You've heard it many times: lazy, entitled, technology addicted millennials. The Baby Boomers and Generation X'ers speak about millennials as if their agenda is to destroy the world, but there are many flaws with their argument that'd I like to point out. Also, the millennials are an underestimated generation; even by their own.

First off, the malcontent of the newest generation is nothing new in America. There's always been the older generation disliking the younger one, it's just American culture. However, that's not a smart move by older generations. The younger generation will, one day, have to take care of the older one once they grow elderly, but in America for some reason the older generation never subscribe to that idea. When you look at other western societies the old appreciates the young; America is a unique case. Just writing it off as "culture" isn't enough of an argument.

To continue, the baby boomer generation isn't all it's cracked up to be. In fact, I'd even to go as far to say the baby boomers are the most selfish and destructive American generation. They're the loudest voice of opposition to the millennial generation, and yet the millennials seems to admire the baby boomers, for some reason. What's even worse is the millennials are just as quick to criticize their own generation as the baby boomers are! The baby boomers have made the millennials give up on their own generation.

Now what's wrong with the baby boomers? Well, where to begin? The whole counter culture movement is praised by the millennials, but this isn’t in best interest for the generation. The counterculture movement is seemingly an amazing moment, but there were many reasons for its failure. The baby boomers were having children left and right, hence why they're called baby boomers, so there were many children with counterculture parents. And they weren’t exactly being good parent, they’d bring young kids wherever they wanted: music festivals, violent political rallies, living in communes. Doing these things on your own is fine, no harm done, but when you have children it’s another story that’s a universal responsibility. The mentality of the baby boomers during the counterculture era was “If I’m happy my children will be happy.” We all know that is the kind of mentality that breeds selfishness, but it was widely accepted at that time.

Also, the movement is often associated with civil rights milestones; this is mistaken counterculture and has no ties to those ideas. There was no talk of marriage equality, women’s rights, or racism among the baby boomers. The main idea was to rebel against authority, and that was the only core idea to the movement; civil rights ideas came later. The core idea wasn't a bad thing for America, but their credited with something they didn’t do. Sure there were civil rights groups at the time, but counterculture didn’t work with those groups per say. There’s been a bit of revisionist history written by the baby boomers.

To end on the baby boomers, they ruined many things for the millennials. The baby boomers simply made it harder for our generation to get an education, a job, a house, and to retire. Basic things in life in which the baby boomers rebelled against. They rebelled against these things by not partaking in them at all, and in their actions inadvertently broke those systems for later generations, i.e. the millennials. College debt, youth unemployment, the housing bubble, the failure of Social Security are all things inherited by the millennials thanks to the baby boomers negligence. But, the millennials needn't play the victim.

These things aside, the millennial generation is finding ways around everything that has unfortunately been handed down to us. The innovate nature of the millennials allows for flexibility to deal with the inherited issues. Even despite the now difficult task of receiving a higher education, millennials are the most educated generation to date. Why is that? Well, they care more than the baby boomers do. The millennials are industrious with their academics, doing whatever it takes to get an education. Weather that be attending your second choice school or taking out crippling loans; a millennial will do it. The millennials are burying themselves in debt, but they prioritize education.

Also, as the job market and economy are doing poorly under the baby boomers the millennials are finding other ways. This is the most start-up generation America’s ever seen with 52 percent of millennials starting their own business. Thanks to the power of the Internet, millennials have the means to create business from the ground up. Millennials are so innovative that they are making new job fields annually; this will allow for youth unemployment to decline. This isn’t even a matter of potential, this is how much has been already done.

To conclude, as the millennials progress they will find a way to deal with the later problems given their way of going about things. When it comes time for a house the millennials will have to solve it; housing isn’t feasible for this generation. Also, with the baby boomers sucking Social Security dry there will need to be a solution to retirement. As things look now the millennials will be working until the day they die, not a happy thought. Luckily the millennials are resourceful, and they can overcome things thrown at them, time has proven as much. The millennials are innovative, resourceful, and creative; they will do great things for this country despite what the public opinion says about them.