The Fate of the Millennials - What happens when soyboys and unemployed college graduates get diabetes?

[El Gato Grande]

Everyone agrees the millennial generation isn’t in a secure place. While plenty of young people are advancing in their careers, building families and communities, practicing healthy lives and self actualizing, more and more are falling through the cracks, to the point where many would argue that among them dysfunction is the norm instead of the exception. All of this is happening when millennials are young—when their bodies are still relatively healthy, and have decades of work capacity ahead of them. What happens when they get old?

Whereas generations of the past found stable employment much of the time, many millennials are in poorly-paying jobs with little to no opportunity for advancement, combined with skyrocketing costs of living. Many young people have no savings, or are even saddled with debt while living paycheck to paycheck and with little prospects of making more money in the future. How will these people retire? How will they be able to pay for the numerous financial burdens age will impose on them? When someone who once went to the university of X for sociology turns 55 and develops cardiovascular problems while still having a negative net worth due to debt from the university of X, what will they do? I’ve seen this question asked multiple times in places like Reddit, and the result is usually a wave of psudeo suicidal ideation.

In less wealthy societies, the elderly are often cared for by their children as part of the family community. Gramps may have been an asshole in life, but his daughter will be willing to care for him for nothing in return. This could work for Millennials when they get too old to work and have no savings. . . except many people who fit the classic millennial stereotype aren’t having kids, combined with less than ideal rates of family dysfunction overall. It’s worse in countries with declining demographics like China and much of Europe where there will be a significant disparity between old people who need to be supported and young people who need to work and pay.

Modern American culture (at least in my opinion) teaches that pleasure is the most important pursuit in life. Young people are supposed to play games, have sex and consume product, before/during/after going to college X and following their dreams in the corporate world. If you try to plan ahead, you’re selling your soul and crushing your dreams. If you don’t like your spouse, it’s better to divorce them than to give a shit about your kids. Prostitution, antisocial behavior and drug use which will unironically ruin your life is glamorized in many spheres, because (the idea at least) is edgy and fun. I don’t think this is inherently wrong, but it’s setting up people for unhappiness later in life, because old age isn’t fun. Once your body (and mind) begin to give out, the chronic conditions set in and you can’t get it up anymore what is left if you’re a pleasure seeking atheist who has no family and believes the sole goal to aspire to as a human being is to acquire as much dopamine as possible?

How will the generation who grew up with Pokémon and social justice deal with their own mortality? Will there be a religious resurgence? Will they mature in their old age? (I believe they will, to an extent). What new thought/self help movements will arise? Will a horde of diabetic, terrified people demand the the next generation pay for every cent of their retirement in the year 2050? What new thought and self help movements will arise?

 

[Lemmingwise]

That's what vaccines are for.

 

[Chilson]

How will the generation who grew up with Pokémon and social justice deal with their own mortality?
They won't. Its easier than ever to simply dive into some entertainment escapist hellhole and not think about it.

Will there be a religious resurgence?
Doubtful, especially for the urbanites. I think spiritualism garbage will become more rampant as a coping mechanism as things get more extreme and desperate.

Will they mature in their old age? (I believe they will, to an extent).
Unlikely, old age only really transforms people who have Children/grandchildren.

What new thought/self help movements will arise?
Cults, lots of cults.

Will a horde of diabetic, terrified people demand the the next generation pay for every cent of their retirement in the year 2050?
Social security won't last through the 2020's, don't exactly see what could replace that massive multi marketing scheme.

 

[I Love Beef]

I already asked these questions and prepared.

 

[Alexios]

I think what the OP is getting is something I've been thinking of which is the 2030 problem. As an older millennials I see that myself peers aren't where our parents and grandparents were when they were our ages. The big problem is the younger boomers and older X-ers will be retired by the end of the decade. I don't think those of my generation and the generation behind us can step up and fill their shoes. Not to say there our not peers that are very motivated and capable people, I've just noticed a huge difference the 15 years I've been in the work force.
I think as the Millennials get into their middle aged years, I don't see them giving back to the younger generations like their parents and grandparents did. I really feel the bounds between the generations and society are fragmented.

 

[Tism the Return]

Hopefully they die, even better if it's by my hand and on an individual basis. A series of wars/catastrophic natural disasters that somehow only target Millenials are acceptable replacements.

 

[capitalBBustard]

That's my favourite Fast&Furious movie.

 

[Grub Nub]

This is a very big and pressing question a lot of people likely have not thought about.

I'm not sure if alcohol or tobacco use has actually increased among millennials; long-term use/aduse of such drugs cause a lot of complications for geriatrics. One may wonder if certain drug abuse is not more pervasive now, but is just more documented.

The best thing millennials (at least USA ones) can do is apply for long-term care insurance. This often covers a limited number of hours per day of in-home care. This will be crucial for a lot of millennials who do not have family (children) to assist them with daily activities as they age. Unfortunately, some US agencies are cutting long-term insurance options and a lot of people are really not educated on how the system works. In some places, A LOT of suffering has been and will continue to be caused by lack of awareness and finance/budgeting for these systems.

Tl;dr they won't adapt to aging. A lot of people haven't accounted and won't account for their own mortality. A lot of people will be in pain and, believe it or not, morphine doesn't stop people crying day and night in their last week.

 

[gang weeder]

I think what the OP is getting is something I've been thinking of which is the 2030 problem. As an older millennials I see that myself peers aren't where our parents and grandparents were when they were our ages. The big problem is the younger boomers and older X-ers will be retired by the end of the decade. I don't think those of my generation and the generation behind us can step up and fill their shoes. Not to say there our not peers that are very motivated and capable people, I've just noticed a huge difference the 15 years I've been in the work force.
I think as the Millennials get into their middle aged years, I don't see them giving back to the younger generations like their parents and grandparents did. I really feel the bounds between the generations and society are fragmented.

Don't underestimate how fake gay and useless most of the economy is. A large amount of jobs are basically welfare. I do agree millenials will be stingier with their money, but that's probably a good thing. It's long past time people figured out that debt and handouts are Bad Things.

 

[LeChampion1992]

They end up as a burden on the state with most of them ending alone isolated. However if there is a war I think we will see a massive culling of the herd too.

Millinials are the most isolated and depressed generation that everyone hates and ignores now as zoomers shit up the scene.

 

[The Magnificence]

Alternate Headline: "How Do We Get Large Swaths of the Public Who Think They Are Too veRy vErY sMarT to Not Only Fall For Our 'Divide and Label' Approach to Keeping Them In Line But to Then Discuss It Ad Nauseum On Their Super Special Autist Message Boards for Malcontents?"

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I’m a millennial and are seeing it first hand.

1. The oldest cohort of millennials are now 41. I’ve seen various attempts to slide that start date from 1981 to 1984/5. My guess is that millennials don’t want to consider themselves middle aged so maybe it’ll keep sliding back further and further much like their hairlines…

2. Many of them live pitiful lives. The feeling in the 2000s into the 2010s was that the world owed them a comfortable urban lifestyle. Many live lives of despair as they’re no better off now than a decade ago. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk probably aren’t going to be calling them up and giving them a cushy $150k/year job to do fuck all.

3. Many are absolutely not equipped to handle middle age. They thought they’d be young forever. They are delusional enough to still think their 30s are still young but it’s insurmountable in their 40s. I expect suicide rates to skyrocket amongst millennials as they get into their 40s.

4. Many are absolutely not equipped to deal with the ramifications of their poor decision making. Girls in their late 30s thinking they got some years left and more dicks to hop on before it’s cool to settle down. Guys who jerked off instead of going to the gym and their health is now shit. They think they are always going to be young and beautiful and never stopped to think what will happen when they’re not.

5. They’re not iconoclasts but consoomers. We heard endless amount of tripe about how they’re going to reshape the world and they did - by sheer inaction.

I don’t think it’ll end well because we’re deep into the “soft men create hard times” stage of life. They like to blame boomers but they have done nothing to turn anything around. There are plenty of millennials who are living life but know a shitload of millennials who believe everything is supposed to be given to them. They liked the COVID-19 checks and now have the taste for shit like UBI. It’ll be interesting to see where it goes but my guess is that suicide rates will surge and people will retreat further into consoomer utopias.

 

[El Gato Grande]

I think what the OP is getting is something I've been thinking of which is the 2030 problem. As an older millennials I see that myself peers aren't where our parents and grandparents were when they were our ages. The big problem is the younger boomers and older X-ers will be retired by the end of the decade. I don't think those of my generation and the generation behind us can step up and fill their shoes. Not to say there our not peers that are very motivated and capable people, I've just noticed a huge difference the 15 years I've been in the work force.
I think as the Millennials get into their middle aged years, I don't see them giving back to the younger generations like their parents and grandparents did. I really feel the bounds between the generations and society are fragmented.

This factors into it. More old people and less young people entails an economic shrinkage because the latter will be squeezed to care for the former, and in turn today’s millennials will have even less to pass on to their children. In China many men are facing the prospect of caring for both their parents and both their wife’s parents simultaneously due to the one child policy, combined with rising costs of living.

A devastating impact of an aging population most people don’t seem to consider is it will put pressure on our growth-dependent economy to stagnate and even shrink because more people are cashing out than buying in and the consumer base is shrinking. The current financial market is built off the prospect of infinite growth, which is why corporations and governments are so willing to take on debt. What happens when Vanguard and fortune 500s can’t give consistent positive return on investment because the number of retirees cashing out doubles the number of young savers and Ford knows they’ll be selling less and less cars every year due to a declining number of average Joes?

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

This factors into it. More old people and less young people entails an economic shrinkage because the latter will be squeezed to care for the former, and in turn today’s millennials will have even less to pass on to their children. In China many men are facing the prospect of caring for both their parents and both their wife’s parents simultaneously due to the one child policy, combined with rising costs of living.

A devastating impact of an aging population most people don’t seem to consider is it will put pressure on our growth-dependent economy to stagnate and even shrink because more people are cashing out than buying in and the consumer base is shrinking. The current financial market is built off the prospect of infinite growth, which is why corporations and governments are so willing to take on debt. What happens when Vanguard and fortune 500s can’t give consistent positive return on investment because the number of retirees cashing out doubles the number of young savers and Ford knows they’ll be selling less and less cars every year due to a declining number of average Joes?

There is a way to transition to a more sustainable business model but instead, business leaders are wailing about not having enough niggers, trannies, and faggots in management and c-suite positions. The system has driven off the cliff and will take everyone with them instead.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Alternate Headline: "How Do We Get Large Swaths of the Public Who Think They Are Too veRy vErY sMarT to Not Only Fall For Our 'Divide and Label' Approach to Keeping Them In Line But to Then Discuss It Ad Nauseum On Their Super Special Autist Message Boards for Malcontents?"

I'm a misanthrope, not a malcontent. Get it right.

Plus, I see suicide booths as a big option for many elderly millennials in the future. I plan to offer an IPO on my company Suicide Booth Inc. soon.

But, with regard to the OP, I think the only thing that millennials have to come to grips with is the fact that they will not have the retirement their "Greatest Generation" grandparents had (who retired at 55 and droped dead at 85), nor the one their "Boomer" parents (who probably retired at 60 and will live until they are 90) had. They will have to likely work well past the typical retirement age (75+), or possibly until they drop dead. However, compared to what awaits Gen α, it will look like a good deal. Retirement for them will literally mean dropping dead at work, there won't be any retirement. Their bodies get pushed down a shute and they are used for fuel with any leftover carbon being used for another purpose. Suckers.

 

[cybertoaster]

By the numbers I would be more worried about zoomers who are becoming the "failure to launch" of generations. The amount of z-gen doomers who are barely in highschool and are already giving up its staggering. The antiwork movement its mostly zoomers.

Also you mention prostitution but I see less hookers lately and even feminists are against legalizing actual prostitution. I do see a lot of camwhores and girls wanting to become camwhores which I guess that's what you mean but those are, again, mostly zoomers since millennial girls are already past their prime in most cases and can't compete with an 18 year old wearing an anime wig while shoving a horse dildo up her ass.

 

[El Gato Grande]

By the numbers I would be more worried about zoomers who are becoming the "failure to launch" of generations. The amount of z-gen doomers who are barely in highschool and are already giving up its staggering. The antiwork movement its mostly zoomers.

Also you mention prostitution but I see less hookers lately and even feminists are against legalizing actual prostitution. I do see a lot of camwhores and girls wanting to become camwhores which I guess that's what you mean but those are, again, mostly zoomers since millennial girls are already past their prime in most cases and can't compete with an 18 year old wearing an anime wig while shoving a horse dildo up her ass.

I think zoomers are overall even more dysfunctional than millennials and will lead even worse lives (I say this as a zoomer myself), but the millennial issue is more immediate as most of them are facing middle age. Prostitution thing definitely applies more to zoomers though.

 

[Ser Prize]

As a late-ish millenial(93) I see this being a big crunch. People are probably right that cults and vague gay spiritualism are gonna be the coping devices of the day.

From a personal perspective it's just kind of a stagnated generation. Boomers and Gen Xers were sold hope for the future, sold the sci fi shit. Millenials and zoomers aren't sold that; even when I was a kid we were sold that the environment is fucked and we're basically doomed. And I know it can be chalked up to personal failings but it legitmately just doesn't feel like there are that many opportunities left for careers and advancement.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

Millenials are like the worst of the 60s and 80s combined, with none of the redeeming values. They're degenerate hippy retards with stupid polycuck tastes and views, but also corporate sellout totalitarian consoomers.

 

[cybertoaster]

I think zoomers are overall even more dysfunctional than millennials and will lead even worse lives (I say this as a zoomer myself), but the millennial issue is more immediate as most of them are facing middle age. Prostitution thing definitely applies more to zoomers though.

Most of the millennials I know who have "given up" did so in their 30s and even then they didn't drop out of society just stopped pretending they were going to be somebody and stop trying to move ahead in life which has an impact for sure but its far from planning to live off your parents and neetbux for the rest of your life the moment you hit 18.

The only millennial I know that truly gave up and is on the dole its a late one thats near 40 but he had a regular life until not that long ago, just happens he lost both his parents at the same time and has no family left which practically broke him. He's a borderline alcoholic now.