Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new
Many millennials are reaching their “peak earning potential” years. They’re special because it’s often around this time that people make choices around having children, how to sustain families while working, etc.
Many millennials can barely afford rent, are struggling to own anywhere where there are any jobs, and have nothing saved for retirement - something that should be coming for some them in twenty years time.
Economies take a long time to recover and rebuild. We’re reaching a point where it’s likely that many millennials will retire without ever seeing a strong economy. Even if we all decided to rise up and eat Bezos, Gates, Musk, Zuck, and co, by the time that wealth trickles down to us, we’ll be too old to get any of it. That’s why millennials are special.
Millennials are the youngest generation that’s left their college years behind, outside of people attending at later points in their lives, so they make the best example in this case.
You could be Gen Z and working a decent job without a degree, or just working a minimum wage job, but discussing the latest generations batch of university graduates struggling to keep up with cost of living makes more of a statement.
Older Gen Z are, but not all of them are at that point yet. It’s easier to make blanket statements regarding Millennials since you still have half of Gen Z in their teen years.
We all are, what’s so special about millennials?
Probably found that adding that to the title increased the number of views.
We like avocados or something.
Something, something, catchy headline…
Right? We are all slaving our lives away for barely making it, if at all.
Many millennials are reaching their “peak earning potential” years. They’re special because it’s often around this time that people make choices around having children, how to sustain families while working, etc.
Many millennials can barely afford rent, are struggling to own anywhere where there are any jobs, and have nothing saved for retirement - something that should be coming for some them in twenty years time.
Economies take a long time to recover and rebuild. We’re reaching a point where it’s likely that many millennials will retire without ever seeing a strong economy. Even if we all decided to rise up and eat Bezos, Gates, Musk, Zuck, and co, by the time that wealth trickles down to us, we’ll be too old to get any of it. That’s why millennials are special.
Millennials are the youngest generation that’s left their college years behind, outside of people attending at later points in their lives, so they make the best example in this case.
You could be Gen Z and working a decent job without a degree, or just working a minimum wage job, but discussing the latest generations batch of university graduates struggling to keep up with cost of living makes more of a statement.
Um…Gen Z IS the latest batch of graduates.
Older Gen Z are, but not all of them are at that point yet. It’s easier to make blanket statements regarding Millennials since you still have half of Gen Z in their teen years.
My dude some of the older Gen Z are approaching 30. That’s still a sizeable chunk of a generation that are legally adults (born 2006 or older).
Not what I’m pointing out. The youngest Millennials are almost all 30. You still have Gen Z that are 12 if I’m not mistaken.
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