I really see a lot of parallels between the people and especially the editorials that seek to blame millennials for every single thing that happens, and the exact same types of editorials that seek to blame baby boomers for every single thing that happens.
I mean absolutely, there are individual baby boomers and individual millennials who are responsible for things that go on. But these articles never seem to be focusing on individuals and positions of power to make decisions that cause bad things to happen. Instead, they focus on the fact that an aggregate of people doing completely normal things is somehow even because a lot of people doing completely normal things happens to have an impact.
Think about it: people get mad at baby boomers for buying things and then later on those things that they bought got more expensive. What exactly are they supposed to do about that? They existed prior to the prices going up, they acted the way that they wanted to before the prices went up, then the prices went up. No individual person who is just trying to buy a house has any control over what the Federal reserve is going to do or what the government is doing.
Seems like the exact same thing with respect to the millennials. They get blamed because they don't like to eat spam, or use fabric softener, or buy as much mayonnaise. I just don't see the moral component to these actions.
If you walked up to me and said "hey, you aren't buying enough mayonnaise, that makes you a bad person" I would just gawk at you. Look at the crazy person. I think that any one person saying this to any other one person would have the exact same reaction. And yet, because it's big media organizations saying it about a generational cohort, somehow people don't just look at the same thing and behave the same. "Wow... So you're saying because I saved for retirement, that makes me fundamentally morally evil? Well I guess people are allowed to be wrong, it's a free country..."
I mean absolutely, there are individual baby boomers and individual millennials who are responsible for things that go on. But these articles never seem to be focusing on individuals and positions of power to make decisions that cause bad things to happen. Instead, they focus on the fact that an aggregate of people doing completely normal things is somehow even because a lot of people doing completely normal things happens to have an impact.
Think about it: people get mad at baby boomers for buying things and then later on those things that they bought got more expensive. What exactly are they supposed to do about that? They existed prior to the prices going up, they acted the way that they wanted to before the prices went up, then the prices went up. No individual person who is just trying to buy a house has any control over what the Federal reserve is going to do or what the government is doing.
Seems like the exact same thing with respect to the millennials. They get blamed because they don't like to eat spam, or use fabric softener, or buy as much mayonnaise. I just don't see the moral component to these actions.
If you walked up to me and said "hey, you aren't buying enough mayonnaise, that makes you a bad person" I would just gawk at you. Look at the crazy person. I think that any one person saying this to any other one person would have the exact same reaction. And yet, because it's big media organizations saying it about a generational cohort, somehow people don't just look at the same thing and behave the same. "Wow... So you're saying because I saved for retirement, that makes me fundamentally morally evil? Well I guess people are allowed to be wrong, it's a free country..."
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