Comment by jupiter90000 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jupiter90000 | Hacker News Reader

I think this is due to economics for sure, but also I think this generation, of which I'm barely part of by the age range, has much less balls and guts than the recent previous generations.

Yes the quality of life is better, but now we have generation that just wants to coast along and ride off the successes of parents and forefathers/mothers. "I don't care if I have a shitty job and live in my parents basement, I have a smart phone and a car my parents gave me. I won't fight for better wages a better world, or my country because I'll miss watching survivor tonight. Hopefully someone gets elected to fix everything because I am too busy on facebook to vote and refuse to fight to have a life I want and can respect since it brings up uncomfortable feelings and takes effort."

I know I'm generalizing, but I'm disgusted in general with the lack of effort and spirit people in my generation seem to be putting into doing something about changing this shit. Let's just go back to our comfort cave at mom's and chill instead of giving a fuck.

I photographed students just prior to going into their senior year of high school for the last 10 years, and I don't feel it's getting any better. In this area there were two trends that stood out sharply:

1. A rise in the number of grandparents raising the kids rather than their own parents.

2. A decrease in the number of students that had any kind of plans or ambitions for post-high school life.

Private student loans are often cosigned by older family members. It doesn't make sense to take risks when defaulting on your student loans puts your parent's housing at risk.

Your comment places you likely in your early 30s, meaning you probably entered the job market before the recession when there were more jobs. If you went to college, you went before the next 7-10 years of continued tuition increases.

The realities of the economics facing young people today aren't so simple as your comment suggests. Most of those young people are living at home to be frugal. And no young person worries about missing a show, its all streaming anyways.

I hear you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Do you have any real, hard data to back your statements up, or just your own personal observations?

How would you expect this to be quantified? Just curious, I'm not planning to go researching for you. I admit it was a rant, and I'm allowed to have one from time to time.

I think their point was that making such a sweeping negative generalization against a generation (that has been utterly screwed by the fiscal and political policies of the generation before them) by attributing it to laziness and entitlement is the sort of "rant" that really warrants backing it up with some actual facts.

Thanks for your opinion.

Are you serious? All you posted was your own opinion, blatant rhetoric. Then you reply with a snarky comment. You seem pretty miserable man.

It's probably not far off... burden of debt + distraction of social media + lack of blueprint (goals) + partying = stagnation

Smartphones are the new TV; what is the statistic of how often millennials unlock their phone each day? 200+ last year. Was ~130 in 2014.

It is typical of a hamburger eating American to generalize an entire generation.

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