Older generations should start helping millenials

[stabetha]

Shut the fuck up, how is it millennials fault the economy collapsed in 08'? I mean if you're going to bitch about not thinking about the future that stands out as a much more egregious case of it. Not, I spent thousands of dollars to get a degree for a job that bottomed out.

and that was the first time the economy collapsed

[RaoBurning]

How can you have 13K in medical debt? How is that possible?

I live in the US. One trip to the ER will do it. I didn't even take an ambulance and nobody had to cut me up. Stupid ass kidney stone. If I'd known my insides weren't exploding I'd have stayed home and smoked a joint or something.

[Enthusiastic Steward]

I live in the US. One trip to the ER will do it. I didn't even take an ambulance and nobody had to cut me up. Stupid ass kidney stone. If I'd known my insides weren't exploding I'd have stayed home and smoked a joint or something.

I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but for kidney stones a single joint isn't going to do the trick.

[RaoBurning]

What a joke post. Firstly it is Generation X is the FIRST generation to not do better than their parents. It is generally considered that Generation Y is the start of the Millennial generation.

But I will admit that Millennials do have it rough. Housing prices and rent are totally out of control, jobs are slowly being automated putting otherwise good careers on the skids (Lawyers anyone?).

Helping them out though isn't the answer. One could argue that helping them out to the degree that we have has been the problem to start with. They need to learn money and realize that they cannot afford to pay for that $6 latte or that $10 gourmet breakfast sandwich.

I'd say trashing the economy and pulling up the very ladders that let the prior generation achieve such prosperity was the start of the problem, but that's just me. And that $10 sandwich? One of those a day for a year wouldn't put a fuck-all dent in most people's student loans, or go toward anything more useful than a porn subscription, so I'm not sure what you're on about.

I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but for kidney stones a single joint isn't going to do the trick.

Just getting it down the first pipe is all the help I really needed. The constant pain during urination I could handle fine sober, by comparison. After the initial shot of morphine in the hospital I never took any pain meds/bong rips.

[Scottyjscizzle]

No problem was ever solved by throwing more money at it, only burried deeper.

My ruptured gallbladder went away and i have been fine since, after paying for surgery.

[Enthusiastic Steward]

Just getting it down the first pipe is all the help I really needed. The constant pain during urination I could handle fine sober, by comparison. After the initial shot of morphine in the hospital I never took any pain meds/bong rips.

Then count yourself lucky. I've never had them *immediately dooms self to get them next week* but I know three people who've had them and they've all had a more arduous experience then you did. One of my coworkers was out for a week, and this is someone who never misses a day for anything.

[SupBrah]

They don't call millennials the entitlement generation for nothing!

[Fugus]

They don't call millennials the entitlement generation for nothing!

Yeah, projection typically does kinda work that way.

[Sky High]

and that was the first time the economy collapsed

did I say anything even hinting that it's been the first time?

[Triceratrozer]

How can you have 13K in medical debt? How is that possible?

I called someone who recommended I go to the ER, that got me near $3000 for ten days worth of antibiotics and an in/out visit. 13k doesn't seem so far-fetched to me.

[Fugus]

I called someone who recommended I go to the ER, that got me near $3000 for ten days worth of antibiotics and an in/out visit. 13k doesn't seem so far-fetched to me.

Yeah, had a friend who was part of a family business doing wiring for new trailers and homes. He ended up passing out from heat in an attic and they ended up calling an ambulance for him and gave him a CAT scan of his head and he really had little say over it as the ambulance was called by his family while he was still out and they were pushing for a scan with him and his family not sure what to do and he ended up leaving with over a $10,000 bill that I think he still owes money on to this day over 4 years later.

[antelope591]

I'm a millennial and I've owned my own home for close to 5 years now, paid with no help from parents. The problem with my generation is opportunities, or rather the lack of. The generation before us could graduate from any program, anywhere and have a job lined up for them at the end of it. To get experience on the other hand, we have to not only be smart enough to pick a field which isn't completely useless job wise (I'm in health care) but even at the end of that you have to be prepared to move out of your comfort zone. If you're not from a rich family who can support you the big city is not for you. Many Millenials make this huge mistake of trying to live in the big cities right from the start of their careers which ends up destroying them economically. You simply have to take which opportunities are given then move to your ideal spot 5-10 years down the road, which is what I'm in the process of doing. Yeah the baby boomers are basically pieces of shit who destroyed the gifts they were given and now blame us for the problems they created but there's nothing we can do about it except play the cards we're dealt.

[Enthusiastic Steward]

I'm a millennial and I've owned my own home for close to 5 years now, paid with no help from parents. The problem with my generation is opportunities, or rather the lack of. The generation before us could graduate from any program, anywhere and have a job lined up for them at the end of it. To get experience on the other hand, we have to not only be smart enough to pick a field which isn't completely useless job wise (I'm in health care) but even at the end of that you have to be prepared to move out of your comfort zone. If you're not from a rich family who can support you the big city is not for you. Many Millenials make this huge mistake of trying to live in the big cities right from the start of their careers which ends up destroying them economically. You simply have to take which opportunities are given then move to your ideal spot 5-10 years down the road, which is what I'm in the process of doing. Yeah the baby boomers are basically pieces of shit who destroyed the gifts they were given and now blame us for the problems they created but there's nothing we can do about it except play the cards we're dealt.

My brother-in-law did everything "right", and graduated with an economics degree fall semester of '08. How well do you think that worked out for him? He's in a good place now, with a good job at least tangentially related to his degree, but entering the job market in early '09 with an econ degree... yeah he had a few rough years working shit jobs. His parents ended up helping him more than they ever helped my wife or her other siblings (this brother was the youngest, and with about 5-year separation from the next oldest) but we don't complain about it because none of the rest of us got dealt the shit hand that he did.

[Witchblade77]

Oh come on, that end part is just like that bullshit about how poor people should stop buying a new Iphone every year and buy healthcare insurance instead.

not entirely. see, not buying that gourmet sandwich or that latte, means they can actualy eat decently for the rest of the week instead of treating themselves for one meal and then subsiding on ramen noodles and stolen ketchup packets. spending $10 on 4 bags of generic mixed frozen veggies and a pack of eggs instead will feed you a lot longer and keep you overall healthier. $6 is a cost of a full bag of decent (not super awesome, but decent and very drinkable) ground coffee. for the cost of one latte, they could have been drinking coffee every day for 2 weeks. not buying that newest iphone every year will not pay for health insurance, but it WILL pay for a preventative dental visit or a preventative yearly check up. and so on. and so forth. i have been poor. those choices to treat yourself right now? you pay for those choices for weeks at least and they DO make things worse overall. because when you are poor, you don't have extra money to spend - what you see is what you got, so every time you splurge? you WILL be paying for it afterwards, long afterwards.

incidentally, I'm not saying that we shouldn't help. I'm saying that need to help doesn't contradict the fact that sometimes millennials DO make unwise choices. and sometimes, maybe helps means talking someone out of going to college they cannot afford and switching to the one they won't be trying to pay off for the rest of their lives (like I did with my own millennial sibling, who while struggling, at least doesn't have college loans on top of THAT)

[Nihilist74]

This whole millennial conversation is stupid. Millennial generation is like every other generation. If you have rich parents then you are probably going to get spoiled and not really have to work for anything. I was born in 1974. Does that make me generation x? Either way it doesn't matter. The millennial generation is no different than any other. The same people who have always been entitled are entitled. Some of the kids moms and dads pay their way through and college and some have to pay their own way.

[kail]

Why post on a thread about a Huffpost article if you don't like them?

That doesn't answer my question. I'm assuming that the OP is not a fan of HuffPost, is he/she going to make a thread on other articles they make that are equally as ridiculous as the OP's? Can fill up this subforum really quick with that line of thinking.

[Independent voter]

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[Deleted]

As if millenials don't get enough handouts living at home with their parents for free. Now everyone has to give them things because they don't think about their own futures.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ef=millennials

Stop fucking complaining about "millenials" as if you're some superior breed just cause you were born a bit earlier. Chances are most of the people in here are millenials.

[Deleted]

Born in 88 so technically a millennial.
Living the good life in UK as a bachelor as a worker class.
We dont need help, we need to get our shit together.

[Allybeboba]

Shouldn't the younger generation be supporting the older folks at this point? It is not unheard of for children and grandchildren to take care of their parents. I specifically purchased a house that had a separate living quarters for this reason. For when the time came that I needed to take care one of my or my wife's parents we would be ready. After all, they supported us for the first part of our lives. It is the least we can do.

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