Isn’t it great that we’re getting more like Europe?
Not only are they poor, they have no jobs, six figures in student debt, and will be put at the back of the line in favor of illegals and colored “youths” in the ghetto.
Highly educated, unemployed, disenchanted youngsters is a recipe for social revolution. Be prepared.
Smoke dope, hate to work, and have no ambition to raise and support a family.
They’re losers.
Fairly spot on. It’s tough for a guy to get laid when he’s a poor, unemployed loser in mom’s basement playing video games all day long. He’s pretty much squarely at the bottom of most women’s desireability list!
Save for retirement?
Who would lie to these kids like that? There is no retirement for them. They will work until they are dust.
1. Real productive jobs have disappeared, leaving them career choices of waiter or busboy;
2. Obamacare;
3. Large student debt for non-marketable degrees.
My son is a millenial; he graduated college in 2011. He and his wife have decent jobs. I would say comparable to if not a little better paying than Mrs. henkster & I had at the same age. My daugther in law had significant college debt, because she had to finance her way through college. He had a little bit. Next week all of the debt will be paid off. They lived on one income and paid debt with the other. Next up, saving for down payment on a house.
It can be done, but it takes planning and discipline.
The real problem is with marginal people of all types; those whose abilities or motivations enable them to just “get by.” They’re going to be automated and minimum-waged right out of the marketplace.
But they’re rich in government benefits and debt...
At least they can look forward to plenty of job openings in the next several years with baby boomers retiring & dying off.
Their entire universe is defined by a monitor screen and a keyboard. They count their friends by how many people, that they have never met face-to-face, "like" them.
The pro-regressive, new world disorder, stretegery is working.
Of course they’re poor, they’re just starting out. It took a lot of years and hard work before I finally figured out that the key to success is leeching off your government and your children. They’ll figure it all out in time.
They’re poor, dirty, stupid. Did I say stupid?
This explains the Tiny House “fad”, only it’s not merely a fad, it’s the only way to get out of Mommy’s basement.
Now if they could see the correlation with socialism and poverty, there would be hope.
They have to compete more directly with immigrants.
Sad article. Kids who have never even seen a good economy.
They don't care. They're waiting for all the Free Stuff Bernie promised.
Take a look around any hip town. The bearded hipsters are drinking $6 pints of beer, $6 morning coffees, and having $20 fair trade organic gluten free salads for dinner. I remember my Ramen Noodle days even after college trying to get by. Why save when mom’s basement is free. Not all. We just hired an engineer who tries hard. He had to have his ass chewed a few times to put him in his place. He never had ANYONE straighten him out so didn’t know any better.
Puritan Work Ethic:
“The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”… This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications.It judges every honorable job to be of intrinsic value, and integrates every vocation with a Christian’s spiritual life. It makes every job consequential by regarding it as the arena for glorifying and obeying God and for expressing love (through service) to a neighbor.”