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Posted 06 July 2015 - 07:55 AM

“Millennial men are faring especially poorly,” said David Madland, economic policy director at the Center for American Progress.

“Male unemployment is higher than female unemployment, male labor force participation is lower than in prior generations, their hourly wage is less than it was in the early 1970s, and male educational attainment is increasingly slipping behind women, which doesn’t bode well for the future.”


Are these men a 21st century version of Peter Pan’s “lost boys”? Turn back the clock 50 years and American males typically were real “men” by 22 or so — self-supporting, married and ready to start a family. During World War II, millions of 18-year-old men idealistically and courageously volunteered to fight to defeat fascism. Go further back in history, and teenage boys worked in the family business or on the family farm. Such creatures today are extremely rare.

Instead, millions sit home in pajamas, their moms serving breakfast, while spending the day playing computer games, cooking up half-baked business plans, or vegging out with a six-pack in front of the TV. Of course, this loser-like stereotype is not true for all: Many young men work hard in good jobs and are building their lives. Many others try hard to escape the parental basement.


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Posted 07 July 2015 - 04:06 AM

The exploitation of the young by the old revealed. 71 percent of Greeks between ages 18 to 24 voted "no" in the Greek referendum.

The referendum exposed deep rifts among Greek society along the lines of age, income and political affiliation.
Asked to explain the rift within their generation, several young Greeks called it a divide between haves and have-nots: those with secure jobs versus the unemployed or under-employed.


Here are the subsidies their baby boomer grandparents have imposed on the millennials in the US:

Obamacare
Medicare/Social Security
College loans, exploding tuition
Public sector pensions
Teacher unions
Housing subsidies that keep housing prices from falling.

How much longer will millennials put up with this?


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Posted 13 November 2015 - 11:14 AM

“Millennial men are faring especially poorly,” said David Madland, economic policy director at the Center for American Progress.

“Male unemployment is higher than female unemployment, male labor force participation is lower than in prior generations, their hourly wage is less than it was in the early 1970s, and male educational attainment is increasingly slipping behind women, which doesn’t bode well for the future.”


Are these men a 21st century version of Peter Pan’s “lost boys”? Turn back the clock 50 years and American males typically were real “men” by 22 or so — self-supporting, married and ready to start a family. During World War II, millions of 18-year-old men idealistically and courageously volunteered to fight to defeat fascism. Go further back in history, and teenage boys worked in the family business or on the family farm. Such creatures today are extremely rare.

Instead, millions sit home in pajamas, their moms serving breakfast, while spending the day playing computer games, cooking up half-baked business plans, or vegging out with a six-pack in front of the TV. Of course, this loser-like stereotype is not true for all: Many young men work hard in good jobs and are building their lives. Many others try hard to escape the parental basement.


http://finance.yahoo...-100000038.html


Wimp Nation: Poised to Fall

The United States has become a nation of weak, pampered, easily frightened, helpless milquetoasts who have never caught a fish, fired a gun, chopped a log, hitchhiked across the country, or been in a schoolyard fight. If their cat dies, they call a grief therapist. Everything frightens Americans.

Independent? No. America is a nation of employees, afraid of the boss, trapped by the retirement system, worried that if they lose the job they won’t get another one.

Farmers can be independent. So can mechanics with their own tools, commercial fishermen with their own boats. Employees sitting in a maze of cubicles like letters in some gigantic crossword puzzle are not independent.

Self-reliant? Americans now depend on the hive for almost everything. The faucet leaks? Call the plumber. The car makes funny noises? Go to a mechanic. Someone is sneaking around your house at night? Call a cop. A porch light stops working? Call the electrician. You saw a mouse? Call a psychiatrist. Self-defense? Dear God, no. Too macho.



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Posted 14 November 2015 - 11:25 PM

great stuff great thinker, warren Pollock will be on with greg hunter tomorrow too.



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Posted 24 March 2017 - 02:36 PM

Simon Sinek explains how the millennial generation became so entitled. A combination of failed parenting strategies, technology, impatience and environment have created a wave of young people who can't hack it in the real world.  

 

 


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