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Poor Millenials

Ooooh this thread should be fun
 
BKF isn't around anymore, so maybe we can have intelligent discussion.
 
A lot of the problems in that article can be loosely tied back to one event in US history -Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers. This was a shot across the bow of American workers and unions. It was a big deal about cutting pay and benefits. As other industries tried this, pay and benefits took massive hits.

As the article said, in 1980, 4/5 of workers had full medical coverage from their employers. At that time, employees rarely kicked in anything towards these costs and it was expected that health insurance would be part of your compensation.

Back in the 80s, people didn't change jobs that often. That was until the Reagan era feeding frenzy of corporate takeovers and mergers. A terrible precedent was set back then in allowing groups to use pension and healthcare funds to finance these mergers/takeovers. It was unthinkable to do this until then.

The weaker unions have gotten the weaker pay and benefits have become. Without even the fear of a union, employees have become even less than chattel to many large companies.

There used to be two way loyalty in many large businesses. That has disappeared.
 
Why did it disappear because boomers said fuck you I need my investment income then I die.
 
You don't get it at all. But then again, it's not your fault. It's never your fault.
 
it's possible, though there is more evidence that boomers ruined things than millennials are self absorbed when the evidence of self-absorption is "takes lots of pictures".
 
best part is when olds rail on millennials as the participant trophy generation. well, who the fuck decided to give them to the kids?
 
BarcaDeac said:
best part is when olds rail on millennials as the participant trophy generation. well, who the fuck decided to give them to the kids?
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Since the proliferation of participation trophies really exploded in the late 90s/00s/10s, it would be the children of the boomers that made this a big thing.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
it's possible, though there is more evidence that boomers ruined things than millennials are self absorbed when the evidence of self-absorption is "takes lots of pictures".
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Every generation is as self-absorbed as technology allows them to be.
 
if you want to learn about Baby Boomer inability to self-reflect, just watch two films from/about the Boomer coming of age: The Graduate and Breakfast at Tiffany's: the characters are self absorbed, clueless assholes with no or gig-level jobs and basically no ambition other than talk about how great they are
 
This all began when economic policy shifted to cement the preference of growth over employment
 
RJKarl said:
Since the proliferation of participation trophies really exploded in the late 90s/00s/10s, it would be the children of the boomers that made this a big thing.
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exactly -- Boomers decided to give them out to kids. again, Boomers at fault.
 
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