ParanoidObsessive posted...
Millennials constantly looking to blame all of their failings on other people is one of the things that make Millennials the worst generation.
It's kind of a meme at this point that the "participation trophy generation" has absolutely no sense of personal responsibility or accountability. This sort of thing just kind of provides evidence that it's true (regardless of whether or not it actually is).
Right, accept this falls apart instantly as soon as we step outside of Meme World.
Mountains upon mountains of evidence have already proven that Millennials at least (and Gen Z and those coming after) are much worse off in every metric that matters vs. their predecessors, specifically BECAUSE of the actions of said predecessors. Be economic prosperity, social mobility, education accessibility and rates, etc., it's all worse than generations before.
The only argument against it is there was nothing inherently uniquely bad about Boomers/Gen X that caused this. Greed and shortsightedness doesn't adhere to such strict rigors of generations, after all. But it still remains these generations doomed future ones to a lesser existence, and
they are still the ones in charge of everything.
It's uncertain at this rate if things can change the better, anyways. Cogs in the machine, and all. An aside from an *improbable* blow up and start from scratch approach, the powers that be won't relinquish their power so easily, or by just dying off.
The counterpoint to the memes is the extremely tone deaf responses like "avocado toast" and "participation trophy", except unlike memes, they actually come from the mouths of god damn Congressmen and the like. No, I'd say an entire generation has a legit bone to pick when the prior Gen, in power and who made things awful to begin with, suggest they just work 2 jobs to get through college like they did.
You know, when that was actually a feasible thing to do.
Upon many other examples.