Gotta love Millennials...

[Yvaelle]

I think Millennials are less deluded by the american dream than earlier generations, though.

The Tyler Durden Generation:

[Hammerfest]

Not that I buy in to the generation bashing, but what exactly have the millennials' liberal arts degrees done for them?

It's done wonders! Now instead of merely asking "Would you like fries with that?" a philosophy degree will qualify them to say "Why would you like fries with that?"

[Theodarzna]

Not that I buy in to the generation bashing, but what exactly have the millennials' liberal arts degrees done for them? I'm a big fan of education, but in the internet age you don't need to spend $30,000 to learn about philosophy and art. Getting a useless degree is.....useless. Many would have been better off learning a trade and pursuing their intellectual interests on their spare time.

Millennials are a generation that might be acutely aware that education isn't for the sole purpose of becoming wealthy, tis' not those that learned things that messed up, I would say it is the simple fact that there are not enough jobs period, even if every single Millennial went to trade school the value of trades would plummet.

[McFuu]

I literally learned in this thread that I was a Millennial.

Catchy song though.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Millennials are a generation that might be acutely aware that education isn't for the sole purpose of becoming wealthy, tis' not those that learned things that messed up, I would say it is the simple fact that there are not enough jobs period, even if every single Millennial went to trade school the value of trades would plummet.

At least here in Germany it used to be the opposite. A lot of the older generation still complain how university was not intended to supply the market with educated human capital, but to learn for the sake of finding your self and all that tosh. It's another one of these phenomena where I'm not sure everyone in the generation has always seen it the same way...

[RickJamesLich]

Homeboy can sing!

[Theodarzna]

At least here in Germany it used to be the opposite. A lot of the older generation still complain how university was not intended to supply the market with educated human capital, but to learn for the sake of finding your self and all that tosh. It's another one of these phenomena where I'm not sure everyone in the generation has always seen it the same way...

Americans uniquely have a lust for money, IMHO. Calvin Coolidge even said "The Business of America, is Business." Or Morris Berman says "A nation of Hucksters."

[Cosmic Janitor]

Americans uniquely have a lust for money, IMHO. Calvin Coolidge even said "The Business of America, is Business." Or Morris Berman says "A nation of Hucksters."

Considering the costs of your education I'm surprised someone would actually dare to study anything without any tangible benefit..

[JohnBrown1917]

Kinda funny how self-hatin [X] always consider themselves to be better than those other [X]'s.

[Kantalope]

Always amusing when someone on a gaming forum, a wow one no less, complains about millennials.

Even more amusing when someone who has been born after or shortly before WW2 complains.. because you surely, as a whole, have achieved a lot. I'd like to remind you who laid the foundation for today's mess, whose generation provided the fucked up politicians which are currently ruining it for everyone. It would also help if you guys were so kind as to die with 60-70 again. That would certainly lessen the load on the 1.4~1.9 children you decided to have and the example you guys set for every generation after that. In turn we will apologize for facebook and twitter, deal?

Pretty much this. The ones complaining about millennials are the ones that created the mess in the first place. They're the ones handing out all of these trophies. Speaking of, I've yet to receive my trophy for existing. Do I have to fill out an application, or are my parents supposed to fill it out for me?

[Theodarzna]

Considering the costs of your education I'm surprised someone would actually dare to study anything without any tangible benefit..

The cost of our education is a nationally self inflicted wound. We do it purely to try and encourage that sort of action by the poor, were as the wealthy can get a much fuller liberal arts education.

Since the 60's its been somewhat of the prerogative of government to avoid another situation of protesting young people with cheap access to knowledge and education.

[twiddler]

Lyrics seem misguided. The common millennial is more commonly whining that there is no American dream (example: this forum) than sitting there deluding him/herself that they'll be a millionaire by 30. Also, find it odd that a Christian channel would publish such a song. Does that actually work? Do people convert when you're insulting them? Is that identity warfare?

[McFuu]

Considering the costs of your education I'm surprised someone would actually dare to study anything without any tangible benefit..

Honestly if people went to school to learn actual skills and degrees that could be used in the market place. And then got a job and went back to school to learn whatever crap they want to, they'd be far better off.

America has a number of bad, passed on mentalities.
- People think they are entitled to a house, yard, white picket fence, and 2 1/2 kids.
- People think college is the gateway to success, regardless of what they learned.
- People think they become incapable of learning after their mid-20's.
- People see vocational/skill schools as second best to college regardless of what they are learning.
- People think they should have a 9 to 5 office job.
- Most importantly, people carry the mentality that they can do anything they want until they are entirely too old.

[kail]

Every new generation is worse than the last. At least the old generations always seem to think so.

The middle ages were the best times I tell you!

[Dezerte]

If you mean by having more time in classroom environments sitting on their asses and being indoctrinated then absolutely. If you mean by having more knowledge about anything actually useful, then I have to disagree.

Higher degrees, better scores on tests etc.

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There is a word for this phenomena, Juvenoia. I recommend watching this Vsauce video on it, I found it very interesting.

[unfilteredJW]

Lyrics seem misguided. The common millennial is more commonly whining that there is no American dream (example: this forum) than sitting there deluding him/herself that they'll be a millionaire by 30. Also, find it odd that a Christian channel would publish such a song. Does that actually work? Do people convert when you're insulting them? Is that identity warfare?

It's Hammerfest. They've already bought into the big lie. That's why shit like this goes down easy.

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It makes me feel good, because it can only mean the End Times are upon us.

This is not a crazy thing to say at all.

Nope.

[Garnier Fructis]

Millionaire by the 30s? Yeah, welcome to every generation in America ever, and the fundamental reason why people support policies that they will never benefit from - because hey, in 20 years they'll definitely be rich, and then all these rich friendly policies they supported will come back to benefit them!

In fact, all of these are basically just complaints that you can apply to near every generation.

[breadisfunny]

And how many other generations of young people has this guy witnessed? Oh right, none. Funny how the people who complain about the youngest generation have never actually been around for any other generations young period. The baby boomers bitched about Gen X, Gen X bitches about Gen Y, so on and so on.

what is gen y and why does almost no one talk about them?

[zealo]

People have always thought that the generation coming after them is worse than their own, this is nothing new.

Eventually, Generation Y will be getting old and jaded and start whining about generation Z and so on.

[Emjay18]

Not only has this all been said before throughout history in multiple contexts, but all conceivable metrics are currently showing that the current Milliennials and Gen X'rs are the first generations in US history to be worse off than those before them.

Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it! Or complain about some kind of victim complex or whatever, anything but the facts.