[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

About the same, I would guess as, previous generations. I used to think millennials were lazy and ineffectual. But having observed millennials in the workplace for some years now, I'd say millennials in general work as hard as anyone. They're certainly more openly degenerate in their off-hours, and there is definitely a vocal cadre that are utterly lazy and pathetic (who are amplified by social media, etc.), but in terms of showing up for work and putting in their time, they're generally not bad.

But we're not living in market that favors American workers. International conglomerate corporations can afford now to offer Americans less because their are people in other countries willing to work for far less than that. As such, millennials are more cynical and have lower expectations -- for example, a huge percentage of millennials will never be able to own a house. Think of the optimism that America had under Reagan. All millennials have to look forward to is stagnating wages and dealing with a 20 trillion dollar national debt that they didn't create.

[dragnet2]

for example, a huge percentage of millennials will never be able to own a house.

In CA, that's been happening for years...They're simply priced out!

[xrmusn]

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.

[Alberta's Child]

Take away every millennial with visible tattoos and so many piercings that they look like pincushions, and your labor pool shrinks dramatically.

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.