Millennials are the absolute worst! Amirite?

I wasn't certain of this fact until I looked around the web. It turns out that there is no shortage of Baby Boomers who can prove beyond a doubt that millennials are lazy, entitled brats.

Allow me to list a sampling.

Millennials are killing the beer industry

Apparently, Millennials Are Also Destroying The Official Means Of Legal Communication

Millennials only have a 5-second attention span for ads, says comScore CEO

Here's the Brutal Truth About Why Everybody Else Resents Millennials

Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness

Millennials, This Is Why You Haven't Been Promoted

Harvard report: Millennials not interested in casual sex

Argh! Not even beer and casual sex!?!

What the Hell is wrong with kids these days?

This sort of stuff makes me want to tell those kids to get off my lawn. If I had a lawn.

And it just keeps getting worse.



Last year, the Economist claimed that millennials were killing the diamond industry. Other pieces made similar claims about the golf industry, movie theaters, Home Depot — true mainstays of American culture. Each offered its own explanation: caring about the ethics of diamond mining, not liking golf, or refusing to stay off Twitter. But all agreed that millennial selfishness is hurting everyone else.

The arguments are hardly consistent. “Millennials are driving the rise of the work martyr, employees so driven that vacation days go unused in order to impress the boss — or simply to avoid being replaced.” says Joshua Rhett Miller. Millennials are apparently so lazy that they’re . . . working too hard, thus ruining others’ vacations.

Then I found a couple other articles that are more revealing.

This one mistake can cost millennials millions



Fearing the market, millennials are putting their money in savings accounts. And the potential loss of future earnings is huge, like $3.3 million huge, according to new analysis by NerdWallet.

80% of millennials say they want to buy a home—but most have less than $1,000 saved

Gee, why aren't millennials buying stocks and houses?

Is it because of all that avocado toast?



Is avocado toast all that's standing between millennials and their first homes?

An Australian millionaire thinks so. Not everyone is convinced.

Tim Gurner, a 35-year-old developer, called out his generation on Australia's version of "60 Minutes" on Sunday.

"When I was trying to buy my first home I wasn't buying smashed avocados for 19 bucks and four coffees at $4 each," he said.

Gurner, who's worth an estimated $460 million according to the Australian Financial Review, said wasteful spending is preventing young people from becoming homeowners.

"We are coming into a new reality ... and a lot of people won't own a house in their lifetime," he said.

There you have it.

Millennials are responsible for all the problems they encounter in the world, and will soon be responsible for all the world's problems.

And it's all because of their avocado toast addictions!

Except I also found this article.

More groceries, less travel: Millennials spend more on necessities than older generations

Not avocado toast and vacations, but actual necessities (and student loans).

Maybe, just maybe, the same generation that is pointing fingers are the ones responsible for screwing up the world for millennials, not the other way around.



According to this narrative, not only has millennials’ terrible behavior produced a string of societal problems, but millennials themselves are actually responsible for all they face — unemployment, low and stagnant wages, civic unrest, the withering of democracy.

This is absurd. Postsecondary education has become a gatekeeper for getting a decent-paying job, but millions of young people cannot take on the debt required to get a degree. Those who do find that their degree no longer opens the door to a good job.

Today’s young people work hard only to get paid very little. Saddled with student debt, they take multiple jobs, compete for unpaid internships, and sometimes move back in with their parents to make ends meet. For those who have stable jobs, the jobs they have may not be in the field that they went to college for. Wages have also remained stagnant. The average college graduate is making about $18.53 an hour, a number that has remained virtually unchanged since 2000.

All of this Blame The Millennials looks an awful lot like "punching down" to me.