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MichMan

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28. What generation doesnt want to pay?

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 11:58 AM

Sep 2015

What generation thinks music, news sites, and movies should all be "free"? It isn't the boomers

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Millennials Painfully Aware of How Much Needs Fixing in Wake of "Most Selfish Generation" [View all] EEO Sep 2015 OP

What simplistic silliness. guillaumeb Sep 2015 #1

There is nothing simplistic or silly about it. BillZBubb Sep 2015 #5

50 and up? That's simplistic and silly Warpy Sep 2015 #7

Lots of polling data says otherwise. BillZBubb Sep 2015 #9

Take a statistics course. Warpy Sep 2015 #13

I've forgotten more statistics than you'll ever know buddy. BillZBubb Sep 2015 #17

It shows Warpy Sep 2015 #19

Note that the years chosen were off year elections spooky3 Sep 2015 #23

65 and liberal Dem voter here and so are all of my old friends and my LiberalElite Sep 2015 #8

Anecdotal evidence is worthless. BillZBubb Sep 2015 #10

There are many greedy people in every age group. guillaumeb Sep 2015 #11

That's not the point. BillZBubb Sep 2015 #12

News flash! <60% is hardly "overwhelming." And spooky3 Sep 2015 #22

If you had said "men...are consistent right wing voters" spooky3 Sep 2015 #21

I'm over 50, white, and to the left of Bernie on some issues. yurbud Sep 2015 #34

Thanks! I'm not taking the blame for a few uber-rich sociopathic psychopathic assholes! Dont call me Shirley Sep 2015 #35

BS RandySF Sep 2015 #2

+ a gadzillion. leftofcool Sep 2015 #26

On their watch but ... GeorgeGist Sep 2015 #3

If you want to see selfish RandySF Sep 2015 #4

THIS beltanefauve Sep 2015 #18

Yes, all those libertarian techies of the "sharing" economy alarimer Sep 2015 #32

millenials = self obsessed people who can't tell the current weather w/out a cell phone or tablet l msongs Sep 2015 #6

And there is is! leftofcool Sep 2015 #27

It works like this. Igel Sep 2015 #14

Handed what exactly?? Fearless Sep 2015 #16

If they don't like the mess they see RandySF Sep 2015 #20

Agreed wholeheartedly! Fearless Sep 2015 #15

By casting this as an intergenerational conflict . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #24

Bingo! Way to get to the heart of the matter. Millennials aren't the only one with complaints brush Sep 2015 #31

BOOM! m night shanahan Sep 2015 #25

What generation doesnt want to pay? MichMan Sep 2015 #28

Oh goody MuseRider Sep 2015 #29

Young people have been hurling insults at the previous generation forever. virgogal Sep 2015 #30

"Baby boomers ruined America: Why blaming millennials is misguided — and annoying" m night shanahan Sep 2015 #33

No, it was the 1%--boomers or otherwise--who did all that. nt raccoon Sep 2015 #36