Millennials and Baby Boomers Seek To Understand Each Other | Middle Ground 

Brown suit lady: I don’t think millennials work as hard Also brown suit lady: my parents paid for my college

In 1960 a high school diploma got you a factory job for life, a car, a house, and enough to support a family. Today a high school diploma will get you fries with that McDouble.

My dad paid for his whole undergrad by sweeping floors throughout college. A job sweeping floors today can barely pay for an electric bill, let alone the cost of a four-year college education.

“If I work more I won’t get free housing” can more accurately be described as “even full time I’m not being paid a living wage”

I wonder if that woman in the brown suit owns a couple businesses in Missouri

No one: Japanese mom: *brings world peace*

"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin

No one: Absolutely no one: Brown suit lady: I own a couple of businesses in Missouri

Too bad none of them own a couple of businesses in Missouri

The asian lady is very modest and i love everything about her.

Me, a Gen Z: "This should be good." *Grabs popcorn*

"I don't think millennials work hard enough" Idk, does working double or triple shifts count as "not working hard enough"?

That asian lady is a saint

“I don’t want to survive, I want to thrive” ❤️👏🏽

This was waaaaaayyy more civilized than I thought it would be.

Should get Gen Z in on the fun, we feel even more strongly about most things I think.

Whyyy do they keep interrupting the black lady???? Damn, I wanted to hear her finish a sentence because I loved her energy so much

I agree with the asian lady. Millenials are gonna have to clean up the mess that the previous generations have made.

"i wouldnt want to work without the younger generation" my poor heart melted

"Y'all aren't entitled to anything" "We just want what y'all got" Yep, fr. Also, Millennial: Explains company policy of why they can't do something, aka just doing their job Boomer: I want to speak to your manager!!

The black woman in the blue is so wavy bro. I like her.

Fat Acceptance and Non-Fat Acceptence would be an interesting one.

"do you think millennials can learn from baby boomers?" "I own a couple businesses in Missouri"

6:00 The look on the faces of the millennials tho Leslie: “We have inherited a planet on the brink of ecological collapse, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it.” Toni: “I think social media is the problem. You can’t text message break up!”

-You will survive -I don't wanna survive, I wanna *thrive* ! Now that, that hit too close to home.

The black woman and the Asian lady seem like wonderful people

I see the Asian mom and damn I just need a hug from her and tell me it will be alright. And I'm a grown ass man.

3:30 I live in southern Missouri as well and she's dead wrong. It can be VERY difficult to get low income housing, food stamps, etc.

The lady in the blue truly warms my heart

Even if they don't like to admit it, factually baby boomers have had it the best of any generation.

I feel like that final exchange perfectly encapsulates the majority of Boomer’s sentiment toward younger generations. “Don’t worry, you’ll survive,” they say as they pay us less, raise cost of living, and take away the few benefits we had remaining.

They should have a Millennials and Gen Z episode. They are so close to each other but yet so different

Baby boomers think that every problem EVER was started by social media 😑

You've no idea how much I wanted to see this. As a millennial who's the child of baby boomers and has had predominantly baby boomers teachers in college, it's so hard to get your point across to a completely different generation.

I feel like what people don't seem to understand is that Millennials are a lot older than people think. They are literally between 24 and 40. There are 40 year old millennials.

I am a Generation X ,and I feel the same with the lad who said,”I feel like you all didn’t set us up for success” I have uttered those same sentiments.

Baby boomers: " Millennials are lazy and dont work as hard as us" Me: "does my 80 hours a week working mean nothing to you??"

These boomers are surprisingly understanding. As a millennial myself, that has not been my experience.

I can’t get over that grandma 👵 and her swagger

"We don't want to survive we want to thrive!" Thank you! Say it louder for the poeple at the back.

I currently make more money than my mom has in her entire life. She owns a house. I cant even get a studio apartment. She has no high school diploma, i have an associates. I live in a 2 bedroom apt in a shady part of town with 3 people in it. Rent in my area goes up by hundreds every 6 months. My job refuses to pay me more, and finding a new job means starting at the bottom again as a contractor where i will be paid even less. I have already been homeless twice. I work 50 hours a week. At my age, my mom had me, and she wonders why i dont have kids yet. "Millenials are lazy and have it easy" my ass.

negative stereotypes have caused people to have poor viewpoints on both generations, yet watching this as a gen z i love and understand both.

Wouldn’t a cool middle ground episode be if you had teachers and teens talk about why they feel a certain type of way towards school or toward each other. If you haven’t done it already.

“We’re not entitled. We want what you got. We want the basics of the American Dream.” 👌

did I mention that I’m from Missouri and own a couple of businesses?

"I think a baby boomer is somebody who's taught to work hard", well that's not the definition

That Steve guy kind of didn’t even dropped out. He stayed for 3 years

Can we have a global warming/climate change activist vs global warming/climate change skeptics video please 😭😭

Brown suit lady is like that one person at the grocery store line that tells you to respect your elders

You should do boomers vs. gen z and their take on "OK Boomer"

"My children will have a better life than I had" Global warming: uh ha ha

"We want the basics of the American dream. Period." I felt that in my heart

"I own a couple of businesses" "I own a couple of businesses" "I own a couple of businesses" "I own a couple of businesses" Please I get it

I want to see "millennials vs gen z."

I genuinely appreciate these videos. It’s so easy to see and think of demographics as a single entity who feel x, y, and z for the same reasons. When more often how each demographic feels about x, y, and z is toning to change drastically. Why they agree or disagree with it is far more important than the the act of agreeing or disagreeing. Great content on this channel

These six individuals have my respect. Each had insightful and meaningful discussions to make. This kind of inter-generational cooperation is what we need!

I agree with the millennials on this one. By teaching us as children that we should go to college, get our degree, find love, get married, and have kids. By teaching us this, they’re hindering our adaptability in life my mentally gridlocking us into the idea of if I don’t do this, I’m a failure and a disappointment to everyone and I will fail.

This is my favourite middle ground interview so far. Everyone was super decent, respectful and thoughtful

All the millennials had to say was “ok boomers” and they would have had the high ground

I love everyone here. They all had unique perspectives and seemed so respectful.

Y’all don’t forget she owns businesses in Missouri

"To do what you love, sometimes you have to do things you hate in order to get there." Exactly that 👏🏻

I'm 23, so I guess I'm a millennial, and I work open-closes in retail because the kids in highschool NOW call in every shift or are "sick" .and when they DO come in, they're as useful as they are when they call in. There are a very select few kids who come in and are valuable. And I love and appreciate them more than they probably know even when I do tell them how much I appreciate them.

sorry, I'm a millennial and I was too busy eating avocado toast. where does she own a couple of businesses?

Spend your life worried about what's "fair" and you're gonna have a bad time.

I think this is one of my favorite ones! Just a smooth flowing, natural conversation!

guys please..i didn't catch what she said?!? what does she own?!?

Gen Z: sips tea

My favorite part about these videos are at the end when they give each other hugs and show each other respect

“I don’t wanna survive...I wanna thrive!” Good stuff!

I'm gen z and I'm concerned about the fact that when I'm older I won't be able to experience a planet that is healthy and I'm growing up where all I hear is predictions on how long the planet will last and they all are predicting irreversible changes by the time I'm in early college stages.... help save the planet with us so we can at least experience our 20s.

That CEO guy is the typical “I made it and so can you” type of person...

I relate with the conversation at 10:30 so much! I happen to make decisions that allowed me to come out in a better situation than a lot of my generation however! As a group, from maybe middle school on, we were sold a narrative that we likely won’t obtain. I’m not placing blame because a person can only teach you things they know, but I hear people judge young people everyday for making hard decisions that simply did not commonly exist in past generations. Things have changed, which can be interpreted as both good and bad, but overall we get blamed for things that have been transforming since before half of us were born and the other half were only kids. We’re simply making the most of what we have.

Junko’s smile is so bright and pleasant🙂

It would be interesting to see Generation Z in here too.

'We want the basics' EXACTLY. I feel that so much. We ask for the same things they got and they call us entitled.

“I don’t wanna survive I wanna thrive” lolol

This channel is addicting and so educating! Thank you!

"we don't wanna survive, we want to thrive." Amen bud

“i think a baby boomer is someone who is taught to work hard” babe, a baby boomer is someone born within a certain time frame - it has nothing to do with personality.

My ex father in law went into a bank in the early 70s and asked for a job. They said "are you good at maths?", in which he just replied "Yes", and he got a job. He stayed there for 10 years. These days? 5 years of studies in economics with thousands of debts and you might stay for a few years (if they even hire you, you might be 'too young' to even get the job.

Love the sharing of info from both side and the respect

"i think that's what i love about the younger generation. is that their working on themselves first as opposed to falling in love.." yes ma'am 👏

My big complaint with this assortment of people is that all of the millennials are comparatively high ranking and rich, or relatively carefree and doing what they love regardless. An entrepreneur with a successful business, a communications specialist (which I assume is in marketing and thus high paying. Even though her friends are on contract work, she isn't), and a guy in the arts who's doing what he loves and not caring so much about making money. Where are the millennials that work two-three jobs and still barely survive? Where are the millennials working unpaid overtime with no benefits? Where are the millennials who haven't been allowed to work full time because no jobs hire them for it? Where are the millennials with >$50,000 in student debt their parents forced them into? Where are the millennials who have been applying for jobs at every local business for the past year and gotten nothing? Virtually every American millennial I know fits into one of those categories, if not multiples of them, and the only working one that doesn't is a government-paid emergency dispatcher. The only people that don't "work hard" that I know are ones that are dealing with severe, untreated mental or physical barriers. Bipolar disorder, panic attacks, autism, gender dysphoria, sciatica, etc. Compared to how much my parents worked, their parents worked, and most baby boomers I've seen worked, millennials work way harder for much less and end up far more burned out as a result. My dad whines all the time about having to drive through traffic to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week at a job he's held for the past 30 years, and drinks himself into a stupor on Saturdays as a result. He gets full benefits. He makes $130,000 a year. His job is as secure as secure can be, and he works doing something he's liked enough to do for 30 years. Most baby boomers I know are either in the same state he is, are retired and happy, or got laid off at some point in the past decade and haven't held a job since because now they're dealing with the current working environment. The "millennials" were hardly a valid representation of what millennials across the United States have to deal with, just like I would have preferred they get at least one white, male, conservative baby boomer. Like my dad.

This subject calls for a much deeper conversation than this

'we want what you had' 'also what we have that you didnt had? we'll be keeping that too'

Did anyone else get pissed off a little bit when the lady spoke about social media and getting upset and online relationships as what makes millenials lives harder? I am so far in debt with my student loan and working so much to pay it off and studying at the same time that I dont have the time to be upset because someone on social media said my nose was big 😂

That black woman's spirit was beautiful. What a lovely soul 💕💕💕

To be fair, the "people work for one company for 50 years" model was gone when this boomer was in the job market. I entered the job market in 1975. Retired in 2016.. People changed jobs often. So, that's not a situation specific to millennials. Bear in mind that until the mid-late 80s we didn't have to pay for tv...cable wasn't a big thing. Most just had NBC, CBS & ABC only ... maybe a pbs station. Families had one, maybe two cars (one for each parent), and we borrowed the car when we needed it. We had one phone - a land line, and we rented the phone - didn't buy it. In the mid-late 90s suddenly people began needing their own computers, cell phones (and cell phone plans) printers, and everyone of driving age in a middle class family had a car, so Mom & Dad had to pay for car (usually) and insurance. It was a very different world when we boomers were growing up just as it was when our parents were growing up. But geez Louise, it was nothing compared to the changes we've seen from the boomer to the millennial generation. So much more materialism than I recall experiencing growing up. We didn't have everything we wanted, but we had what we needed. Aside from the injustices present during that time - and there were injustices - I would love to be back there...much less complicated. But, I suspect most folks when they reach my age begin to long for simpler times.

A very healthy discussion. No bad mouthing just a general subjective topic with everybody being respectful.

Ya that's one thing I can't stand is when they call millennials lazy. It does really depend on who you meet because all the millennials I know are working very hard for their future, myself included. There was a period where I had to work night shifts at an apple warehouse from 3pm-till 2am and then wake up at 6am for school and stay their all day to get my homework and other projects done. I'm not here to whine lol I'm just hear to say give us more credit. Lets be honest we are living in different times. There are things that have made it a bit easier on us, but there are also things that's made it harder.

Entry level job requirements: masters degree and 5 years experience

The energy of the woman in the blue is unmatched and I love her

I could feel the boomers silently judging the millennials before speaking

11:34 - "We're not entitled! We want what you got!" PREACH! That is probably the best thing to say for anyone who wants to talk about 'entitled Millenials'. What do they want? The stability, purchasing power, security, and opportunity that the Boomers had.

Try dealing with a narcissistic babyboomer boss everyday

The one thing I got from this is.... Asian Mom’s are the best!!

"I didn't like going to school so I left." "Good for you." "And I also can't be bothered to work, so I live on the street." "Good for you."

I have to disagree with the woman in black on the first point. As a disabled woman, we don’t get “hand outs”. It takes so much time and energy and effect to fill out the reams of paperwork necessary to get disability. I was BORN disabled. You have no idea how much I would LOVE to even work at Disney Store in the mall. But when I applied, I was interviewed on the spot. My power wheelchair could not fit behind the counter. And they didn’t know what else to do with me since I cannot walk. Even if I had been hired, Disability/SSI takes $1 for every $2 you make. Whatever you make at work gets deducted from disability benefits. Any increase in income counts against you in subsidized housing. The system is built to keep disabled people poor. I’m currently in college taking classes online toward my Psychology degree. I have a 3.2 GPA and do freelance writing whenever possible. Because my disability is permanent, I will always qualify for benefits on the basis of my medical records. However, I’m working hard to make sure that’s not my only income for the rest of my life. My disabled dad worked from age 14 until he was told to stop by his doctors. He often worked either 40-50 hours in a factory or had a second job. Don’t imply disability equals laziness. We want to work but we can’t. And the system stacks as much against us as possible.

Baby boomers: **able to get a lifetime job right out of high school with no experience that paid for healthcare, allowed them to afford a nice home and support an entire family. College tuition was extremely cheap** Millennials: **going to college is very competitive, outrageous home and apartment prices, and even more outrageous health care costs. Extremely difficult to find a job, even after obtaining a college degree that costed over 100k. Drowning in a terrible economy that the BOOMERS caused** Boomers: "You millennials don't ever work hard. Social media has destroyed your generation!!" Millennials: "...and somehow you guys think WE are the entitled ones?" So infuriating.