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New York Post
By Steve Cuozzo
02/11/19
Millennials (and to some extent their Gen-X and Gen-Z brethren) hate their elders with a ferocity never before seen in our culture. Egged on by the media-savvy likes of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, they blame prolonged heat waves on boomers who supposedly stood by and cheered as the Earth went up in flames. The phrase “OK BOOMER” has now become young people’s “repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it,” marking “the end of friendly generational relations,” The New York Times declared last week. According to the article, a teen designer has already sold $10,000 worth of sweatshirts with the “OK BOOMER” slogan repeated many times on the front, ending with the line, “Have a terrible day.”
Too many millennials whine that their complacent elders bequeathed them a rotten America and a rotten world — economic malaise that will leave them with lousier lives than their parents and a planet on fire from climate change. But if they spent more time studying actual history, which can’t easily be found on iPhones, they’d know that boomers were, and remain, the most socially and environmentally conscious generation America ever has ever known. Maybe too much so — our universities’ overwhelmingly “progressive” agendas originated in the 1960s and have become more dominant ever since.
Plenty of ambitious, future-focused millennials work their hearts out at taxing, low-paying jobs. But many “working” members of their generation wear their resentment on their un-ironed sleeves.
They’re out to lunch in a different way. They seem allergic to using the phone, or even waiting on customers. A stoned Starbucks clerk, after asking me to endlessly repeat my order for a grande coffee, then repeating it to himself, asked me, “What were you having?” The zoned-out guy at Duane Reade took a $5 bill from me and inexplicably asked me what my phone number was — to the amused tittering of decidedly older customers in line behind me.
There’s no question that many younger Americans face challenging economic conditions. Despite record-high employment, many new jobs are low-paying, short-term, lacking in benefits and are subject to instant termination without warning.
Student loans, which many recipients think should be forgiven, may indeed cost more than they did when I was in college.
But is it really that much more? Despite horror stories about six-figure debt, college grads owed an average $29,200 for student loans in 2018, according to the nonprofit Institute for College Access & Success. That’s barely more than the $4,000 I owed when I graduated in 1971 — which was $25,249 adjusted for inflation in 2019 dollars.
How did I pay it off? Rather than expect instant transport into the corridors of corporate power, I, like most of my friends, worked my butt off in backbreaking, sometimes dangerous jobs that offered no more guarantees or benefits than many companies confer today.
Maybe today’s young workers who resent lunching at their desks would prefer busing tables in a high-volume steakhouse under merciless, slave-driving owners, as I first did when I got out of college.
nypost.com
Comment:
The Millennials, Gen X and Gen Z do not have any legitimate complaints about the Boomers.
One of their complaints is that Boomers destroyed the environment and caused climate change.
They do not understand that the manmade climate change issue is a mythical problem that Left Wing Politicians use to frighten people into accepting socialist servitude.
They call people who dispute the weak scientific hypothesis of manmade climate change "deniers".
The word "deniers" just like the religious term "heretics", in effect Environmentalism is a religion for some people.
Their other major complaint is Economics.
They might be right about America's standard of living going down.
We have had several Economic setbacks, but most of them have been caused by the backward policies of the Democrat Party.
One was Bill Clinton's mortgage policies that caused the Great Recession and hurt the middle class.
The other is the epic over reaction lock downs for the Corona Virus that destroyed businesses.
And now we have the Inflation/Recession crisis caused by Joe Biden and the greedy corrupt Democrat politicians.
There is still plenty of opportunity for someone who is willing to work hard and play by the rules.
Someday this generation of young folks will become the establishment and they will also be blamed.
By Steve Cuozzo
02/11/19
Millennials (and to some extent their Gen-X and Gen-Z brethren) hate their elders with a ferocity never before seen in our culture. Egged on by the media-savvy likes of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, they blame prolonged heat waves on boomers who supposedly stood by and cheered as the Earth went up in flames. The phrase “OK BOOMER” has now become young people’s “repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it,” marking “the end of friendly generational relations,” The New York Times declared last week. According to the article, a teen designer has already sold $10,000 worth of sweatshirts with the “OK BOOMER” slogan repeated many times on the front, ending with the line, “Have a terrible day.”
Too many millennials whine that their complacent elders bequeathed them a rotten America and a rotten world — economic malaise that will leave them with lousier lives than their parents and a planet on fire from climate change. But if they spent more time studying actual history, which can’t easily be found on iPhones, they’d know that boomers were, and remain, the most socially and environmentally conscious generation America ever has ever known. Maybe too much so — our universities’ overwhelmingly “progressive” agendas originated in the 1960s and have become more dominant ever since.
Plenty of ambitious, future-focused millennials work their hearts out at taxing, low-paying jobs. But many “working” members of their generation wear their resentment on their un-ironed sleeves.
They’re out to lunch in a different way. They seem allergic to using the phone, or even waiting on customers. A stoned Starbucks clerk, after asking me to endlessly repeat my order for a grande coffee, then repeating it to himself, asked me, “What were you having?” The zoned-out guy at Duane Reade took a $5 bill from me and inexplicably asked me what my phone number was — to the amused tittering of decidedly older customers in line behind me.
There’s no question that many younger Americans face challenging economic conditions. Despite record-high employment, many new jobs are low-paying, short-term, lacking in benefits and are subject to instant termination without warning.
Student loans, which many recipients think should be forgiven, may indeed cost more than they did when I was in college.
But is it really that much more? Despite horror stories about six-figure debt, college grads owed an average $29,200 for student loans in 2018, according to the nonprofit Institute for College Access & Success. That’s barely more than the $4,000 I owed when I graduated in 1971 — which was $25,249 adjusted for inflation in 2019 dollars.
How did I pay it off? Rather than expect instant transport into the corridors of corporate power, I, like most of my friends, worked my butt off in backbreaking, sometimes dangerous jobs that offered no more guarantees or benefits than many companies confer today.
Maybe today’s young workers who resent lunching at their desks would prefer busing tables in a high-volume steakhouse under merciless, slave-driving owners, as I first did when I got out of college.
Millennials’ extreme hatred for Baby Boomers is totally unjustified
Baby boomers who cried “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30” during the Vietnam War should be scared to death of millennials. Because, at least among the Twitterati, they hate us — they really, really hate …
nypost.com
Comment:
The Millennials, Gen X and Gen Z do not have any legitimate complaints about the Boomers.
One of their complaints is that Boomers destroyed the environment and caused climate change.
They do not understand that the manmade climate change issue is a mythical problem that Left Wing Politicians use to frighten people into accepting socialist servitude.
They call people who dispute the weak scientific hypothesis of manmade climate change "deniers".
The word "deniers" just like the religious term "heretics", in effect Environmentalism is a religion for some people.
Their other major complaint is Economics.
They might be right about America's standard of living going down.
We have had several Economic setbacks, but most of them have been caused by the backward policies of the Democrat Party.
One was Bill Clinton's mortgage policies that caused the Great Recession and hurt the middle class.
The other is the epic over reaction lock downs for the Corona Virus that destroyed businesses.
And now we have the Inflation/Recession crisis caused by Joe Biden and the greedy corrupt Democrat politicians.
There is still plenty of opportunity for someone who is willing to work hard and play by the rules.
Someday this generation of young folks will become the establishment and they will also be blamed.
