Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents’ treasures

[HuckleB]

36. You're right. It's always the same old transition between generations, for the most part.

Still, it is interesting to some extent. We came out of college in the era of Bush the first's recession, and we struggled, but we tended to do the jobs that available, and found a way to move up. When the economy dumped ten years later, the whining by the young coming out of college was shrill by comparison, as if everyone who had come before them had screwed them over, rather than the fact that the economy ebbs and flows.

Today, I see people the same age as I was when I came out of college, complain because they "don't have enough money to do anything." And then I find that that means they don't have enough money to go out to bars with their friends, and I go back to the fact that I bought a cheap six pack of beer one Autumn, and made it last, drinking a beer only when I really needed it, to get through, and I didn't think the world was ending.

Perspective is bloody important.