{"id":93552,"date":"2016-07-07T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/kyraneko-anightvaleintern-yolandaash\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:43:57","slug":"kyraneko-anightvaleintern-yolandaash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/kyraneko-anightvaleintern-yolandaash\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

kyraneko<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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anightvaleintern<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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yolandaash<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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teapotsahoy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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jadelyn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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doctor-segmentium<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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let\u2019s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they\u2019re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn\u2019t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they\u2019re mad we aren\u2019t just money giving\/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected us to be <\/p>\n

like look at how much millennial hate articles are things like \u201cmillennials aren\u2019t eating cereal and it\u2019s hurting the cereal industry\u201d or \u201cmillennials aren\u2019t buying houses and that\u2019s bad\u201d or \u201cmillennials #1 utmost priority isn\u2019t trying to make as much money as possible\u201d and rich folks are mad about it, so just posturing our unpredictability\/nontraditional values as \u201claziness\u201d gets everyone else on board the hate train in some weird attempt to collectively subdue us<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou are Doing Capitalism Wrong and it scares me\u201d – bitter Boomers to Millennials who are not buying into their shit (or buying their shit)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Keep in mind that the subprime mortgage crisis was at a pretty pivotal time in Millenial\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Like, this isn\u2019t coming from nowhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I mean boomers refuse to pay a living wage to anyone and then wonder why those people don\u2019t buy anything? I am sorry but what exactly is the disconnect here?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Millennials value work that has meaning above work that pays well and they hate that as well. \u00a0It means we can\u2019t be shut up with busy work while they\u2019re made to seem like they\u2019re running a well oiled machine. \u00a0They come from a generation of a boss being someone who says \u201cdo what I say because I told you to\u201d and we come from a generation who values a boss that says\u00a0\u201cwhat can I do for you that will help you excel at your job?\u201d<\/p>\n

Millennials do not cope well with meaningless busy work so their boss looks better. \u00a0They don\u2019t cope with being talked down to or not being assisted by their boss when they have a problem. \u00a0They do not deal well with their innovative ideas being shut down because\u00a0\u201cthat\u2019s not how we do it here.\u201d and I don\u2019t see how any of those things is a problem.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0A single millennial can buy a product and then inform anyone who wants to know about the quality of said product. \u00a0It only takes a handful of millennials to say\u00a0\u201cthis is a substandard product\u201d to render all the millions of dollars spent on advertising that product completely useless.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0<\/p>\n

On the flip side, though, you enthusiastically will push and promote things that you love.<\/p>\n

Big business and their baby boomer CEOs and presidents HATE this. \u00a0Because it means that they can no longer provide a substandard product while making the consumer feel there is nothing better out there.<\/p>\n

In the past, if every dish soap was awful, you just had to continue using awful dish soap. \u00a0Now, you can crowd source an alternative. \u00a0You can post in a forum, your facebook, a mass text, etc and say\u00a0\u201cI hate every dish soap, what can I do?\u201d and you will be directed to actual good brands or you will be taught how to brew your own.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a great generation, I\u2019m really proud of you guys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, tho.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to buy a house, but I can\u2019t afford a down payment and can\u2019t be certain that I\u2019ll have the same income levels for thirty years and I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

And also every new housing development I\u2019ve seen in the past five years has been\u00a0\u201cExecutive Housing, Starting At 390K\u201d and the realtor websites are full of last decade\u2019s foreclosed subdivision homes in the $275K region, and there\u2019s legit no one, including the zoning board, that\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Oh, and that same zoning means five people aren\u2019t allowed to share that $300K, 5-bedroom McMansion, because fuck us, that\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there\u2019s 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\u2019t any of those in the entry-level price range. Once again, fuck us.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the labor market itself, where\u00a0\u201centry level\u201d positions want three-to-five years of experience, and everybody won\u2019t 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\u00a0\u201cNow Hiring\u201d sign up because they drive employees away as fast as they can replace them.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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\u2019m gonna make my own goddamn laundry detergent from a recipe I found on the internet, and I\u2019m gonna buy as much of my vegetables as possible in seed form, and I\u2019m gonna fucking read the consumer reviews on shit before I buy it and I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n

Because seriously, with its\u00a0\u201cAsk not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economy\u201d mindset and historic, far-reaching fuckery, the business side of the equation has little room to complain about millennials being the selfish ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

kyraneko: anightvaleintern: yolandaash: teapotsahoy: jadelyn: doctor-segmentium: let\u2019s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they\u2019re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn\u2019t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they\u2019re mad we aren\u2019t just money giving\/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected … <\/p>\n

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