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camarillobrillo  ·  3833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Millennials Aren't Generation Y, We're Generation Omega

Great answer! I know the speech is full of hyperbole but I can't disagree with it's message. Millennials are the first generation polled to say they did not expect to do as well as their parents. The parent's say it's because they're whiny slackers but is that necessarily true? They haven't done as well as their parents. Gen-Yers are on the razor's edge of a complete worldwide upheaval. Things are moving faster and faster. Changes abound. Social, economical, our technology and even our very climate is spiraling out of control. Of course every generation has it's gloom and doom but we can't just ignore the reality that things aren't right and they're getting worse. I was born in '87. Gen X and Y are the same generation as far as I'm concerned. We are the children of the largest generation and, more than ever before, we have the whole world literally at our fingertips. Things should be getting easier, not harder. We should be working less, not more. Our poor should be getting richer, not sinking deeper into poverty. The people in charge of things should be helping us, not themselves. We need to stop blaming the past and change our present for a better future. But how? Do we even deserve it?