The difference is the young people got their minds obliterated by convenience through apps from a young age… and everyone saying that this would be the new permanent sustainable future, so doing anything the hardway is just stupid.
They were presented with all this, the content on demand, the simplified UIs… things that mostly ‘just worked’.
They also grew up in a time where there is no reward for perservering through difficulty and confusion. The economy, to a job seeker, is a random casino, or nepotism, that’s it.
So to them… any kind of delayed benefit is more pointless.
They’re not ‘making it harder for themselves’… curiosity is a thing that has to be nurtured, encouraged, rewarded… and everything about their lives did the opposite, punished it, mocked it.
Thats not a switch you can just flip. They don’t know how to contemplate.
Another important other part of this is the Boomers rigged society to work for them and fuck everyone else, and lied about doing that… and the Millenials, Zoomers and now Alphas all grew up to now in that world.
Homeowner average age is just the Boomer’s average age. Political figures get older and older, anomalously.
And… nobody teaches anybody anything any more. The Boomers stopped passing down useful life advice, and that has now compounded into the incredible irresponsibility of Millenial parents just handing their 6 month old an Ipad, to do the parenting for them.
Of course the broadly shit economic conditions for Millenials are a huge part of why that happens…
But you can’t pass down skills and habits you don’t have, because they were never passed to you.
I am a millenial. Taught myself how to cook, taught myself car maintenance, taught myself socializing and romance advice/strategies, taught myself personal finance habits… my parents either didn’t have time, mocked me for not already knowing, or actively had terrible advice that was either immoral, ineffective, or both.
And I think that is a very common Millenial experience.
My dad would tell me about the good times he had learning shit from his dad… and then just… didn’t do that, with me.
Maybe I am a bad example, because I am so no contact with my parents they probably think I am dead.
But then again… more and more millenials are going no contact with their Boomer parents, because they’ve been treated similarly terribly.
The difference is the young people got their minds obliterated by convenience through apps from a young age… and everyone saying that this would be the new permanent sustainable future, so doing anything the hardway is just stupid.
They were presented with all this, the content on demand, the simplified UIs… things that mostly ‘just worked’.
They also grew up in a time where there is no reward for perservering through difficulty and confusion. The economy, to a job seeker, is a random casino, or nepotism, that’s it.
So to them… any kind of delayed benefit is more pointless.
They’re not ‘making it harder for themselves’… curiosity is a thing that has to be nurtured, encouraged, rewarded… and everything about their lives did the opposite, punished it, mocked it.
Thats not a switch you can just flip. They don’t know how to contemplate.
Another important other part of this is the Boomers rigged society to work for them and fuck everyone else, and lied about doing that… and the Millenials, Zoomers and now Alphas all grew up to now in that world.
Homeowner average age is just the Boomer’s average age. Political figures get older and older, anomalously.
And… nobody teaches anybody anything any more. The Boomers stopped passing down useful life advice, and that has now compounded into the incredible irresponsibility of Millenial parents just handing their 6 month old an Ipad, to do the parenting for them.
Of course the broadly shit economic conditions for Millenials are a huge part of why that happens…
But you can’t pass down skills and habits you don’t have, because they were never passed to you.
I am a millenial. Taught myself how to cook, taught myself car maintenance, taught myself socializing and romance advice/strategies, taught myself personal finance habits… my parents either didn’t have time, mocked me for not already knowing, or actively had terrible advice that was either immoral, ineffective, or both.
And I think that is a very common Millenial experience.
My dad would tell me about the good times he had learning shit from his dad… and then just… didn’t do that, with me.
Maybe I am a bad example, because I am so no contact with my parents they probably think I am dead.
But then again… more and more millenials are going no contact with their Boomer parents, because they’ve been treated similarly terribly.