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Monsignor1979 t1_j4u1miz wrote

Reply to comment by Li2_lCO3 in The Number of Hours You'd Have to Work at a Minimum Wage Job to Afford a Year of Tuition in Each State by SandyBeaches2016

I'm 43. If you think things were easy for me 25 years ago, you're a fool. I too, sat in an apartment I couldn't afford, with no power because the power company pulled the plug after 3 months of non payment. Ate Raman noodles and hot dogs for 3 years until I eventually stepped it up to cheese-dogs. Topping my car off with anti-freeze every day because I couldn't afford a new radiator, let alone a new car. No cell phone, no internet, no cable. Used a rusted coat hanger to get my local channels just so I could keep up on current events. I'm doing well now, but it wasn't easy for me either.

This generation really thinks they're the only ones who have ever had to deal with hardships as they negotiate the life of adulthood. My grandparents (growing up through the depression) would be rolling over in their grave if they heard the nonsense you guys spew.

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cybicle t1_j4wvtg2 wrote

You're using your individual experience to refute the difficulties which the entire current college age generation is facing, and you're stereotyping "this generation" based on a subset of its members who either don't see the point in trying to get a degree, or who don't have the skills/support/resources to get one.

This is a great way to stroke your own ego, but doesn't do much for resolving the problems we face as a society and a nation. Who are you to say what "this generation" thinks? This isn't about you.

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Monsignor1979 t1_j4wzv8i wrote

Oh, I forgot about the college educated. I'm glad millennials had an opportunity to go to college. Only 20% of Gen xers were able to get a four year degree compared to roughly 40% of millennials. We couldn't afford to get any higher learning, nor did we have the time because of the multiple jobs we were required to work just to afford staples this generation takes for granted. Most of them still can't.

It's not just my story. It's my entire generation's story. And it's also the story of boomers, before me. And the same story of the silent generation before them.

Each generation has had their own struggles that were unique to their generation. Millennials don't have it any harder, and it's getting kinda old.

When the millennials grow up and start having grandkids of their own, you'll see this pattern rinse and repeat. Those new kids will complain about the raw hand they've been dealt, and how hard it is to accomplish anything, and all the millennials will be rolling their eyes and trying to explain to them the same thing I'm explaining to you.

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