Posted on 09/20/2017 5:24:18 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
In CA, that's been happening for years...They're simply priced out!
About the same, I would guess as, previous generations. I used to think millennials were lazy and ineffectual.
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At the Last Supper a kid was observed spilling some water and the conversation turned to how sorry todays kids are and they have no work ethic.
An age old tradition that ‘we’ all are guilty of...”What is wrong with today’s generation?”
when I went to Boot camp in 1956 I am sure the ‘powers that be’ looked at us and proclaimed we were the sorriest, laziest bunch of idiots to come down the pike in a long time mainly because that was the comment when they went in earlier.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
“No one needed to take on a massive amount of debt to get a degree. They chose to do so in order to feed their desire and not their need. “
I don’t have a problem with the debt. I have a problem with the degree that put them in debt. If you are going into the hole for 50k plus, at least get a degree in engineering or some other field where you can start a life. French literature is not a degree. It’s a hobby.
I'm sure they exist, but in my line of work I have never met a recent immigrant from Asia or Latin America that had even a single tattoo.
Doesn’t depend on the Job? I mean if your flipping hamburgers at 8.00 bucks an hr. That is more than what I was getting at Boeing in 1974 $4.74 an hour..
Millenials are losing to all the GD H1B wogs
The terms millennials, boomers, gen-x, gen-y, etc are artificial constructs designed to divide people. There are no generational demarcations. People are born every day of every year, over the centuries. Always have been throughout time.
This is just more groupism pushed by the media.
I think it’s more closely related to illegal immigrants and h1b’s. You gotta fight, for your right, to po...verrrrrteee.
What, you mean that one semester shy of a degree in XYZ studies didn’t get them a six figure job?
Back in the days before high schoolers were able to get a year of college under their belts through AP classes, we entered college with 0 hours and managed to graduate with a full degree in 3 years with p/t jobs and no debt. Kids today can enter college as Sophomores and still can’t manage to graduate for 5-6 years. They think they can’t live in lowly dorms but need expensive off campus apartments and whine they have no time for p/t jobs. It’s no wonder they have debt.
How much was tuition back in the day?
Minimum wage in 1871 was $1.60. So, that $4.75 was darned good pay.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/coverage.htm
Blah. Typo, 1971!
Minimum wage in 1971 was $1.60. So you were making 3 times minimum wage.
The “have to get to college” push is huge, and I think o my lately has there been any push back at all.
Lots of useless degrees, earning crap money, many millenials feel angry. Some don’t know why, others know they have been lied to, and are angry. We are left with a generation n of pansies.
That’s because their education is 50% less in quality than the baby boomers, who never had social justice warrior classes, safe spaces, and who knows what other nonsense is being offered in lieu of knowledge useful for gainful employment in the real world. As fop the debt, those students loans are rarely used for their education.
“I tried to care about money, but I couldn’t”
Ok I was making $1.25 in 1966 doing the same work. Flipping hamburgers.. I also paid taxes and they don’t..
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