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

[PaleTay]

I'm more afraid of living to 60 than dying in my 20s. I bought a house young, it wasn't my first choice and is actually more expensive but needed a co-signer for credit reasons, I hate it but it isn't rising quickly enough to sell and buy anywhere I wanted to. There's nothing left to look forward to, and it seems like everything has completely died outside of the major cities besides restaurants and bars.

They have to handle death better than Boomers and The Silent Generation. I know so many people in their 70s and 80s who were destroyed that their mom only made it to 98, or sister died at 85, much more fucked up than most teenagers and small children were by the loss of loved ones.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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.

Oooh. Karoshi. Just like my Japanese anime.

 

[Android raptor]

If you were an asshole in life, your kids aren't taking care of you when you're older.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

They will own nothing and delude themselves to think they are happy

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Not going to get to the economic issues, but its going to be obviously bad.

The group of people that I really think are going to be hit hard are likely women. Other groups are also going to be hit bad (like men currently), but just musing specifically here.

Inb4 someone takes what I'm about to say as universal of women, but in general, I do think that women have maternal urges that will surface at some point by their 30s, and not feeding into that, not building a family, not having family life, or kids- I think that is going to take a major toll on the psyche of a lot of women.

You should be able to choose whether or not you have kids or get married, don't get me wrong;

But look at all the younger boomer or gen xers women who were ultra career oriented, didn't have children, and even with all the "success" still go through a major existential crisis and have major regrets over this.

I think that said dynamic is only going to be much, much worse for millennial women. You don't know what your future self is necessarily going to want in life, and so obviously people fuck up, but we're fucking up in such a spectacular way, and I'm just surprised that fewer people than I would have expected are catching onto this issue. Will the wish for children be significant later in life and will there probably be biological drives or wants that I'm missing out on and will only regret later? Very likely.

Now, lets make it worse (the slogan of our generation).

You also have the issue that as a culture, we're much more superficial. Women, as the dynamic goes, have social advantages when they are younger such as beauty, that fade away with age typically. And yeah, if someone wants to comment, "maybe society's standards are wrong", maybe they are, but they exist.

We have a generation of women increasingly living more and more frivolously, not settling down, full of e-thots or clubbers. I think that a lot of women in my age group are realizing that the clock is ticking and genuinely trying to settle down in some desperate attempt to have a good life in their 30s or 40s, but I just think that so much damage has been done already and that most of these women have basically fucked themselves. The decent guys have already found their S/O, and otherwise older bachelors just arent interested in older women. Looks will fade, the likes on social media from random selfies will become less and less common, and I think that theres going to be major issues for many millennial woman as they age, because they got sold a false bill of goods.

Thats the caveat, being sold a false bill of goods is pretty typical of this generation, such as "go into debt for college or university, it'll open to door everywhere". The notion that women can be free, hypersexual, and worrying about starting a family doesn't have to be a primary concern for women is another such false bill of goods, that will come calling later on.

 

[The Big O]

I don't know how much I want to PL about my own life situation, but it does apply to me since I'm a square-in-the-median millennial myself. I despaired about my own miserable dead-end status for much of the entirety of my 20s, but soon took the steps to slowly reverse my lot in life that I am at least in an upward trajectory to independent and self-sufficient living, but it's still going to take time as I build up my savings. What was the thing that turned it around? Trade school for construction and building work, oddly enough.

Some days I wish I could take what I know now back 10 years and get a better head start on my life. I'm certainly not as well-off as my parents were at the same age, but I sure as shit am trying to climb out of the crab bucket the rest of my generation would rather pull us back into.

 

[timewave0]

None of us will make it long enough for it to matter. It’s ogre

 

[Sweetpeaa]

Does anyone know what a Millennial is? It sure doesn't seem like it from the comments on this thread. Who do you think it was that fought in the Iraq war and died?

The ''Millennial culture'' is cooked up by the media. Most Millennial's are in their 30's, politically moderate and successful. The media paints the generation as a bunch of avocado toast munching college kids with bad finances needing their safe spaces on social media. Which is fucking nonsense. Most Millennial's didn't even grow up with social media. Virtually no millennial is into this cancel culture thing.

The persistent mix up with Gen Z when it comes to Millennial's is staggering.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Does anyone know what a Millennial is? It sure doesn't seem like it from the comments on this thread. Who do you think it was that fought in the Iraq war and died?

The ''Millennial culture'' is cooked up by the media. Most Millennial's are in their 30's, politically moderate and successful. The media paints the generation as a bunch of avocado toast munching college kids with bad finances needing their safe spaces on social media. Which is fucking nonsense. Most Millennial's didn't even grow up with social media. Virtually no millennial is into this cancel culture thing.

The persistent mix up with Gen Z when it comes to Millennial's is staggering.

I'd say part of that is due to the heavy overlap with the younger end of the Millennials with Generation Z.

The Late Millennials who were born in the early 90's are more likely to resemble the media's stereotypical perception of Millennials with Zoomers being like Late Millennials on PCP.

 

[joebobmurphy]

In a number of ways, I lucked out. After 2 years post college working in tech support, I worked in a warehouse for a while and my manager was a no-nonsense hardass that beat the bad attitude out of me. His son also worked there and was a fitness nut that shamed me for drinking too much diet coke. I was mad at first, but then I saw the logic when he told me that there comes a point in everyone's life where you can decide to get in shape, or not. My eating habits at the time were disgusting, so I slowly built myself up over the next five years, improving my eating, working out, and quitting feeling sorry for myself. Then I got the opportunity to run my own business and have more income to invest in things like better food, and eventually, a house; renting sucks balls. So now I spend my days working hard and improving everything in my life that I can, from my health to my living environment. No GF, but I believe that co-dependency is a killer of men, so no biggie. Forgive me if this is power levelling; I will accept all the negative ratings with grace.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

I'd say part of that is due to the heavy overlap with the younger end of the Millennials with Generation Z.

The Late Millennials who were born in the early 90's are more likely to resemble the media's stereotypical perception of Millennials with Zoomers being like Late Millennials on PCP.

That could be it. 80's born Millennial's grew up in a culture where a transgender was classified as mentally ill not an ''identity'' to be proud of. And that's just one of the many differences.

 

[Marissa Moira]

The persistent mix up with Gen Z when it comes to Millennial's is staggering.

There's so much crossover and similarities that you might as well be talking about a singular group. You could argue cultural plateaus have set in and you're producing one group.

people in their 20's and 30's pretty much behave the same despite a 10 year gap, they know similar things, and are exposed to the same outlets.

Honestly it doesn't matter those are all superficial traits. I mean currently everyone is getting double fucked financially by Biden just like they were with Obama, you book end an economy with people who make laws to try and kneecap productivity you're not going to establish a long secure trend of people being financially secure. Yeah people will put off getting married and buying houses, but eventually they will.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

My earliest years were spent with cassette tapes, voice recorders, VHS tapes, dial-up, playing outside all day, Saturday morning cartoons, actual physical real toys, and a ton of interaction with other kids. I got my first flip phone around the time I turned 13 and my mother was ready to give me some more freedom. When the smart phone came out, none of my friends wanted to come outside anymore. Social engagements stopped being a thing. No more hanging out at a friend's place, no more riding bikes all over town. It was very jarring. I always thought it was a result of growing up, but in hindsight it was the increase in use of technology and the rise of the mainstream internet.

I'm kind of outside of the norm for my generation. I don't and never did use Facebook or MySpace, I never got hooked on social media other than getting sucked into Reddit for a short stint in the earlier days of that site, before it was a leftist propaganda front. I did use snapchat for a long time, but I got rid of it because it only made me feel like I needed constant validation. It has yet taken a lot of effort to grow out of the learned helplessness of the millenial/GenZ group. Even if you distance yourself from these platforms, you will feel the effects by virtue of your peers.

There's a total lack of willingness to build oneself in this generation. There's an expectation that opportunity will come along and will sweep them to a better tomorrow. The reality is opportunities are constructed far more often than they are happened upon and this notion is not a popular one in these generations.

The global housing crisis, exacerbated by globalist elites no less, is the biggest hit to the youngest generations. There is very little opportunity to own a home without climbing your way up the market with a massive capital investment.

The youngest generations cheat themselves out of higher wages by not showing initiative and through the belief that a boss is a boss is a boss, and that your boss is therefore just and righteous and you need to do what you're told. If you ask me, the so-called Great Resignation is young people realizing that they do not in fact have to take shit from people if they don't want to, simple as.

I think many young people today have a live-fast-die-hard attitude. There is little hope for a good future amongst young people. There's unequivocal and unanimous acceptance among my peers that there is no tomorrow, whether we mean complete doomsday or that tomorrow is simply becoming very unfavourable in terms of capacity for a fulfilling life. I don't think many people in the millenial generation will set off to reproduce or even reach old age due to stress alone. Hedonistic attitudes and lack of morality or constraint will inevitably corrupt these people, whatever that means to you.

My generation grew up with some major tragedies in our earliest days of life and since those have taken place, there is no one being a beacon of hope for tomorrow. Tell me which politicians are working with heavy foresight. Tell me where the initiatives for youth went. Tell me where the good tomorrow is.

While personally I hold value in myself and the world that I can effect, this day and age has shown that not even the most powerful people in the world can effect even the smallest positive change.

There will be no system that supports the elderly in the future. Birth rates are so low that millenials won't have enough doctors and care homes to maintain the aging masses. Young adults today will work themselves to death because there will be zero room for retirement. We're all going to have to care for our parents, and inflation and living costs are and have been outpacing my appreciable wage for quite some time. I don't see it stopping. I can barely support my household, let alone attempt to support my parents when they are too old to provide for themselves. I'll retire and head straight to the tomb and I've accepted that.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

But look at all the younger boomer or gen xers women who were ultra career oriented, didn't have children, and even with all the "success" still go through a major existential crisis and have major regrets over this.

I know one like this. How she handled it was very interesting. She's a late Gen-Xer, business warrior woman, ended up in the C-Suite of a Fortune 500 company by the time she was 33. She turned 35 and it's like a bomb went off in her brain. She suddenly quit her job (throwing away everything she had built up, including a nice 6-figure income and all the associated benefits), adopted 3 elementary school age black siblings (she and her husband are some of the WASPiest people you have ever seen), and decided to become a stay at home mother. She says she couldn't be happier. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, which will likely involve multiple deaths, many liters of blood, a large edged weapon, and a high speed chase.