Mellenials being screwed by powers-that-be in USA and Britain.

[Emelina]

Economist Guy Standing gives a pretty good overview in this interview:

I guess I am sick and tired of a corporate press telling young people that everything is great. Give the public a break. The 1% are getting richer and richer and the middle class is dying. The working class makes too much to get welfare but not enough to survive. And we are told that things are so good that people just can't wait until Black Friday to max out their credit cards for junk they can't afford and which will be old and boring in less than a week upon opening the packages.

The Democrats have failed us and now people are going to find out the Republicans are just as bad if not worse. I guess nobody speaks for the young people living at home at age 30 too scared to get married and start families.

American is on the way out unless we get someone in there with the ideals of an FDR or Theodore Roosevelt.

[FSogol]

1. That's what happens when your group doesn't vote!

[L0oniX]

2. It's not just the millennial's (spell check is good)

[Igel]

3. I took it as a pun.

They're not "millennials," they're "me-llennials."

Another "me" generation.

[Ward]

4. Isn't there an "o" in melon?

Just asking.

[MineralMan]

5. Millennials should try voting.

That might help. Only 12% of the vote in 2014 was by millennials. Imagine what might happen if they all voted.

[RadiationTherapy]

9. The customers aren't buying our product.

There must be something wrong with the customers!

[MineralMan]

10. Voting is feedback for the system.

Vote and be heard. Then, those running will talk to you. If I knew that some group had no interest in my product, I wouldn't advertise to that group. I'd advertise to the group that represented my customers.

It works both ways.

So, who advertises to the millennials? Companies that make products they buy.

[otohara]

11. The Customers Are Uninformed

just spoke to a couple of 20+ year olds the other day trying to sell the local news paper at a grocery store. Part-time shitty job for the paper who endorsed the Guardian of Privileged candidate for senate.

I asked them if they were insured and the answer was "NO". I asked why don't you sign up for ACA? No money they said. It's gonna be free for you two and you'll get $1000 annual for dental. Won't cover bridges and crowns, but cavities and cleanings are better than nothing.

REALLY - OMG - both are going to sign up.

Not to mention, I have one of those customers, a son. Who was pretty disgusted with 50% of his hundreds of friends who didn't vote because it makes no difference. Ahhhh....except it did two years ago when we legalized marijuana.

Not buying it. One party is worse than the other. Not just worse, but hateful.

[arcane1]

12. The ONLY way to change the product is by voting.

They tend to forget that.

[Odin2005]

13. Yes, blame us for not buying a shitting product!

[MineralMan]

15. Nope. Vote and show the sellers that you vote.

Then, they'll pay attention. Right now, they don't have to pay attention to millennials. They don't vote.

[RadiationTherapy]

6. A presidential candidate over age 70 will be just the thing!

I notice Gen-X is already glossed over. Too late to help them - we have to help the millenials. Which is absolutely true. No need to have the gen-x dynamic pour over into another generation. Pardon me if I am just "not that into" another straight, white, corporate, wealthy, baby-boomer president. I am not voting for them anymore.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Millennials weren't around in the 80's...

...the last era in which youth (not me, I voted for Mondale and Dukakis) were hoodwinked by Capitalist Repugs...

[BubbaFett]

8. Cosplay and funemployment do not a movement make

instead of wearing their jammies for business casual and playing all the time, they might need to learn how to be grown ups and realize they aren't special snowflakes.

[Odin2005]

14. Every you "know" about us Millennials must come from shitty "kids these days" screeds.