And the gag is that these Boomers are finally retiring and now they’re complaining because they’re finally starting to feel the absence of all the senior citizen programs they slashed. 😂
Boomers are no longer relevant, but they still won’t JUST LEAVE THE WORKFORCE. They need to finally just retire in their McMansions and leave us the hell alone.
No 💩. GenX and my boomer parents told me my whole life to go to college. Then when it came close to being time, they admitted that they hadn't saved anything to help me pay for it because they expected me to be able to pay myself the way they had been able to (if they went). 28 years ago when I graduated highschool it was already impossible to pay for college with a summer job. My folks said, OK then- just get scholarships. But they also REFUSED to provide their tax information so I could file FAFSA and apply for scholarships. I had to wait till I was 23 to be considered an independent adult that didn't need their info in order to start college, and I worked my way thru just to graduate in December 2008. I had everything wiped out - lost my job, got no responses to my applications for 2 years and then when I did it was just AmeriCorps, making $700/month. I lived on credit during that time and had to file bankruptcy two years later. Thankfully two terms in AmeriCorps basically paid off my Stafford loans but Stafford didn't cover everything so I got private loans too, for $12k. Interest is so outrageous that I'm still paying those off, almost 20 full years later!
Great analogy. They didn't pass the baton. And I also want there to be a discussion about how many black parents believe in their children struggling to build character. Actively holding back help and resources for their kids because "you grown now" and diminishing the hardship their young adult children go through. And I'm not talking about very poor black parents. I mean middle and upper middle class black parents that think buying your straight A student a car for their 16th birthday is spoiling them or treating them grown. Tossing them out before the clock strikes 12 on their 18th birthday. Not even attempting to save for their children's future. All in the name of "well we all had to struggle too, you have to learn on your own like we did." But why? What was the point in having kids if it wasn't to pass the baton and have them afforded the life you didnt have back then? Why is your whole schtick about teaching these kids hard life lessons in an already hard world? Help them! Then dont complain about generational wealth among black people when you arent even helping your own, ya know? This is how middle to upper class white people get ahead. They pass the effing baton. They share their resources and networks, they take financial risks on their kids when they can. They throw their back into helping their kids pursue their dreams! I dont get it.
@@greywitchwanderer9608 As a Black boomer, there isn't a baton for some of us to pass, unfortunately Many of us did'nt get paid what our degrees were worth..
@@greywitchwanderer9608 I'm not saying that there aren't parents out there that pull that but that's not a fair comparison and there's nuance to it that needs to be addressed. Those same yt parents you praise for "passing the baton" are the same ones that supported policies to keep your boomer/ gen x parents at a socio-economic disadvantage among other things. We're talking redlining, the crack epidemic, stop and frisk, the war on drugs etc. All of these systems used to break apart and destroy the black family. Not to mention that racial generational trauma is very much still reverberating til this very day. Did you know that banks wouldn't even allow blk business loans but allowed asians to have them and setup shop only in blk neighborhoods? You can't pass on what you don't have including knowledge to eventually earn those things. So while I get where you're coming from you're making too broad of a generalization and not considering historical context. And this is coming from a straight up millenial with boomer parents with one being college educated. 92 baby-90's kid 😌 a.k.a the best decade.
@@keptbygrace6221 they were good either way! I worked in health care for a while so I met a lot of boomers, and they would be like “yeah I worked part time at the grocery store to put myself through college.” When I sat and thought about Joyce Byers from stranger things working as a cashier at local hardware store and SHE STILL HAD A HOUSE, I was pissed. They had it so good and then closed up every avenue for younger people to progress, thinking we’d be so desperate for money that we would do anything
I’m a Boomer and I DID have to pay off my loan. Granted, college was much less expensive then, but we did have loans to pay off, sometimes, like me, while working minimum wage jobs because they still didn’t like women going to college so much, and tried to find ways to weed us out. In my case I had to leave after two years because the federal loan process changed their rules about who could get loans. They told me they couldn’t continue my loan because “my father could pay for college” (yes, they still thought like that, but then, that was still in a time when a woman couldn’t get a credit card in her own name and had to have her father or her husband co-sign for it) even though my father wouldn’t give me a dime for college (the old “pull yourself by your own bootstraps” era, plus he didn’t see why I should need a college education when I was “just going to get married and have children”, which I had no desire or intention to do, but he didn’t care about that), and I was in a work/study program working for a dean on campus to help pay some of my tuition. But I was still underage when they did that, so there was nothing I could do but drop out. So, on minimum wage I still spent years paying off my two year college loan. Yes, college was free at state universities in California, but since I lived in Florida at the time, it was not free. Unless you lived it or researched it, don’t assume everything was free and easy for us. You have no idea and no experience of our lives.
@@keptbygrace6221How many women do you know who aspire to a factory job? No, women wanted to get educated so they could get jobs in companies doing something better than being secretaries, maybe even in management in order to work their way up to higher levels.
I’m a Xennial and I believe that they’re doing this so that they always have worker bees 🐝. They need you to work the jobs nobody wants to work and not follow your dreams. It’s just sad that everyone is financially stressed 😫 which is impacting mental health.
Every few generations buck against the system structure and younger millennials are rejecting it. Good, as an older millennial I concur this system is set up for us to work for their benefit. They want us to be the Hunger Games tributes
It's sad everything is high: healthcare, childcare, food, gas, and debt. While everything rises the pay stays the same. The system wants us down. We all need to band together and stop working for a time. Shut the system down and see how they make it without us. We are tired. And if we want to pursue our dreams for some it's hardbecause we are exhausted from 9-5, don't bring in children. You day is gone. Smh. It's a joke. Nest they'll be charging us to breathe.
Yes, that's exactly why. They need you guys to pay into social security among other things. That's also why schools only teach children how to get jobs.
@@abena410 Lol. 😂 What school teaches kids how to get jobs??? There not a single school that teaches about financial literacy, credit, debt, etc! There's not a single school that teaches/trains people for entry-level jobs! The only thing schools do is talk down on people who work fast food and retail! "If you don't go to college, you'll end up flipping burgers for the rest of your lives!" As if that's a bad thing! 😂 They receive services from the very people they talk down on! Schools don't teach people how to be a cashier, stock inventory, push carts 🛒 together, make coffee, etc! They don't prepare people for jobs! They lie and make it seem like a college degree is superior to anyone who doesn't have one! Having a degree doesn't make anyone smarter, intelligent or intellectual! Having a degree doesn't make anyone "deserving" of a job vs. someone without one! MOST people find college degrees to be worthless! So no, school don't teach people how to get jobs!
It’s rare that you get a dream job straight out of college. Employers like a well rounded individual who is a survivor, and takes the shitty job(s) that shows character. By the way I’ve been working since 1984 and in 8 years I’ll be retiring and may work 1-2 days, 4-6 hour days in 2032. I didn’t bring anyone into this world so don’t blame everyone that is older than you. Yeah, working during the day stinks so I do shift work and see daylight year around. Your generation is lucky in that during the pandemic, and even after working at home, and 2-3 days at office is possible now with technology. Never had an office job like that.
Im a Zillenial, and i really hate when Boomers talk about how “lazy” we are. When a lot of the ones i work with have worked the same jobs for 20-40 years straight, didnt even need to get a degree first. A lot of us 20-somethings have had to hustle and work 2 or 3 jobs at a time just to survive, and that doesnt even include getting higher education which is basically another job in itself. And then they dont understand when we complain about being burnt out or depressed.
stay away from the older generation with NO DEGREES. they cause A LOT OF PROBLEMS in the workplace. This is the scheming and scamming abusive generation in the workplace. They offer nothing and do nothing and they are the problem. The problem is not capitalism. It is the older generation. These are NOT good people.
You are on point. Think about this: people who work in the same job for decades, at the same place, with the same people, and the same rules, have no clue that around them, the world is actually turning and changing. They have been frozen in a place that no longer exists. Times have changed and these Boomers would be well-advised to either keep up, or retire. I'm Gen X and I can't stand the Boomer mindset. It's time to move forward and stop with all the nostalgia.
@@ksis86 I worked 2 jobs from 2006 to 2013 (1 FT, 1 PT). I didn’t have a car and went to a FT job and then took 2 classes a semester in evening. Unfortunately, I became exhausted taking buses so I attended college around turn of century. Glad I didn’t because it was for nursing and I’d have been dead by now because of COVID.
Because we're either too busy being comfortable or too busy trying to survive and pay the bills or feed ourselves that we have no time to sit down and think or risk losing everything to protest. Why do you think there were so many protests during covid? To the point where there was an insurrection? There will be a tipping point but I'm sure the millennial generation is not going to be the one that tears the system down
@@sallyhemings2295 Not just the blacks, have you ever been to the rural parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee? That’s where the majority race hides it’s “trash” The dirty little secret of this great country. The Appalachians are full of teen moms and addicts. It’s not a race thing. It’s a class thing and trying to make it the former is why the elite get to rule the latter. Cause if we can point fingers we aren’t unified enough to make changes.
Couple of reasons. We can't afford to take off time to work to revolt because we'll become homeless. Another is fear. So many police are trigger happy and some people will run over others with a car, or even go missing
Millennial here - my father supported his wife and 3 kids as a MILKMAN without a high school diploma. Their started home? A 3-level 4 bedroom full-ass house. (Their parents helped them get the mortgage.) I got my master’s degree. Wanna know where I am? Looking to split rent with a young Gen Z lady with a nursing degree working her ass off at the hospital. The home we’re gonna share? A small one-level 2 bedroom. Neither of us have kids. We can hardly afford just ourselves. Because our parents aren’t interested in helping us out, and even if they were, the house prices and interest rates are INSANE. We can’t save anything between paying inflated rent (even having roommates as a grown-ass adult), outrageous price of essentials, and paying back predatory student loans. I LIVE IN THE SAME CITY, SAME AREA AS MY PARENTS. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
Modern-day slavery. There, I made it make sense for ya. Want a solution? Figure out how to make $ online, then move out of the country. Good luck. You deserve better than slavery!
And we're struggling, too. Those of us on fixed incomes, who were never able to climb above mediocre wages, didn't have pensions, lost the equity in our homes during the housing bust, retirement savings to medical bills, rising property taxes, etc., etc. Yeah, we live among you. Many of us on the streets, in our cars, with our kids. I know things have gotten worse. Been watching it happen. Voting to try and stop it. Now it's your turn. I'm old and tired, worried about the future of our country. Hell, I'm worried about other countries, and this planet. So VOTE, and run for office, if you think you have better answers.
Oh so just vote and 'do better'??? That's the problem. The system is rigged AGAINST us! Do you think we want Biden/Trump AGAIN??? Both should be in a nursing home.
GEN - X caused just as much trouble as the boomers, if not more. Furthermore, you all did well under George W. Your generation is the most DESPICABLE and ABUSIVE in the workplace. No sympathy should be extended to your generation.
Some of my co-workers and I don't see a traditional retirement in the future. As a Gen-X who grew up in the Midwest, in 1989 I moved out of my second foster guardian’s home when I was 19. My first apartment was a studio with underground parking for $220.00 per month. Out of high school, I was earning $7.63 / hour which was double the minimum wage at that time. My first car was a 1977 Buick Skylark that cost $500.00. From there, I got raises, and eventually earned a Bachelor of Science degree, the student loans of which were canceled in 2023. I started paying for them in 1998 and still owed fourteen grand at the time they were canceled. Even thought I've worked hard to get where I am, recently I realized that if you took 19-year-old me from 1989 and dropped me into 2019, Things would be a lot more difficult. Furthermore, if you dropped 19-year-old me in NY or CA, I’m not sure I would survive. Well, I was kinda good looking at 19, so I would have had to do some unmentionable things for money, but that only works for a short time.
I'm a Black boomer, I watched things open up for us in the 70's and then snap close after the eighties. I was blessed to get a scholarship grant, but I was never paid what my degree should've earned. MY GenX daughter got into college under the wire, just before they stopped the college grants, but our neighborhoods were going thru so much, like drugs and people being incarcerated for nothing. I don't blame the millenials because, everything seems to be piecemeal and not make sense. They can't work and afford a place to live, It is disgusting for anyone to be treated like this. I think the milennials are doing well considering, they are getting the worst deal.
Black Boomer. One can only imagine the nonsense you caused and watched in the workplace. Just as much of a problem to young BW in the workplace, as much as YT boomers. Gen - X is just as much of a problem as well.
They're calling us lazy and saying we don't want to work bc they KNOW they voted for this current situation but they don't want to be responsible because they never have had to be.
Elder millennial here 🙋🏾♀️I was told go to college or the military to be successful. Just about everyone I know has a degree and only the lawyer and architect are working within their degree. The rest of us have jobs that have nothing to do with the degree. One thing we all have in common is student debt. Furthermore, I’m a creative so I have NEVER had a job that gave me any sort of joy. I live to work to live. I’m doing what I was told I had to do. And now at 41 I’m figuring out what it is that I actually want to do with what good years I have left
Thank you! This is helpful. I've been thinking about going back to school for something I'll enjoy. But this whole another useless degree thing is something I don't want to do.
@@kenya1067and now that so many people have degrees the companies are now saying they want people with experience. People are getting these expensive degrees and aren’t able to find work.
Gen Xer here. Someone asked me how I knew I wanted to go to college and I responded that I was TOLD I was going to college. There was no other way if I wanted to be successful. Now I have 25K in student loans and I don't work in my field bc I need an additional degree in the field to make what I'm making now in another field.
My mom didn’t used to understand why I job hopped but I kept doing it anyway. Now all these years later she finally gets it & tells me how proud she is of my success. If I listened to her I wouldn’t be where I am today. Sometimes we just have to follow our own paths no matter what other ppl say. Your mom THOUGHT she was giving you good advice by telling you to get a job but now through you she knows there is more than one way to survive.
I never understood why people don’t follow their own mind. And if you listened to an “elder “ know YOU messed up bc you don’t have to do Anything you don’t want to.
I'm GenX. That young lady is on point. I am so proud of the younger generations for standing up for what they believe in. The system is has been rigged for years.
They sacrificed the pursuit of happiness of an entire generation. As an older millennial/zillennial I was pushed into college as a way out of poverty. Yo get out of generational poverty and live the dream I had to take on predatory 6 figures of student loan debt then got blamed for being in debt. Y’all laughed in our faces so some of us don’t care to support your system
Iv’e heard so many older people say “no one wants to work anymore” yeah NO CRAP. After giving all of your time and money(after taxes) you realize they’ve priced us out of existing and who cares anymore atp😂
That is a huge gaslight. The same gaslight they used during COVID. Remember when we were supposed to stay home and not work while being happy with the crappy $1200 that didn’t even cover rent? No one wants to work and sacrifice for nothing in return. What is the point? You can’t own a home, you won’t get retirement and SS is being dismantled. We will all age. What then?
She's absolutely right. I am a millennial (born in 1987) and all of the standards Boomers had are, for the most part, unobtainable for us and Gen Z. Even worse, is that it's by design. Boomers climbed that latter and set it most of these latters on fire so that we can't climb, too.
You need to understand the problems with millennial stems from Boomers and GEN-X not capitalism. Obesity rates, the student loan crisis, high usage of illegal and pharmaceutical drugs. even the horrible quality in music today. Stems from this ratscaler generation. Nothing is their fault...LOL EVERYTHING is their fault. Stay away from them in the workplace, especially the ones with no degree. To keep their jobs, they engage in abusive , despicable behavior towards the youth. These are NOT good people, the workplace.
These are the ppl who grew up in a time where the rich paid into the system at high rates, which allowed them to have their education and the ability to become home owners subsided by the gov. Those same ppl accumulated wealth thru tax funded education and ownership basically said "we dont want to pay taxes and its not our job to fund education or anyones welfare."
@Llilac2481 Don't lump us all together. I've never voted Republican. Paid my way through school, worked like a dog all my life, didn't use government handouts, lived a frugal life. Now on SSI and Medicare, barely scraping by. No pension, no 401k, no savings, no home equity. Some of us did well, despite the econmic roadblocks and disastrous policies that got put in place. But look at the homeless population rising numbers. A lot of them are my generation. Living on the streets, their cars, with their kids. It's capitalism run rampant devouring our country. Many of us tried to stop this. Vote those assholes out at the local, state, and federal levels. The wealthiest and corporate entities have done this to us. That's where you need to focus your anger and energies.
@@LoveK1 I'm a boomer, and I do try to understand. I'm not walking in your shoes, so I can never fully understand, but I do the best I can and try to encourage politicians to make changes that make life better for younger people. You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you don't even have bootstraps. All of these things being said, I do understand that I'm probably the exception to the rule in reference to boomer attitudes. I'm sorry about that. ☹
Elder Millennial! When he talked about the anxiety, I felt that! My boomer mom doesn't get it. She will ask if I could host family coming into town, or ask about my next doctor's appointment or going to the salon; all I see are dollar signs. I feel like I will never get out of the hole, and I am too bone tired to even learn anything new at my job. My discretionary funds are for when the other shoe drops, not an emergency (because thats outside of my budget). And boomers want their adult kids to take care of them?! How? I can't even afford myself.
Also baby boomers had lots of help from their parents. The golden generation my grandparents and great grandparents were the greatest hard working generation. Those generation had real sacrifice of ww1, Spanish flu, and ww2. Those generations worked in factories and farms and made sure baby boomers had all opportunities in the world.
My 62yo MIL told me how she worked at Shoney’s (a diner) and her husband worked at a grocery store And they owned, yes owned a three bedroom house. No, not today. Also, you only needed training for the high majority of high paying jobs with pension etc. back then. No college required.
In the US, if we confiscated 100% of the wealth of anyone making $200,000 or more, we’d only fund the government for a few months. Don’t demonize the rich, become one.
Man we have to work so hard to survive. When older family members get in their feelings about not receiving visits or calls I’m like???? Do yall understand we’re working way more than 40 hours to be able to function and live on our own as single people. There is no time to care so they can stay mad 🤣😩
It's nice having your own place, even if it's overly small. But that works out cause being single means not only do we have to work for our "household" but we also need to work full-time at home due to food, cleaning, and other responsibilities such as taking the time to budget or pay bills. Once you factor in sleep and hobbies there really isn't enough time for them on top of catering to social needs (which often just gets ignored now)
The point about boomers not wanting to be grandparents is so true. Couldnt even get my mom to watch my kid for an hour so I could go to the doctors and just wound up paying someone 🤡
You know what is funny? My mother’s mom used to watch my brother full time. He didn’t even live in the same country as my mom during the 80s and 90s. I was watched by my grandparents from father’s side right after school and weekends. Yet my mom told me straight up to not count on her for anything. She “raised” her children so she is tired.
You know what I noticed? A lot of the boomers kids are raising their grandchildren. Just about every grandma I talk to goes on about how she’s raising her grandkids because the parents are out running the streets. 😬 kinda weird huh?
As a Gen X , I suggest to safely travel. I started traveling in 2022, traveling to another country made me realize America is nothing but a false dream.
Went to Greece last year for a week. Opened my eyes. First thing I noticed was everyone was slim and active. Barely see people on their phone. When I was in the islands most families worked as a team. They knew their ancestors and would talk about their history.
International travel is so incredibly eye-opening. I’m so privileged that my mom is Mexican so I grew up in both the US and Mexico, I have never been fooled by the American dream because I saw the world outside of it.
I'm one of the Boomers from that generation always has said always has stated to all females live your own life the way that you want to live it !! You're not living your life by what others want you to do it their way ! The same way that my grandmother had always told me don't depend on a man are anyone else get your education build your wealth or anything else you want to do in your life !! You already have more than 100% on your own don't settle for nothing !
Yeeeeeeeeeees! I’m not even a millennial but I have been trying to explain this to my boomer parents. They are out of touch and have no idea what millennials go through. They are not lazy they are facing a situation that boomers didn’t experience.
I agree. And boomers and older do too! They just act like they dont. But my adoptive parents are even older. Dad is 88 years old and they are well off and THEY complain about how expensive just living is. Imagine that for millennials and younger but WITHOUT the foundational aspects that boomers had
People have broken out the calculators, the graphs, the comparison charts. If it's not obvious at this point why we couldn't live like boomers even if we wanted to, I'm not sure what to say. My great grandma bought a house off waitressing and running numbers. My mom and grandma bought their houses off their jobs at the cookie factory. They all insisted I go to college and get a "good job" so I wasn't like them. I went to college. All I have to show for it is debt and trauma. That good job never showed. And I know it's not just me because people have crunched the numbers are there are far more people with college degrees than jobs for people with college degrees. The shortage is in trade jobs - electricians, plumbers, etc. But people who just dropped a mint on a college degree can't afford to go back to school to learn a trade, so they end up in low to no skill jobs under the assumption it's gonna be temporary until they find something better, but for a lot of people never find anything better because all their experience is in that low/no skill job. We know exactly what happened, we know why it happened, and people are still playing dumb.
Exactly, and they bashed trade school and jobs when millennials were graduating high school. Knowing what I know now, I would have told my younger self to just get an associates and move forward.
Nearly $70,000 for my education. It's absolutely ridiculous. $400,000 for an average house in my area. To be clear I graduated before the virus. I have thousands in medical bills too. Everyone thinks that the US doesn't have economic problems like other countries, but we do have some.
nope. they are all the same. no need to differentiate or categorize. One and the same. And that same is called TROUBLE, especially in the workplace. Nothing but trouble.
The government started printing money to make up for the tax cuts they gave to corporations and wealthy individuals. Revert back to the tax rates under Truman or even Nixon and we'd be fine.
No, GEN-X can get all the smoke too. You are just as bad in the workplace , if not worse, than boomers. A lot of these liabilities these companies are incurring is because of GEN-X, because this group does NOTHING but scheme and scam in the workplace. GEN-X, without a college degree, ESPECIALLY in the workplace are NOTHING but abuse and trouble , towards younger women. No sympathy or regard should be extended to this generation. Gen - X have provided NOTHING but trouble.
The fact that a first responder and military non officers of low levels can’t buy a house tells you everything you need to know. It is not that this generation is lazy. If anything youngsters and myself have sacrificed enough social and dating life in order to survive. After COVID everything changed.
I was able to buy a house the year I enlisted in the military. I think the problem is that most kids joining the military don't have those types of goals or financial literacy and so they rush to buy Dodge Chargers at predatory 30% interest rates with their first paychecks instead of prioritizing the roof over their head.
Let’s talk about how the baby boomers never even watched their own kids. We had our older brother and sister watching us. While they were smoking crack and drinking beer. Baby boomers was out there during the freaknik. Most of them left us with whoever.
Aren’t those kids the “latchkey” kids? Man. A lady was telling me about how they used to have commercials on TV in the 80s reminding parents that they had kids. “Do you know where your children are?” Or something like that.
Literally! My grandma rags on me for choosing to be child free because she had seven kids but her oldest kid, my dad, was the one that had to raise them all. Like sure it’s easy to pop out a bunch of kids if you’re just gonna neglect them tf
Gen X is also a problem generation for parenting. Don't forget boomers took the resources, gen x pulled the corporate ladder up. Millennials are blamed for everything by both younger and older generations. Gen X single mom and a family of women never cared for my health or future. I was resented for every moment of my life and now I may not have a future, so, I feel ya man
stop acting like your generation did not cause issues. You are the WORST people to deal with in the workplace. Nothing but constant scheming and abuse, towards the younger generation.
I'm a boomer & I know it's hard for Gen X, Gen Y & Gen Z to have anything now. I worked since the age of 16. I remember times getting hard when I was in my 20's. My poor Gen X kids we're already being told by society that by the time they get out of high-school they will mostly end up in apartments instead of homes & that they may not get to retire. That's why I saved funds & the house so my Gen X & Y kids, my Gen X & Y nieces/nephews & Gen Z grandkids, great nieces/nephews can have someplace & something to have.
I’m 26 & I’m literally conflicted between getting braces and praying I’m able to renew my lease in 2026…I’m making enough to pay my bills right now but I’m so scared anything can happen in the next 2 years and it’s debilitating. I pay all this money in taxes from my employer, health insurance, dental and I STILL have to pay for braces out of pocket ($6000-7000) in my area and I don’t even know what I’m paying for…
I will not forget a boomer explaining to me how we millennials live beyond our means, what we SHOULD be able to afford, etc. She told me that she'd bought 2 different homes in the suburbs within 15 years and only paid around $60k for the second one..I asked her when and she said it was in 1990. I said " so before the market crashed and we had a recession?" She told me I "didn't get it" and couldn't understand me explaining that I can buy a home in a safe, expensive neighborhood ORRRRR in a less safe, cheaper neighborhood. She just couldn't get compute what I was saying. But she also tried to explain to me how some slave owners were kind, so she was a lost cause
Dude my mom lost her job a couple years ago and had to go through the horrendous job application process. Now she knows the BS I had to go through. It was a cathartic experience for me.
We are in different times, and every generation will have to go through different challenges, unfortunately. With that said, most generations, if you look back at the history of times, went through a recession where things were not affordable and they had to struggle in some ways. So, as a gen x i understand due to having a gen z daughter and 4 year old daughter that is apart of the youngest generation(gen alpha)that is said to be the most problematic, she will have it even harder than the last two generations before her unfortunately.
This👏🏽👏🏽because making it as a war between generations is basically not going to the roots of the real problem… so annoying. Men vs/Women millennials vs/gen z yc like wth!is this hunger games?? Btw I’am a millenial and my parents went through A LOT of sh**t so yeai I’m not doing that.
@@777SOand my parents resented every moment of my existence and now I have no family. I've been failed by family, country, education, and community. I've also spent my life being a target (as a millennial) by boomers, gen x, and even Gen z. In fact gen z is the reason millennials lost the power in the market they were garnering. Millennials started to be wholly in the labor market, we all graduated high school and had jobs. Then gen z started graduating and started fucking it up by grinding all the hours for no pay because they wanted to prove we were just bitching to bitch about things. Now they wanna act like we have been allies all along. You're a short sited dude. The generation wars were not started by millennials, but they have been the target of it since their very fucking births.
its sad and i felt bad we didn't have the big wedding the house...that kind of stress can cause medical problems fr. I now don't care and now I don't feel like I'm behind.
Did you know there are about 21 empty homes in America for every homeless person, and that the cosmetics industry made 81 billion dollars in 2022. But america's homeless folks are about 600,000. Just 600 thousand. Divide that by 50 states its only about 12,000 per each state. Imagine if we milennials and younger tanked fast food and cosmetics and real estate to finally cut them down to size and get homes and apartments affordable again.
Millennial here. Working hard doesn’t get you anywhere. You can’t live by yourself unless you’re making 6 figures a year. There is no middle class anymore. Living is becoming to expensive to afford. You either got money or you don’t. I’ve already accepted I can never buy a home. So many boomers are detached, apathetic and out of touch with young people. it’s ridiculous they just don’t get that we don’t have the same economy they had.
Every generation has it's own struggles and it's own opportunities, and for black people there have always been extra challenges across the generations. Nobody chooses which generation they are born into or the hand they are dealt.
I live in Europe, and lately I calculated my retirement money. To make it short: We have to work longer than boomers and get less money. It's depressing. Since I'm a freelancer, I have to give the government so much money - 15 years ago I could have bought a house with that money. I still can buy a luxurious apartment with it. And I have to make all of that money, so I get 1000 bucks when I retire at 70.
Did you say it took you 5 hours to commute one way to work everyday? So 10 hours daily driving just to get back home from work? How long was your work shift?
Think about this: minimum wage is the least they can legally pay you before its slave labor. Yet they take taxes after that pay. So say you get paid minimum wage. And take 30% from that. Well you are in slave labor wage bc thats below the minimum
It’s even the little things like laundry baskets that break after 3 months instead of 10 years. All these little financial drains that boomers never experienced. I hate it.
Born in 65 (1st year of Gen X thru-1980) and in 1983-1986 as a young adult in SW PA had 20-22% unemployment due to the Reagan recession and moved to DC twice for job experience. Reagan looked other way when steel jobs went overseas. You’re not the 1st generation that struggled to survive. No one had it easy and was given everything. The generations after me have to grow up and quit complaining. If you truly need a job you’ll take any job and work until another one comes along. I’m tired of all this complaining. I never reproduced (thank God) and had to raise your generation.
I was looking for this comment. I agree that every generation has their struggles. I am a millennial raising Gen z kids, and they definitely have a different perspective on life. I have had talks with them about my student debt, medical bills and all of that. They tell me if you don't like my job just quit! I said you should not quit without another one. They said oh no! 😂I said well we will not eat so😢 like any decision is just so easy😂
@@MJAE_2014 I’m 59 and 6 yrs from Medicare. I’m liked at my workplace for 17 years, get health benefits and job security. Due to age I need constant employment (some new ones don’t give you health benefits until 3 months) and employers are too fickle for me, so I’ll do my time at work. Young people are usually healthy and can skip around.
@@stephaniepersin4222 I'm 44 with 7 years at my job. I've been notified I'm m getting laid off in two months thru no fault of my own. I was laid off in 2008 thru no fault of my own. Your tenure is sheer luck.
@@ShineOnBenevolentSun I got laid off in 2012. Made my part time job then, full time. Magical fairy dust hasn’t been given to me. I always had to make it on one income and didn’t have a daddy/husband to support my azz.
God bless and protect your channel, your walk in life and everything your soul came here to do and share 🙏🏾 you are elevating the minds and hearts of people all over the world. I also have a channel and my mom is backing me up. The world needs more women like us, and I hope your mom understood that as your presence on RU-vid grew 🌍☀️💪🏾😇
Gen X here, I think I'm on the turning point of what millennials experience. I have degree and student loans. I never married and no children. Within my peer group, I was unusual in having no kids or a husband. As with all generational conversations, it's too sweeping. I have a mortgage, but I'll be paying for past retirement age at 70. As for Boomers, My mum was a care assistant (health care provider) most of her life working nights. She had to give up nursing when she had me. She has little to no pension as she could not have one as she was married, and in the UK, it was not available until the late 80s after she divorced, and when she started working for the government. facilities. Now, she is struggling to survive on a state pension and her small workplace pension. It's me that is picking up the slack. I'm trying to get her to move in with me as her place needs a lot of work, and she can not go up the stairs. My mum knows, working harder does not make things better. I understand the arguments, but I'm not sure how it's going to change, without actually getting into government.
I think I am getting tired of this conversation. we are supposed to be working together, but we just can't, too busy fighting over nothing. I won't be around long enough to see what happens when Millennials are where Boomers are now. The things that they are going to say about the upcoming generation. IT WILL BE THE SAME. because the previous generation will always complain about the next. I think we need to stop that. We can't really say anything either because, we didn't live back then to understand.
I brought a foreclosure home 4brm three walk-in closet for 12,000 i brought the land 2.8 acrs for 9,000 fix the house up $9,000 so far I'm making it but its in the country cause living in the city is high cost of living I'm a millennial
My company will pay for a limited amount Problem is, you have to work a certain period after or you'll owe it back... And they're a contractor with no control over how long employees will be needed by the government customer.
@@ShineOnBenevolentSun oh wow! So, if you lose the job, and they paid for the tuition, you have to pay it back…although losing your job was out of your control?
Thank you ! This is what I have been saying for a long while. It's so freaking frustrating to have to deal with this, while the Boomers don't understand or care.
It's an amazing video. I am proudly a mum to 2 Gen Z, and I love their take on life vs. what I grew up to aspire to as Gen X. I am 💯 discouraging my daughters from aspiring to own property if they don't want to. Rent and move around if you want to. I did not want them to go to university either. You heard me right. I am from the same neck of wood where you are from sis. Ehn. No uni. Unheard of. Yep, uni is overrated for some future careers. And when they both choose the apprenticeship route, yay, I was happy for them. Now, bear in mind, I did the 3 M's - Mortgage, Marriage, and Motherhood. Looking back, honestly, it was done under duress and societal pressure. Also, my family has 3 generations...Baby Boomer(my mum), Gen X(me), and Gen Z(my daughters). Whilst I see and agree, times have changed, my own mum just can't see it. She was still wishing her granddaughter(my child) would soon settle down in marriage. At just 21 yrs old‼️ Heck to the NO mama. Please, Mama, sit down and don't ever mention that M word again. Mtchew. So, there you have it. There are a few of us Gen X and even Baby Boomers who do know that the order of the day then is totally unachievable today.
Hello from Brazil. I am gente.....i pay a montagem but i fell no one in the world will be able to retire untill 75 years old starting from genx. World has changed. I see that situation all around the world......
Making it a war between generations is basically not going to the roots of the real problem… so annoying. Men vs/Women millennials vs/gen Z Y C or aliens like wth!is this hunger games?? Btw I’am a millenial and my parents went through a lot of sh**t so yeai I’m not doing that. I have way too much respect for their struggles,they sacrificed a lot for me to be able to be the person I’am today! I have choice today because of their sacrifice so nope. And I’m not American tho,I live in Europe so different system,social issues etc…
In the 80's they started the "trickle down theory" it sounded good but they didn't think about putting greed and ❄️ in the equation 😭 God Bless us all please 😢
I’ve literally almost begged my kids not to have kids not to buy the house ect…if they want to fine but it is NOT what it’s all sounded to be….I have 3 adult children and one is married 2 aren’t and have no interest in it or having kids I told them u have One life u do not have to follow societal NORMS….and it’s not due to my influence it’s because they see the world for what it is….my oldest has a chosen profession in an industry that is HARD to build up in he’s a body piercer…..my daughter got married and has 2 step children…my youngest inherited a trailer that belonged to my mama….good starts good jobs all on their own….but all in their 20s and have seen how hard it is financially now…I’m proud of them ….I’m happy they see they don’t have to go through BY CHOICE what other generations have and did ect…..my youngest is trying to work pay a car payment and gradually fix up minor things on the trailer….I moved in to help with that because what the lady on here said about dry wall ain’t no joke…a piece of lumbar is outrageous….so I gave up my apartment moved in to try and help I don’t make much but I want to try and make things easier for him if I can…it’s HARDER than ever to try and live now….I’m a GEN X I’m 48 and was born in 75…. VERY PROUD MAMA!!!!…my purpose was my kids not a dollar However I do know that I needed that dollar to fulfill my purpose….so at the end of the day I guess u could say the dollar was kinda my purpose intertwined into my actual REAL purpose in my heart and soul my babies
Gen X here and lm just tired of hearing both Millennials and Boomers. It's like your parent's arguing with your siblings and you just want to walk out the room!🤦🏽♀️
Gen X , hush. Gen X caused SO MANY PROBLEMS. Nothing but liability, in the workplace. ALL abuse in the workplace , towards the younger generation and ZERO productivity, causing lawsuits for these companies.
The problem are: there are too many humen alive today compare to 30 or 50 years ago. There is not enough resources to feed and provide for everyone. Sooooo yes everything will be more expensive today and in the future till the population goes down again....
My mom, a Boomer, always warned me about what a selfish generation they were. I grew up to understand what tf she meant. Alway knew my dad was a selfish piece of shit.
