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user-inactivated  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Millennials Aren't Cheap, They're Broke

> It's a shitty time to be a recent college grad. It's going to be a less shitty time for their kids. Millenials will have the last laugh; here's the 'boomers slagging on Generation X shortly before they created The Internet.

I wasn't born until a month before that article was written. Now people who were considered "whiners" around that era are complaining about us being whiny.

> So: You're fucked if you go to college. But you're more fucked if you don't go to college.

This makes going to college sound like some sort of educational drug. 30 years ago, you used it to get anywhere you wanted to. Nowadays, you need it to get anywhere at all.





kleinbl00  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

psssst - the 'boomers have been whiners since they were born.

http://xkcd.com/988/

veen  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The alt text is great too: 'An "American Tradition" is anything that happened to a babyboomer twice'.