Dear Baby Boomers, Please Stop Dissing Millennials For Ruining The World
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Dear Baby Boomers, Please Stop Dissing Millennials For Ruining The World

If I had a dollar for every time a baby boomer complained about our generation, I'd have enough money to fix the economy they ruined.

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Dear Baby Boomers, Please Stop Dissing Millennials For Ruining The World
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Baby boomers, those who were born between 1946 and 1964, love dissing millennials.

They think we’re lazy, self-centered, entitled, and a whole lot of other things. They diss us on the news and write shady articles about us, saying that we aren’t prepared for the real world and that we’re the reason behind hookup culture (even though hookup culture started decades before we were born).

Millennials are constantly told by older generations that we think the world owes us a favor.

Bad news for the baby boomers: you’re the ones who are entitled!

There, I said it. They can disagree with me all they want, but here’s why they are the worst:

The boomers ruined the economy and it’ll take generations to pay off. Our national debt is now at around $17 trillion, larger for the first time in recent history than the size of our entire economy. And it’s projected to continue to significantly grow over the next few decades unless something dramatic is done to reduce it. But of course, they don’t want to take responsibility for it and blame it on younger generations.

They are, thank God, the last reminders of our racist, homophobic, sexist past. Remember when you learned about the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and were appalled to the fact that there was legal racial segregation everywhere? There was segregation in schools, diners, cinemas, public transportation, and even water fountains. The boomers went out of their way to make it almost impossible for blacks to vote. Other than racial segregation, it was so infuriating to see how much effort the boomers made to dehumanize anyone who wasn’t a WASP, male, and straight.

They say we millennials have it easy — says the generation who was able to buy a house on a wage from unskilled work at the age of 21. Millennials are working nonstop both through jobs and their academics just to be able to live paycheck to paycheck. Nowadays, you will need at least a master’s degree to be able to make an affordable living.

Listen, baby boomers, we’re fed up with your crap! Stop saying that our country is screwed when you all ruined it a long time ago. The list goes on and on as to why baby boomers need to stop dissing us millennials. The next time a baby boomer throws shade towards you and other millennials, just brush it off, keep moving forward, and enjoy your fulfilling, negativity-free life.

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