Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy - Cambridge study

[Withywindle]

54. You know most Millennials are in their 30s now, right?

Talking about what 18-year-olds should do - an entirely different generation - really isn't relevant.

Millennials - again, we're talking about people who are 25-39, roughly, many of whom have kids of their own now - have actually a fairly simple and straightforward problem: wages that have been stagnant for decades while cost of living has only gone up.

If the minimum wage were to have the same buying power that it had in the 1970s, it would be $22-$25 an hour, not $7.25 in many states and $15 in others. There is NO state where a full-time worker making minimum wage can afford an apartment all on their own.

They see the intense resistance to even a basic, band-aid-on-broken-leg change like raising the MW to $15 federally, and they feel that no one in politics - or at least, not enough people to make a difference - are really in their corner and understand their needs.

I'm Gen X. Back when I was working (thanks, COVID) there were a lot of Millennials in my job. I did not know ONE of them who had that job as their only job. Not one. They all had a side hustle. They were all exhausted all the time, because they would just leave this job and then go to another one. That's not sustainable, and it's not fair.