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In reply to the discussion: Millennials don't want to be coddled, they want jobs! [View all]Warpy
(114,731 posts)I'm not buying your assertion that everybody who is older than you thinks you're being coddled and aren't working because you're lazy.
This is unfair to all of us. Knock it off NOW.
The fact is that most of us realize the economy for the bottom 99% is in the toilet. We Boomers, especially, look at the mountain of debt you had to accumulate to get educated beyond high school and burger flipping because we and your own parents were never paid enough to send you to school and we're outraged.
Don't take your self criticism and project it onto us. We're not stupid and we know what's going on. We know jobs are damned hard to come by and when you get one, it likely won't pay all the bills. We know health insurance is a total joke because between copays and ridiculously high deductibles, people who are paying off that mountain of student debt don't go to a doctor unless they're dying because they can't afford it.
So take your resentment of Gen X, Gen Y and the two cohorts of Boomers and shove it where the sun never shines.
It's counterproductive, it's unfair, and it's dead wrong.
Try working with us, instead.