I don’t know where this mythology comes from that Boomers and Gen X were “hard workers”. Boomers were literally Hippies. They were the original antiwork smoke weed all day and don’t do shyt movement. But people fail to make the connection that Hippies and Yuppies were the same people because college graduate cacs could actually come out of school to well paying jobs 95% of the time unlike any college graduate after 2001 and obviously 2007-2009. And Gen X were the slacker generation for God’s sake.
Doing the absolute minimal to get by. And many Gen X in the black community sold crack instead of working because it was much more profitable. I’m an older millennial but I couldn’t play outside that much as a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s because I lived in the hood where all the Gen X cats were slanging yola and shooting at each other. Today, many of the old hood dudes and women somehow managed to get good government jobs with platinum pay and benefits. Even some old school crackheads who got clean got good gov’t jobs.
The truth is that Boomers and Gen X just benefited from more prosperous economic times. Y’all had recessions and hard times that weren’t experienced evenly depending on your circumstances, but your boom times were legendary (i.e. the tech boom). It doesn’t make sense to go to college anymore. College is basically a casino where you are betting $100k+ that you will be able to find a good job afterwards graduation using an outdated measure of credentialism.
And you can’t discharge student loan debt with bankruptcy. Even these trade apprenticeships expect you to buy your own damn whole ass work truck with your own money on an apprenticeship wage that is only like $18 an hour.
The kids are thinking outside the box and that’s a good thing. America is a sinking ship because we are run by mega corporations that don’t give a damn about us.
Globalization also implies importing third world poverty.
I dont blame them.
