philsandifer:

doctor-segmentium:

let’s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they’re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn’t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they’re mad we aren’t just money giving/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected us to be

like look at how much millennial hate articles are things like “millennials aren’t eating cereal and it’s hurting the cereal industry” or “millennials aren’t buying houses and that’s bad” or “millennials #1 utmost priority isn’t trying to make as much money as possible” and rich folks are mad about it, so just posturing our unpredictability/nontraditional values as “laziness” gets everyone else on board the hate train in some weird attempt to collectively subdue us

A thing I feel obliged to point out periodically, and that I should probably figure out a larger piece to give it a home within, is the sudden shift in rhetoric about millennials that happened in 2008-09 or so. For ages their defining characteristic was a willingness to cooperate and an inclination towards teamwork. This was The Thing that was true about them. Then, very abruptly, the story about them became that they were “entitled.”

The obvious point to make is that this coincided with genuine precision with the election of Barack Obama, and that millennial hate exists pretty much entirely because the generation demonstrated itself to be considerably more progressive than the centrist Generation X or the neoliberal Baby Boomers.