meaning in life without religion is hard enough,
without the desire to start a family it becomes almost impossible."
Fortunately there are always a few individuals who overcome their programming.
The programming for a family, of course, comes from our DNA. It's darn hard to overcome that, but in modern society there are incentives to being single.
The programming for religion comes from our parents, community and various social pressures. Humans are approaching an evolutionary state in which intelligen
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Where did I advocate for them? I posit they are the easiest ways to find meaning in life, something most of us require to be optimistic about the future.
You could also be a sociopath so you can find happiness in hedonistic nihilism. Or try to find meaning in preserving nature or helping fellow man without concentrating on a couple of small ones to which you have a personal connection.
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I'm doing fine without religion or starting a family.
There is so much more to life. Hobbies, politics, philosophy, travel, and interesting work.
Millennials and Gen Z are stuck with crap jobs, poverty, and a world that is basically screwed unless they fix their parent's mistakes.
You haven't read the article, have you? They're whining about not being able to travel the world.
They're literally complaining that they have rich people's problems!
Re:Hedonism not a terribly inspiring mindset (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm doing fine without religion or starting a family.
There is so much more to life. Hobbies, politics, philosophy, travel, and interesting work.
Doing good so far..
Millennials and Gen Z are stuck with crap jobs, poverty, and a world that is basically screwed unless they fix their parent's mistakes.
And there you have the excuses. As a middle boomer, two things I have to note. My first job was crap. I didn't boohoo about it. I went on several years of finding better and better jobs. There are good paying jobs out there. I'll not that there might be some unrealistic expectations though. I worked hard, put in extra hours as needed through my entire career. I was and still am compensated very well.
My experience her on slashdot is that there are a lot of people for whom the idea of putting in extra work is anathema to many. Certainly my experiences with millenials dovetails with that. Some of these people would leave work unfinished for the next morning that I had to finish. Gotta leave at 5:00 p.m.!
The second point is that many of your hated Boomer Generation, contrary to your blaming problems on them, spent a lot of time cleaning the world up
And finally - what is the end game? Millenials and GenX just give up, curl up and dissolve into protoplasmic goo?
I see and hear a lot of bitching and moaning about how boomers are the worst ever, the cause of every problem, and precious little actual action.
Bitching and moaning is nothing but failure wrapped up in whining. Wanna fix things? Grab a shovel and get to work.
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As a middle boomer, two things I have to note. My first job was crap
Your first job paid about $50k/year in 2019 dollars (minimum wage in the 1960s * 40hr/week, adjusted for inflation). Even with it being crap.
That $50k/year is about the same as the current median salary in the US: $59k/year. And that $59k/year is not just crap first jobs, it's all jobs.
You should probably actually realize that before you start pontificating about people bitching and moaning inappropriately. 'Cause that would prevent posts like yours where you are bitching and moaning inappropriately.
My experience her on slashdot is that there are a lot of people for whom the idea of putting in extra work is anathema to many. Certainly my experiences with millenials dovetails with that. Some of these people would leave work unfinished for the next morning that I had to finish. Gotta leave at 5:00 p.m.!
If y
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In 1970, the ecological movement was largely started. It was boomers
Guess what? Boomers didn't make a majority of voters in 1970. That took until about 1980, when your generation elected Reagan to fight against the "ecological movement".
If you don't understand that there is something pathological wishing death upon people
If you don't understand yet that you will die of old age someday, you are the one who needs that psychotherapy.
Also, if you are so self-absorbed that you are blissfully unaware of the effects of your generation's political efforts, then you are exactly the kind of person I'm talking about who made this mess and is standing in the way of cl
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A man without religion
is like a fish who has lost his bicycle.
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Literally WHAT??? "A man is not a man without family" "A man is not a man without God" "A man is not a man without land"
Plenty "wise" people vomited nonsense such as "A man is not a man without $VARIABLE", and all of that is crap. "Without X you're nothing" comes from someone who thinks "X" is the best shit since hot water and doren't give a rat's ass on the fact that you might have different needs.
Correct
I think it's "A man is not a man unless people can shame him." which is exactly what all that is.
I've always been amused at the people who decide what a man is.
Of course (Score:5, Interesting)
They're growing up
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That's what's so wrong with this article. It doesn't even say whether these are comparing responses between generations at the same age! (E.g. average reponses by 20 year olds over the past 8 years, vs. comparing 20 yr olds to 28 yr olds right now.)
I mean, come on.
Not two generations (Score:5, Insightful)
These "two generations" have such similar mindsets because this isn't two generations, this is one generation. Generations are around 20 years long; roughly people born in the 80s and 90s are Millennials. 1982-2004 was the original definition of "Millennial" by those who coined the term, and this study just splits more-or-less that range up into two half-generations. "Generation Z" are the kids born roughly between 2000 and now.
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These "two generations" have such similar mindsets because this isn't two generations, this is one generation. Generations are around 20 years long; roughly people born in the 80s and 90s are Millennials.......
And this is when I wish I had mod points, you would get them all. How can you believe even one word in an article when the author cannot count to 20
An easy solution (Score:5, Insightful)
Join a fraternal organization and do some work with people worse off than you are.
Nothing makes you more optimistic about your future with no shoes, than meeting the guy with no feet.
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Then you can keep working your way down the ladder [smbc-comics.com].
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You sound like a classic communist re-education of the intelligentsia type. Send em to the farms to learn their place in society eh?
And what do Gen-Xers think? (Score:5, Interesting)
I suspect that the answers would be similar for Gen-X. However, they may well be more focused on 'getting out' of the world of work and business, and getting into that fabled, mythic dream state of 'retirement.' Something that I suspect many in Generation-X believe is becoming farther and farther away, because of their lack of faith in business giving them the ability to make retirement into golden years.
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I guess that it doesn't help that the Gen Z folks will need to retire to Alaska, considering that most of the southern US will be unlivable thanks to the projected global warming by 2050.
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Why would anyone care enough about what GenX thinks to ask?
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Why would anyone care enough about what GenX thinks to ask?
I can tell you that people in GenX don't care enough about what GenX thinks.
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The boomers have been in control for far too long and are taking us down an unsustainable path. While I love my parents, their generation needs to gtfo of politics. They still live in a pre-global world and have such a poor understanding on how the world has changed. They worked hard and are semi-retired now.. time to let the next generation lead.
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As a Gen-Xer I can vouch for this. I'm in my late 30's and just bought my first house and this was an achievement I didn't think was going to be possible in my lifetime. Being saddled with student loan debt to get my seemingly worthless Bachelor's of Computer Science degree has put me in such a financial hole I'll probably be paying on it the rest of my dying days.
Retirement you say? What's that? Pensions? I thought those died when MTV stopped playing music videos. Like most others in my generation I have t
Re: And what do Gen-Xers think? (Score:2)
As a Gen-Xer I can vouch for this. I'm in my late 30's
You're not a Gen-Xer.
Re:And what do Gen-Xers think? (Score:4, Funny)
I suspect that the answers would be similar for Gen-X.
Gen-Xers start with the idea that life sucks, and the system is broken and unfixable, so anything good that happens is bonus.
Why wouldn't they be? (Score:5, Insightful)
- Environmentalism is all doomsday all the time.
- Politics has always been bad, but it's worse lately and jerks push it on them everywhere.
- Fun is not allow because someone will be offended or arrested.
- They don't look forward to technology improvements because of robot doomsday or some other apocalyptic story.
- They've seen a generation with limited economic progress due to globalization and 2 economic crashes.
- They have college debts.
- They can look forward to lots of hardship from government debt and paying for others' retirement with little hope the government will pay for theirs.
- People who have faith are mocked by jerks who have nothing to offer anyone.
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- People who have faith are mocked by jerks who have nothing to offer anyone.
People who have no faith are also mocked by jerks who have nothing to offer anyone.
To summarize - people are jerks.
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Environmentalism is all doomsday all the time
Well, yeah, it's for a pretty good reason that way. The planet is fucked for the next few centuries, would you rather folks sugar coat it and tell them it's going to be okay if they put a brown paper bag over their head and lie down?
Politics has always been bad, but it's worse lately and jerks push it on them everywhere
Politics are worse because people enjoy being entertained. Are you not entertained?
Fun is not allow because someone will be offended or arrested
Clearly, you're visiting that other Internet that I don't frequent.
They can look forward to lots of hardship from government debt and paying for others' retirement with little hope the government will pay for theirs
Well actually, having little hope would indicate that there's a chance to actually live that long, which seems to be a bit out
Re:Why wouldn't they be? (Score:5, Insightful)
Your reasons sound more like "Old man yells at cloud" to be perfectly honest.
Maybe. It fits the topic. Do you ever have anything positive to offer anyone? Anything positive to offer Millennials?
And "People who have faith are mocked" ? That honestly doesn't seem like a Millennial concern, and more of a Boomer concern.
You think being taught to believe in nothing and mock anyone who believes in anything doesn't lead to Millennial pessimism?
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Ummm. [wikipedia.org] You were saying?
Their Own Companies (Score:2)
Maybe the "gig economy", "tiny houses", and "working my way" isn't exactly as good a deal as yo think it is.
Swap definitions (Score:2)
13,416 Millennials (born between 1983 and 1994) spread across 42 countries and 3,009 Gen Z respondents (born between 1995 and 2002)
They inverted the terms and their definitions, right?
Let me guess (Score:2, Funny)
Let me guess, this clickbait was written by millenials? Sorry, I'm going to need to characterize these concerns as a first world problem. Millennial International: Sponsor a Millennial Today [youtube.com]
Just need better names (Score:4, Funny)
Millennials would be much happier if our corporations had snappier names:
Genl Motrs, XXon, LokHede, wMart, BerkWay, aTeeTee and uh, Apple.
Pffffff (Score:2)
This is called reaching adult-hood. It's brutal, eye-opening and rarely pleasant.
Where all your dreams and fantasies about how you THINK life is supposed to be collides with reality.
( Don't tell me how amazing the previous generations had it either. When Millennials and Gen Z get drafted to go die in some foreign war, we can talk about it. )
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Maybe they want to move somewhere different and work there?
Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re: Obviously? (Score:5, Insightful)
Nah...
I think this is what happens when they get out in the real world and start to realize not everyone gets a trophy for merely showing up.
You are exactly correct. One of the worst things done to millenials was the self esteem concept. High self esteem with zero accomplishments is about as ruinous as you can get. They tend to fall apart when the real world intervenes.
We had several millenials that expected a promotion after a couple months. They didn't work very hard, though Facebook was a job skill, and had a tendency to try to assign their work to us olde fartes.
Re: Obviously? (Score:5, Insightful)
They didn't work very hard, though Facebook was a job skill, and had a tendency to try to assign their work to us olde fartes.
And who raised them like that? Oh yeah, the generation that is moaning about how crap they are.
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Re: Obviously? (Score:5, Interesting)
Millennials and Gen Z become jaded too early in life, and in statistically impactful numbers.
I remember way back when it was genuinely fun to scrub through the intelligence and hilarity of /. comments. Now it's a total dumpster fire, just like what is happening everywhere else, online and offline. It's inescapable. But for some reason I keep fucking coming here... /. Fucking YUCK.
Kids don't grow up breaking their ankles playing in the street and eating bugs I'n their back yard anymore. They grow up HERE. On places like
I think that Millennials and Z's were raised to feel like lots of us probably feel about the abysmal state of /.'s discourse, only as applied to the entirety of 1st world human society...honestly, it's no wonder that they would lack sufficient motivation to carry the torch.
Life is short, no one cares about you...especially the people who make any sort of sociopolitical difference, so why play the game? Why not see the sights until you get so sick/injured that you don't really feel like living long enough to pay for it anyway? Chances are they've seen that happen to at least a few people in their family already, and they know that it's never going to get better...again, way too early in life.
I suspect that for Millennials and Z's there's a palpable sense that the society they work for is not worth working for because it was deteriorating before anyone asked them for permission to be born. Things are completely out of control, as always, but people are more aware of it, and much earlier in life thanks to social media and digicomms. It's right in their face every day: right place, wrong time.
These behaviors everyone complains about in millennials and z's don't come from a vacuum. It's a consequence of something that they were born into. Sure, you can point at any individual and explain to yourself how they are fucking up, but not the entire demographic as a whole. That clearly points to systemic problem that's desperately in need of a solution. But whenever anyone tries to talk about solutions, you get something resembling a contemporary /. Thread. A fucking dumpster fire.
Before millennials and z's, no generation in the history of the world had been raised with a small magic box on them every minute of every day; ringing 7-10 times a day with fraudulent solicitations. No generation in the history of the world had been raised while joined at the hip to Telecom systems designed to work like slot machines. The fabric of the modern economy is fundamentally untrustworthy and nebulous, but you HAVE to engage with it to survive. They know that and are subconsciously rejecting it.
Moreover, Millennials and z's were raised in a first world country but probably perceive it as regressing to something lesser, and right before their eyes. They were indoctrinated by Disney-esque culture to believe that the good guy always wins and that the bad guys destroy the environment with pollution and corruption. Now they see that the bad guys run everything, blue or red, and are always winning. They see that being the bad guy is the right thing to do if they are remotely interested in self preservation and are crippled by the cognitive dissonance of pervasive and blatant hypocrisy they see around them.
symptoms of a problem (Score:3)
In the 70's, roughly %30 of families had both parents working full time.* [pewresearch.org]
In 2018, that figure had doubled to about %60. * [bls.gov]
My generation was the first to be given the 'latchkey kids' label as more and more kids came home from school to an empty house, met with apathy from tired, overworked parents, and generally were left to raise themselves in front of the TV.
Now that phenomenon is even more prevalent, only these kids are digital natives. They face threats of online bullying. They are fed through a conveyor
Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Informative)
The real numbers suggest they are working the same if not more than other generations but underpaid in comparison. Ah well, it hard to be irrelevant and bitter when you know the facts!
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Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Insightful)
Underpaid, overworked, overcharged for medical insurance and education (unless they live in a state that actually gives a care about both problems)
pssst, when you start out in the workforce, you'll be paid less. And if you want more, you need to move around a bit. In my first 5 years in the workforce, I more than doubled my salary in that manner.
And if you are going to be a whiner, well - here's a dirge on the world's tiniest violin for you.
Re: Obviously? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well....then again, you are hearing these complaints from people getting fresh out of college and expecting to start off with 6 figure salaries...even with worthless degrees in gender studies.
Where are you actually hearing these complaints? It is common refrain in certain political circles but I haven't seen the people who are supposedly lodging these complaints.
In the real world I know people who are completing 4 year CSci degrees in the midwest and they're getting out to find that the 6 figure starting positions have evaporated from their market. Hell, they're lucky to pull $60k right out of college right now; which for some is barely enough for rent and student loan payments.
Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Insightful)
$60K right out of school is AMAZINGLY good!!
Geez, and where do you live where a single person can't live in a decent apt. on that salary????
If you move out of NYC or L.A......you can have a really really good life on that amount of money!! Hell, you can get really nice places for about $700/mo. And if you make a budget, you can live pretty nicely on that.
No, you won't be eating out every meal, you won't be traveling the world, you won't be buying and wearing the latest fashions or watches, etc....but then again, neither has ANY other generation before you done the same as a youngster right out of school.
Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Insightful)
Geez, and where do you live where a single person can't live in a decent apt. on that salary????
Greetings O aged one, we come in peace from the strange and distant future of the year two thousand and nineteen. *eerie theremin music*
Seriously though, you can probably still get a studio apartment in a not-so-nice part of, say, Wichita for $700/mo, but the jobs there aren't going to pay $60k.
Re: Obviously? (Score:2)
Seriously though, you can probably still get a studio apartment in a not-so-nice part of, say, Wichita for $700/mo, but the jobs there aren't going to pay $60k.
This.
Re: Obviously? (Score:5, Insightful)
No, you won't be eating out every meal, you won't be traveling the world, you won't be buying and wearing the latest fashions or watches, etc
$60k is actually enough to do all that, especially if your housing is $700 a month.
Re: Obviously? (Score:5, Insightful)
100k right out of school is, and always was, an anomaly. It only happens when supply of workers fails to meet demand in some specific field, and only lasts until market forces entice more people into the under-served field. Even in places like NYC or San Francisco.
With the exception an extremely few lucky, skilled or well-connected individuals, your first few years aren't spent rolling in piles of cash. Deal with it.
Re: Obviously? (Score:4, Interesting)
I just see a bunch of big whiners who think nobody ever had it hard before.
I started my career at $28k/year coming out of CS in '93. My wife and I ended up declaring bankruptcy two months after I graduated because we couldn't afford daycare for our newborn and pay the bills. We still got married, raised three kids, and rented 12 different apartments before we could afford a tiny home with a crappy mortgage. I didn't pay off my student loans until just a couple of years ago (don't defer payments kids - it's a killer).
it took a decade and several job changes to hit a $60k/year salary, and nearly 25 years to hit $100k. Success didn't come overnight. It took decades of long hours, several crappy jobs, and sometimes choosing the dependable job over the sexy hot thing I really wanted to do.
Most of you already won the human lottery just by being born in the USA. You live in the richest, most successful society to ever exist in human history. Now stop complaining and go make something of yourself.
Necron69
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I started my career at $28k/year coming out of CS in '93.
That salary translates to $49,518 in 2019 dollars, about sixteen percent lower than $60,000. (Yes, I can do math.)
In 1993, the average undergraduate tuition, room, and board at all institutions, including two-year and four-year, public and private, higher education institutions was $7,452. The average in-state tuition and required fees was $4,665 at four-year universities. Those numbers have doubled and even tripled since 1993.
In 1993, the average rent for an unfurnished apartment in the US was $600-ish. (A
6 figure salary??? (Score:3)
Who expects that? If so why are they so unrealistic.
Don't they use google? it says the median income for programmers is $84,280 a year. Median means half way and you have to expect to get paid less when you are first starting out, because those w more experience tend to get paid more up to a point.
Re: Obviously? (Score:3)
100k after 5 years means you have actively competed in a high demand sector and proven yourself.
100k individual income is plenty even in high cost of living areas unless you're a whiny bitch who expects a trophy house, trophy car, trophy holidays, etc..
Thinking otherwise is just plain stupid It indicates a level of greed, conspicuous consumerism, and shallowness that identifies you as the problem, not the solution.
If you really are clever enough
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A young man of previous generations could expect to start out his life with an entry level decent job that had plenty of possibility of advancement, a young wife and provide for her and their children. I don't think it's asking too much that children have an option of being raised with at least one parent in the household.
It doesn't work that way any more. One of the results of many women entering the workforce is stagnant-at-best salaries. And now the prices of durable goods just zooms, a matter of supply and demand. Houses, cars, just the market adjusting to extract the maximum people are prepared to pay
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Almost no one has been able to do that since the 60s.
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I don't care about cheap toys. I don't care about a new smartphone. I don't care about any of that crap. I want a family and I want a stable life for that family. You set about deconstructing the civilization previous generations of our people built and then condescend to and lecture men of this generation that that world was an aberration and that they should be grateful to work 60 hour weeks for crap pay? Tha
Re: Obviously? (Score:2, Troll)
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This is actually true. We've looked enough at properties in various states trying to narrow down where we feel is a tolerable balance. If you truly don't mind living in really crappy areas you can buy a place. I mean really crappy though.
At that point, you decide owning something isn't worth living THERE.
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It gets a lot easier if you say screw consumerism and try to get off the treadmill. The American dream is a lie.
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A lot work in temporary or gig economies, as it gives them the flexibility to do what they want (see the world, travel, get all the interesting experiences they see people engaging in on Facebook). That's one pressure.
People live longer, so pensions can't kick in until a later age. This means people need to spend more years working, so it's longer until they leave a job (and pass the slot to someone younger). This lengthens the time spent in the lower ranks for the same age group as compared to a couple
Re:Not incredibly pessimistic (Score:5, Interesting)
Did you even read the summary?
travel and seeing the world was at the top of the list (57%) of aspirations,
Working is so last year. Become an Instagram sensation and travel the world.
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Travel does not have to be high emission. My son has been to Japan and France. You just need to change how you do it. You fly once (to get over oceans) and then use local high speed trains, monorails, and other electric transit while in the country. Most Japanese and French, if you live the way they do, have very very low emissions.
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You fly once (to get over oceans) and then use local high speed trains, monorails, and other electric transit while in the country.
Electric airliners are not as far away as you might think, though transoceanic flights will hang onto fossil fuel much longer than commuter flights.
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Yes, I know, I saw some things on the Boeing plant tour that are in development/testing
(sigh, wish people realized change is coming fast)
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Fukushima killled ONE person. So, fewer than die from coal pollution in one DAY in the USA.
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Bullshit.
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Nice counterargument. I presume that you live in a world devoid of objective facts? [wikipedia.org]
"Deaths: 1 from radiation; 2,202 from evacuation. 45 patients were reported dead after the evacuation of a hospital in Futaba due to lack of food, water and medical care as evacuation was delayed by three days."
Deaths from coal? Let's just pull one item off the top of the stack: 600,000 Chinese coal miners, as of 2004, were suffering from Coalworker's pneumoconiosis (known as "black lung") [wikipedia.org]
WTF was that troll mod about?
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As I posted earlier, only one person died of radiation poisoning. The rest were killed by the evacuation. OP was completely correct. On top of your holier than thou asshattery, you have reading comprehension problems.
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Thorium reactors are looking really good. [wikipedia.org] As I understand it, the only reason they are not already common is that they cannot be used for producing weapons grade fissile material, consequently research was deprioritized.
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Not necessarily. Short hop flights can run all-electric, using 100 percent renewables to charge, and you can even create jet fuel from willow tree spinnies (sources: UW WSU do your own searches) or from forestry waste products
Like I said, it's 2019, not 1969.
Around here, electricity varies from 85 percent to 99 percent green. Stop living in the 60s.
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A fantasy that'll likely come true someday... is still a fantasy.
Really, it's not. [upi.com]
The first commercially viable one might not be from this company, but there is a thundering herd of working prototypes out there already.
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Instagram sensation
Right up until you have the wrong opinion and Silicone Valley and verified twitter talking heads decide to ruin your life and slander your name.
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Did you even read the summary?
travel and seeing the world was at the top of the list (57%) of aspirations,
Working is so last year. Become an Instagram sensation and travel the world.
What's the pay rate for that?
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Thaaaaanks [youtube.com].
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> Boomers messed everything up for them.
Nice generalization.
There are a few big things that have messed things up economically:
1. Healthcare
Keeps going up every year, expensive for everyone, including the boomers. Lots of reasons, but I mostly blame it on special interest money in politics.
2. College
This keeps going up, too, because of government guaranteeing loans for everyone, and increased admin in colleges.
3. Housing bust of '08
This caused a recession, and it's hard to start your career in a recessio
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They're starting to wake up to the truth that the left _never_ delivers on its promises.
Right on schedule, the smart ones are already voting R. Sure there are the ones with no brains, but who cares? They're irrelevant.
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They're starting to wake up to the truth that the left _never_ delivers on its promises.
Right on schedule, the smart ones are already voting R. Sure there are the ones with no brains, but who cares? They're irrelevant.
Don't worry - Trickle down economics will save us all.
The far right is as full of shit as the far left. In many cases, quite similar other than the rhetoric.
Re: Big surprise! (Score:2)
Either the government or the insurance companies. Take your pick.
Re:What the hell do you expect? (Score:5, Insightful)
Amusingly your belief that everything that is wrong is due to other people leaves the ones that you keep electing fuck you over and over again. Personally I think you deserve it for being so stupid. The 1% of your country who have 90% of its wealth piss themselves laughing at people like you.
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A fascinating load of old tripe. Can you quote any sources for this point of view or is it just that you fucking hate young people because you are old and a failure?