Do you think there’s an element of self-made misery to the common troubles of millennials?

[Creep3r]

There's a lot to be said about how fucked this gen is, but I'm even more concerned/curious about future generations growing up with phones/tablets glued to their faces 24/7 since birth because their parents are too lazy and irresponsible to watch them or spend time with them. Every day I see kids and babies on the streets with their faces glued to their tablets watching ElsaxSpiderman while their parents just chatter away on their phones without a care and I think "how fucked will the future world they build be? Wall-E fucked, Idiocracy fucked or will they just spend their entire lives in VR tanks?"

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

That food budget is all take out and eating out. Notice how many of the responses say something to the effect of "lol guess I should starve". The concept of buying food at a grocery store is nearly alien to some people. Hence the popularity of shit like premade meal packs delivered to your door with super simple instructions.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of being unwilling to cook unless it comes in a fucking ezpz kit. What the fuck? Half the fun of a good dish is preparation. (Unless it involves peeling potatoes, fuck that.)

 

[The Demon]

gen Z rules. millenials are gay

 

[Anonymous For This]

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of being unwilling to cook unless it comes in a fucking ezpz kit. What the fuck? Half the fun of a good dish is preparation. (Unless it involves peeling potatoes, fuck that.)

I can sometimes understand why food prep can be tiresome after a long day at work. Some days you just want to say fuck it and just order a pizza. Otherwise, you're totally right. Prepping a good meal and listening to an interesting podcast, music, book, etc is great.

I think a big problem with millennial woes has to do with costs of living. It's so easy to work remotely anymore that there's really no need to live in Manhattan or San Francisco to do a lot of tech-oriented jobs. Except people want to have that dream of a town home in San Francisco, so they either pay $3k for rent or take a mortgage out for $1mil, then wonder why they're so unhappy and stressed out about bills.

But at the same time, you could move to almost any fly over town and pick up a house under $100k and in decent shape. Houses up in Michigan's UP routinely go for $30-70K, but don't have massive floor plans or twelve international markets on the same block. But you can have an actual yard and still work your same job remotely. And if isn't for you, rent the fucker out and earn some passive income.

 

[Kulee Baba]

A big thing that's fucked up this generation is Feminism. Sorry its true.

You know it's a damn good thing that women are no longer financially dependent on men, we should be treated as equals. But the reason the Powers That Be accepted Feminism wasn't because they wanted women's rights, they wanted to double the workforce. Gen X and especially Millennials have it where being Dual Income houses is expected. And that means both partners have less time to think about themselves and their family.

Just look back culturally. Homer Simpson and Al Bundy represented the American working class. Their wives didn't work. That was normal at one time, now an utter fantasy.

 

[Irrelevant]

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of being unwilling to cook unless it comes in a fucking ezpz kit. What the fuck? Half the fun of a good dish is preparation. (Unless it involves peeling potatoes, fuck that.)

They seem to think making your own food "EVERY DAY" is either impossible or beneath them: https://twitter.com/wundergrrl/status/1125935181200744448

 

[PT 940]

Every generation is like this; people just want to say it's one group or another to make themselves feel better

 

[WhoIsSutterKane]

yea, i was a lazy piece of shit for years until i finally snapped out of the far leftist communist mindset and got a fuckin' job. no mistakes i'm still a piece of shit though...no fuckin' doubt about that.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Going on the current economic (or lack of) opportunities brought up here, I blame the fact that Millennials were brought up in the 1980s-2000s heyday of consumerism which for today is impossible especially when wages and salaries are not obtainable for their generation. It won't surprised me all the ads and commercials that Millennials were constantly exposed to growing up wired them to think they will have an upper middle class life than scrapping for the basics.

 

[theriddler3]

Younger millennial. The economy is fucking shit and dating was hard at first, but they're things most of us have adapted to.

I see the issue as twofold: I see a HUGE amount of people my age bitching that "things never fell in my lap and WHY OH WHY did partying and fucking away my late teens and early twenties not set me up for a good job and life???? ". However, you also have to look at their parents. Growing up, you couldn't do shit without getting some sort of participation prize. If you didn't get one, mommy and daddy would be in the front office losing their minds that their sweet little boy or girl was being bullied and left out.

Once you get to college and realize that the world isn't gonna reward you for just showing up, a lot of people struggled to find motivation after a few semesters. That's not to say that all millenials are like this, though. I know plenty who did their shit correctly, disciplined themselves, and are now doing well. I may be a millennial, but I'm still doing the things my parents did at their age without their financial support. It's not impossible, it's just not as easy as it used to be. And you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself.

 

[PT 522]

Yes.
If the words "in this economy?" have ever left your mouth, there is a 100% guarantee that you're just lazy. There is zero excuse for poor money sense in the internet age and blaming "muh economy" is just a way out of taking responsibility.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of being unwilling to cook unless it comes in a fucking ezpz kit. What the fuck? Half the fun of a good dish is preparation. (Unless it involves peeling potatoes, fuck that.)

I know all you millennials don't like to read so I put the text in a picture.

I agree on the cooking, it's wonderful and really improves ones life. It doesn't take that much time either, a meal superior to drive-through Burger King can be made in less time than it takes to get drive-thru Burger King and at a lesser cost. A couple of days ago I made a risotto with mushrooms fried in garlic and butter and a piece of ribeye. Time spent from pulling out the cutting board to it all being on a plate: 23 minutes. Cost: ~$4.50.

Yes.
If the words "in this economy?" have ever left your mouth, there is a 100% guarantee that the only job you've ever held was minimum wagecucking for some retail giant for 6 months, and that you couldn't tell me what a Roth 401k/marginal stock/mortgage/credit score is because your parents still take care of all your financial needs at 25. There is zero excuse for poor money sense in the internet age and blaming "muh economy" is a lazy exceptional individual's way out of taking responsibility.

Think about what people spend money on now compared to the past. So much is free now or next to free. Imagine being told as a kid/teen(if you're old enough) that you can get a thousand movies and tv-shows for $10, instead of renting a movie for $5 as was the practice. Same with music, either through piracy or Spotify-like services. CDs were expensive and you only got 8-12 songs!
A BAD computer used to cost as much as a macbook and for less than $500 someone can get a perfectly good Dell/HP/Lenovo that will last for years. Paying more than $800 for a laptop is in my opinion a complete waste and if a decent GPU isn't necessary then going down to $500 is the better option.
A good 46" TV can be had for a couple of hundred bucks, TVs used to be really expensive and much smaller. Evan a $150 phone has a better camera than what 80% of the population used in the 80's, there's no cost for film or developing it either. Kodak used to be a huge company because people spent money on film, now they're dead.

There's so much that the current generation takes for granted that used to cost a lot of money in the past and now it is either cheap or free.

 

[DangerousGas]

It's a combination of things. You've got millenials taking the boomers' rose-tinted screed as gospel, and you've got social media further compounding the sense that everyone but yourself is doing great.

Jobs haven't disappeared, the economy hasn't imploded, dating isn't impossible. All of these things just require an amount of work that most people don't actually like to talk about.

I refuse the believe that any job that was worth a damn (ie required a degree) would have taken someone on the strength of a firm handshake and a well-chosen tie, and I also don't believe that the average shut-in in the 60s would be able to meet the girl of their dreams at an ice cream parlour entirely by chance.

Internet usage and social media has made being a social isolationist less of an impediment to communication, while still maintaining the absolute limitation of actual networking and social interactions needed to get anywhere in the world.

The only thing that really has changed is the property market - houses really were cheaper relative to wages, and they've gone fucking mental thanks to the 80s.

 

[MrTickles]

Imagine growing up carefree in the golden 80's-90's with your ninja turtles, super nintendo and sony playstation, then finally getting educated and not being able to support a single mortgage on a single salary in the 00's, like your parents easily could before. You are forever beholden to land lords. You are forever renting. The shift away from STEM has left you poorly equiped for an east asian led IT revolution. Your degree in journalism is found wanting. Imagine the disdain and salt flowing through you. Suddenly, you look to haughty causes. You imagine recreating the struggles of the 1890's-1920's. You imagine muh revolutionz. You imagine you gonna make attempt no. 2 at communism. You are a millennial cuck. Kill yourself.