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People who complain about millennials are annoying.

But at this point millennials who refuse to ignore the fact that some attributes and trends in their generation are really bad and terrible (and that some aspects of technology CAN be bad) are just as annoying.

I get it is because people ignore their bad aspects and such. And that their kids/grandkids will be the ones to bring up whatever shit the millennials did that was shitty.

But I can't wait that long. I saw this as someone who is straddling the line between Generation X/Millennial.

if they have kids lol

I'm an "older Milennial" (31) and man, I agree. On one hand, I'm sick of the business world incriminating us without really trying to understand where we're coming from. On the other hand, we have flaws, and we should acknowledge them. We accuse baby boomers of looking at the world with a 1960's mindset when we expect the world to work the way it did in the 1990's. It doesn't.

What are the flaws, yeah

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
4. Requires excessive admiration.
5. Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
6. Is inter-personally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

Those are the characteristics of a person with narcissistic personality disorder, but I think they characterize millennials as a generation well.

inb4 "This is one of the most empathetic generations ever!" Yes, to people who share their views. They're incapable of empathizing with those they disagree with.

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I think that these (most, anyway) are fairly characteristic of anyone who has had the opportunity to grow up in a particular social/economical class.

I also find that such personality traits are not limited to the Millennial generation...

To be fair, I am a millennial, I grew up under particular circumstances, but as a whole, and again, perhaps I am looking at this from a limited perspective, but I don't think all these apply. At least not to the majority. Perhaps I am not very aware of my contemporaries.

It doesn't characterize everyone in that generation, and there are narcissists in every generation, sure. But I think it captures the essence of the victimhood/entitlement attitude we're seeing at American universities with students protesting speakers, making demands, seeking to punish microaggressions, etc.

Some of this is perhaps youth in general, and it could well be a matter of economic or class privilege because this seems to happen most frequently at prestigious universities. I work at a "poor" university, and no one protests anything because they're too busy trying to make it through school while paying rent and often tuition out-of-pocket and sometimes caring for small children or aging parents at the same time.

I'm with you on this. I've seen this more out of prestigious and "rich" universities where the student populace is rich and entitled and a bunch of whiny rich prats.

Meanwhile, I -WENT- to a "poor" RURAL university, where people really didn't protest because we had to make it through school while trying to make ends meet. If we wanted something to change, WE worked to make the change. Students wanted a group for LGBT+ students? We found a professor to sponsor us and formed the group ourselves and got the paperwork to make it an official campus group. We didn't bitch and whine that we were being oppressed. We worked our butts off to get our own group.

It's the echo chamber generation. We're the first generation to be able to surround ourselves so completely with people that share our exact views (through the magic of the internet, which has 100% changed how we interact with each other face-to-face), and shut out all opposing ones, to the point where opposing viewpoints are actually vilified right out of the starting gate. That's where the entitlement comes from. We're so used to being agreed with that a disagreement feels like a personal attack.

I don't really get all the generation stuff I've been seeing lately. I know there are trends in certain generations, but still. I try to judge people as individuals, not based on when they were born. Not everyone born in a certain decade is alike.

Eh, you know what? In the end every generation complains bout the next, and the next generation will always have some things that are better, some things that are worse, and some things that are simply different.

I feel like our predecessors sort of fucked up or world in terms of pollution, resources drain, economy, politics - and things do need to change. And all change is difficult.

I do have high hopes for my generation and the next. We won't be perfect, we'll have our flaws, but we can't afford a status quo, either.

There's a line between Generation X and Millenial? I thought there was another generation in between those two.

Millennials were born 1983-2000.

What would be the actual purpose of doing that for me? Every person in my generation has flaws but they're certinly not all going to be the same. And the criticism of boomers is rooted in responding to hypocrisy and the fact that choices many of them made informed the millenial decision, not criticism for its own sake. I wouldn't say to an individul boomer "YOU did this" unless I know for a fact that they personally did, and I am not going to bring it up at all unless that boomer is on my case for my situation.

Millennials' kids are going to be greedy, self-serving, alt-right punk nazis.

And I am going to laugh at them so hard when they whine about it.

You'll probably be dead, thankfully.

I can only hope.

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