The "entitled millennial" non-sense is getting really tiresome.
Yes, there is a sub-faction of people who are idiotic spoiled brats. But there exists an entirely another large faction of millennials who have been busting their ass and trying to turn an endless pile of dogshit into something resembling gold for a long time now while constantly being told they are lazy and entitled; often by people much older who were responsible for voting in dipshits into political power that got everyone into the mess we are in today. Furthermore, these same folks preached all kinds of bullshit to us as kids; the "any college degree regardless of the debt" is one I heard constantly throughout the 90s from about every authority/role model figure.
In fairness, they probably truly believed what they were saying at the time and meant no ill intent
but to have those same people call millennials "entitled" after essentially being co-conspirators in a massive bait and switch across the board on all fronts is laughable at best and severely insulting at worst.
The following is part of a large post I wrote in another thread. It's basically a detail overview of what life has been like for A LOT of millennial men since the 9/11 time period. You can read the full post here:
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As a native citizen in his late 20s/early 30s, it been one shit sandwich after another pretty much across the board.
Let's take a trip starting from adulthood (let's say around post-9/11) for the average guy in my age range:
Late teens/early 20s:
Increased college tuition cost and expenses made it an era where going to college was a questionable venture from a cost/benefit perspective; a first in modern history. College up until this point was promise relentlessly as the ticket to middle class. Today and for sometime now, it's been a ticket to indenture servitude for most. The writing was on the wall back during the teenage years if you had some foresight but it wasn't generally accepted that college was a bad deal at that point. If you had any foresight to know that college wasn't a good deal for most, your options were:
1. Go into the military during a time of war; a questionable stupid war ran by republicans who seemed more concerned with lining the pockets of defense contractors as oppose to giving the military the resources it needed to accomplish a nearly impossible and poorly planned mission.
2. Go into a trade - which you probably weren't even made aware of during your HS years because no one advocated for them. Furthermore if you did contemplate going down that route, you had to compete with an exponentially growing illegal immigrant pool taking up opportunities and suppressing wages in lower-end trades. You don't speak Spanish and see the illegal day labors in your sanctuary city/county doing the majority of trade labor. You see how they live and how an employer abuses them and can't see any foreseeable path in making it work.
This is all the while wages at the lower-end across the board aren't growing at all to anything resembling livable income even at full-time status and healthcare costs are exploding. God help you if you are young single male with no support structure and get injured in some capacity. You are fucked in every way possible if that happens.
Early/Mid 20s:
Somehow, someway.... you found a path to making some progress in life. It's very modest and bare bones living but it's better than many. Maybe you got a full ride to a university, maybe you joined the military, or maybe you have spent a few years in a trade honing your craft.
.... THEN the economy crashes in 2008; thanks in large part to reckless big banks enabled by both establishment democrats (repealing Glass-Steagall) and republicans (not keeping a lid on lending standards during the 2000s) among many other reasons.
Demand for tradesman plummets.
College graduates aren't getting any offers while many are drowning in debt
People you know, friends and relatives, are underwater with their homes. Some lose them entirely. Many people you know move back home out of necessity. Not just for themselves but to help keep their relatives/friends from ending up on the street.
And establishment republicans and democrats bail out the big money failures. Big banks on Wall Street and big poorly run companies like GM. You think to yourself: where were they when I needed help?
Illegal immigration subsides a bit due to lack of economic demand but now these illegals are having kids by the boatloads and are demanding government services via schooling, housing, medical care, and food. You watch both establishment democrats and to an lesser extent, establishment republicans try to court this growing class of invaders at your expense. You are labeled a uncaring racist scumbag for standing up for your own native citizens.
You see Obama get elected and hope he will be a different class of politician. He turns out to be full of shit; selling the male gender out to appease militant feminist lies and non-sense. He mentions the female wage gap in a State of the Union address and encourages his Justice Department to enable witchhunts on college campuses against men over dubious sexual assault allegations. You see a rise in militant feminism from both the establishment political space and mainstream media. You are confused as hell since the past years economically speaking have not been remotely kind to you. In fact, they have been brutal and requiring significant sacrifice.
Being a man and just breathing in the wrong direction can now destroy whatever fragile and hard-fought career and savings you have established despite having total garbage to work with for years. You are one false accusation away from being financially crippled or imprisoned and nobody anywhere seems to give a shit.
Late 20s/Late 30s:
The economy is a limp-dick, mostly generating shitty service level jobs. Obamacare fixed a few problems but created 100 new ones. Illegal immigration still goes unchecked. Neither political party seems to gives a shit about either addressing the real economic or cultural issues affecting you as a hard working man.
But despite enormous factors working against you for around a decade or so, both economical and cultural, you finally start to find some footing beyond bare bones living. Significant sacrifices are still needed but there is a path to success now that seems realistically achievable despite the onslaught of bullshit.
However, the crop of 2016 Presidential candidates [excluding Trump] are total disasters and can hurt you even further economically and/or culturally. Your blood boils. The wear and tear of around a decade of being dealt shit sandwiches constantly and being force to eat more is simply too much. Time to put an end to this bullshit; it's time to get serious about an exit strategy.
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This is what life has been like for many millennial men. So, I ask everyone to tread carefully when spewing out "entitled" bullshit when referring to an entire generation of people that has largely been getting bent over without the KY for quite a while now.
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