Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials
First, we get articles blaming Millennials for things.<p>Then, as people start to push back (prior to this article), we have off-hand mentions that every generation blames the younger&#x2F;older generation.<p>But is this really equivalent?   My (limited) understanding is that the Boomers were themselves quite exceptional - we&#x27;re in the longest era of global-level peace, the Boomers themselves WERE a &quot;boom&quot; of population, the extended middle class of the 50s was an anomaly, etc.  Add to this that Millennials face new issues in ways that other generations haven&#x27;t: climate change is literally a sea-level change, education is more costly, communication is more global, and of course, for the US and many other countries, the next generation that will support them is much smaller rather than larger.  Certainly there are parallels to previous generational conflicts, but I don&#x27;t see a reason to shrug this off as just normal.<p>I&#x27;m GenX, and the articles when I was hitting the workforce were dismissive and condescending, but in a &quot;aw, they&#x27;re young and naive&quot; as opposed to &quot;they are failures as human beings&quot; that I read in a lot of the Millennial coverage.<p>Does anyone know of studies into whether this IS just normal inter-generational gripes?