The "elders" you're referring to now are the ones who grew up listening to "devil music" like Rock n Roll 60 years ago or heavy metal 40 years ago or were "hippies" smoking weed and doing LSD and listening to the Beatles.
Being rebellious is not new to modern generations.
Exactly, and soon we will improve the interface between our phones and our brains to be integrated - so we won't even have to ask Siri how to build a fire, we will just 'know' it suddenly, when it's required. So the idea of needing to memorize shit will become even more useless - because we'll rely on our brain for massive parallel processing and pattern recognition - the things we still destroy computers at - and we'll just stick little SSD drives / wifi chips into our brains to have perfect instant recall of everything.
I've said to my friends before, the reason basic life bullshit isn't taught in school is its assumed your parents might actually attempt to provide you with something in life including those basics. Plus I learned taxes in freshman economics and they explain it pretty much step for step on most filing sites.
It's not actually from Socrates.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed
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So it has nothing to do with ''muh millenials'', and everything to do with some people, regardless of age, not being good with money.
Gross overgeneralization in regards to generation is stupid anyway. The comments about Baby Boomers are as bad the ones about Millenials. Not saying you do that, but I see way too many people spout that kind of crap as if they found some great insights on life.
Most millenials lack the life skill to think outside the box, which probably explains a lot of why they are the most tightly wound generation of all and get offended by so much shit. They can't see anything outside their little bubble. I figure the only reason for that is their parents didn't spank them.
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Who the hell uses cheques frequently enough that balancing the book is even needed?
I don't think I have used more than a dozen cheques in my life, most of those for paying tuition and I don't think I've ever had more than a single outstanding cheque.
For that matter, my college is the only place I can think of off hand that accepts cheques.
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Maybe we millenials should do a whining counter-initiative.
Something along the lines of "Baby boomers lack the most basic digital skills"
- "No that's not an Nigerian prince"
- "Clicking more often doesn't magically make it go faster"
- "For fucks sake, a browser toolbar is NOT helpful"
I'm a millenial apparently, and I can take apart my cars and motorcycles for major repairs, can I claim this is an essential life skill and mock all you oldies for never learning that? What about welding? Or installing electrical systems in the house?
All very applicable life skills, saved me a lot of money over the years by being able to it myself and yet they aren't even considered 'life skills' because you never learned them.