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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
“You are Doing Capitalism Wrong and it scares me” - bitter Boomers to Millennials who are not buying into their shit (or buying their shit)
Keep in mind that the subprime mortgage crisis was at a pretty pivotal time in Millenial’s lives, and taught them that financial institutions are not on your side, will lie to you, and specifically will lie to you about what you can afford.
Like, this isn’t coming from nowhere.
I mean boomers refuse to pay a living wage to anyone and then wonder why those people don’t buy anything? I am sorry but what exactly is the disconnect here?
Millennials value work that has meaning above work that pays well and they hate that as well. It means we can’t be shut up with busy work while they’re made to seem like they’re running a well oiled machine. They come from a generation of a boss being someone who says “do what I say because I told you to” and we come from a generation who values a boss that says “what can I do for you that will help you excel at your job?”
Millennials do not cope well with meaningless busy work so their boss looks better. They don’t cope with being talked down to or not being assisted by their boss when they have a problem. They do not deal well with their innovative ideas being shut down because “that’s not how we do it here.” and I don’t see how any of those things is a problem.
Millennials are also the first generation since the internet was a prominent thing to utilize it as a source of information in a way that is empowering for each other. A single millennial can buy a product and then inform anyone who wants to know about the quality of said product. It only takes a handful of millennials to say “this is a substandard product” to render all the millions of dollars spent on advertising that product completely useless.
Big business has been a blotch on millennials lives since before most of you could even assume a role in adulthood to effect it, so you trust one another more than you trust advertisements or sponsorship, etc.
On the flip side, though, you enthusiastically will push and promote things that you love.
Big business and their baby boomer CEOs and presidents HATE this. Because it means that they can no longer provide a substandard product while making the consumer feel there is nothing better out there.
In the past, if every dish soap was awful, you just had to continue using awful dish soap. Now, you can crowd source an alternative. You can post in a forum, your facebook, a mass text, etc and say “I hate every dish soap, what can I do?” and you will be directed to actual good brands or you will be taught how to brew your own.
You’re a great generation, I’m really proud of you guys.
Seriously, tho.
I’d love to buy a house, but I can’t afford a down payment and can’t be certain that I’ll have the same income levels for thirty years and I don’t actually know whether the banks will accept my highly-fluctuating, self-employed-and-seasonal-labor income as stable enough or high enough to be approved for a mortgage.
And also every new housing development I’ve seen in the past five years has been “Executive Housing, Starting At 390K” and the realtor websites are full of last decade’s foreclosed subdivision homes in the $275K region, and there’s legit no one, including the zoning board, that’s going to help me find or make a cute little house on a tenth of an acre in the region of $50-60K, let alone every other millennial who might like to settle down in a place that suits her desires and means.
Oh, and that same zoning means five people aren’t allowed to share that $300K, 5-bedroom McMansion, because fuck us, that’s why.
And what else? The refrigerator that recently conked out on me was manufactured in 1967. That thing lasted almost fifty years, and today if I walk into a big box store’s appliance department to buy a new refrigerator they will tell me I should really buy a warranty to cover the apparently-substantial risk that it will break within two to five years.
Oh, and there’s apparently a $400ish premium to buy one with a convenient configuration because if you want the refrigerator on top and accessible without bending down for anyone taller than your average first grader there aren’t any of those in the entry-level price range. Once again, fuck us.
Then there’s the labor market itself, where “entry level” positions want three-to-five years of experience, and everybody won’t shut up about the trades but even that requires a $5K+ outlay to go to school for it, and every fast-food restaurant out there has a permanent “Now Hiring” sign up because they drive employees away as fast as they can replace them.
And so many food-service jobs involve being forced to throw away loads of food as it expires but if you eat it or take it home it’s viewed as stealing, and retail jobs sometimes require you to smash perfectly good computers with a sledgehammer so nobody can use them, and fuck all of this, yes, I’m gonna make my own goddamn laundry detergent from a recipe I found on the internet, and I’m gonna buy as much of my vegetables as possible in seed form, and I’m gonna fucking read the consumer reviews on shit before I buy it and I’m going to source a refrigerator from Cragislist for approximately the price of the warranty on a new one, and if The Market wants me to buy a house, it can bloody well wait for me to have the money.
Because seriously, with its “Ask not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economy” mindset and historic, far-reaching fuckery, the business side of the equation has little room to complain about millennials being the selfish ones.
I reblog this every single time it shows up on my dash
I’m on the Gen X/Millennial cusp so to speak, and this post is every fucking thing. Everything.
I love that he calls out Jimmy Fallon specifically.
This is my new favorite thing.
I love this so much. This is what I mean when I say that I hate when Jimmy says everyone is “so great!” Is he still great, Jimmy? Is it still funny? Fuck him and everyone else on this list who was thanked…
“Coastal elites” are in a bubble. So are white working-class Americans. See the full story (and the rest of Patrick’s tweets) here.
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I retweeted his thread the other day, but yeah. Seriously. Fuckin’ this. There’s all these sad self-recriminating articles from coastal elites talking about how they effed up the election because they didn’t understand the experiences of rural America. And that’s probably true they don’t. But as someone who grew up in a profoundly, willfully isolated part of almost-rural Missouri? The white Christians living there don’t understand the experiences of people more or less exactly like them. I picked the college I went to because it advertised itself as being very diverse, and I wanted to go someplace where I wasn’t surrounded by people exactly like me.
(For reference, in terms of how un-diverse my first 18 years were: the only non-white students in my entire kindergarten to senior year experience were an Indian-American girl in my grade and the daughter of our parish’s first Black family, who was in 2nd grade when I was in 8th. I didn’t meet an openly gay person or Jewish person or Muslim person until I was 18, guys.)
And because people in these places have basically no regular, personal interaction with Black people or Latino/as or open LGBTQA+ folks or Muslims or on and on and on, anyone who doesn’t fit the white/straight/cis/Christian profile, they find it very difficult to understand that not everyone in the world experiences the world the exact same way they do. My relatives do not understand that cops treat Black people differently than they treat them. I have tried to explain and they just assume that it must be the fault of Black people, because cops have always been good to them. It’s an uphill battle with them, one I’ve had precious little luck with in the past.
These aren’t the “rural poor” that everyone keeps talking about as being ignored and maligned in this election cycle, either. These are all very comfortable middle-class white folks. And I’m certain my dad and stepmom and aunts and uncles and some cousins just cannot understand why so many people in America are terrified down to their very bones right now. Because hey, the system and the society have always treated them right… so if someone else isn’t doing well, it must be that person’s fault.
legit, this is also my story. i graduated with 400 students in my graduating class, and only TWO of them were non-white. this is the reality of rural america. i never had a single non-white teacher all through junior high or high school. (i would like to say that we DID have a gay-straight alliance, and it was one of the only groups where i felt totally at home and comfortable, and there were about 15 of us with 2 teachers who met together each week. i am proud that we had and created that, if nothing else.)
I spent 16 years growing up in urban areas with a huge mix of races/backgrounds (seriously, military kids are the best at adapting and accepting bc every. Single. One. Comes from somewhere different) before moving to – when my parents retired – tiny, small, isolated white east Texas. So isolated that I was one of three Catholics in my school. The school was K-12 and had one 3rd grader in the elementary wing who was half black. Two middle schoolers were hispanic and I was “exotic” because my family had spent three years stationed in Spain which is “like, in South America, right?”
The new people I met tried to covert me to Christianity bc Catholics aren’t Christian??? There was a speed limit sign on the way to school, on the back of which was spray painted KKK.
The boys in my class spoke openly of Klan meetings they would be attending and I? Was. Horrified. This was … stuff of history books. The bad part of history books. The stuff in grainy pictures that went away with the Civil Rights Movement. Or so I thought.
My parents never understood why I stopped participating in school functions and why I had no boyfriends and only two friends. I tried to explain it to my father, but he just waved it off as me blowing things out of proportion.
He still tries to give me information about class reunions and I just…?? No?????
These people are still there. They have not moved from that tiny town, they have not sought to meet people different from them because they DO NOT WANT TO. Their tiny, closed minds with their community of other exactly like them make them feel safe and happy.
The idea that they just need to be introduced to diversity is one that makes me smile a little sadly, because that idea is so pure and innocent. These people are afraid of diversity, afraid in ways that make them lash out. They are proudly anti. I know that is difficult to believe, but I lived beside them. I met them.
And if you think, well, that was so long ago, Eey, you’re so old, I also moved to rural Kansas just four years ago. It was the same. It was the same.
That is why this election has me so fucked up. Because those people? They just got validated. I know they’ve always been there, but now they have a voice and a champion in the goddamn White House.
Fun Fact: In Spanish if you’re aggressively saying goodbye to someone that you never want to see again, you can say hasta nunca “see you never” and I think that’s beautiful.
in german you can say auf nimmerwiedersehen which means the same thing
auf = (in this case:) until (commonly: upon, onto, on top of, on, to, at, up, in)
nimmer = no more, never more; fusion of the words
nicht = not
mehr = more
das Wiedersehen = reencounter, reunion; noun resulting from the fusion of
wieder = again
sehen = to see, to look, to face, to view, to behold
auf Wiedersehen = good bye, see you (again)
auf Nimmerwiedersehen = good bye forever, I don’t ever want to see you again; also: good riddance
It is also being used in auf nimmerwiedersehen verschwinden = to disappear, never to be seen again.
She doesn’t have to worry about her family’s gravesites being desecrated and destroyed for an oil company.
She doesn’t have to worry about being deported.
She doesn’t have a leg to stand on when she tells people to “not riot,” and to “love racists no matter who they voted for or what they believe in.”
Who the fuck is she to tell anybody that?
She hasn’t mentioned NoDAPL, Black Lives Matter, police brutality,
or the fact that the country elected a fucking sexual predator into office.
She’s made millions of dollars starring in a movie that promotes and sensationalized rioting and rebelling against an oppressive government to the point of violence and warfare if it means achieving equality and justice.
Hell, when Mockingjay Part 1 was released in theaters, the riots in Ferguson were still happening.
How the hell is she going to tell the people who are living with oppression, inequality, and injustice every goddamned day that they’re wrong for protesting
and not “loving thy racist fucking neighbor?“
I’m not here for this patronizing, white feminist bullshit.
I don’t know who the fuck this broad thought she was empowering but she can sit the fuck down.
