What's wrong with Millennials? Part 3 in Current Events

Millennials got dumped into adulthood with all forces against them. They entered adulthood with a lot of developmental delays and they also entered society at a time of financial collapse. That collapse was one of the worst in human history and it is still one we’re suffering from today. It’s one that just got compounded (thanks Corona). Millennials got told that getting good grades, going to a good college, getting a certain type of partner and doing certain things with their money
would yield positive results. It didn’t. In fact it led them to the very thing they were taught to try and avoid.

Tuition costs were too high and they took out massive student loans because they were told that having a job would take care of that. However, even with a degree they couldn’t get jobs because there was a backup in the natural cycle of job progression to retirement and so no one could actually retire. Overqualified people had to take jobs they would not have even considered before. The Millennials were now competing in the workplace against their parent’s generation and even their grandparent’s generation. Not only could they not compete against it with their resumes, they had not been brought up for competition in the first place. In the 80s-90s equality was a high value for the boomers. Competition was devalued and they handed out participation awards and discouraged competition. Now Millennials are in a highly competitive environment that they were not prepared for. They had debts that they could not payback. No use for their degrees and they had to go back to entry-level jobs that they held before and during college. The kind of jobs in which many Millennials have to hold multiple of just to pay their bills. They had to come to terms with the fact they’ll likely never be able to own a home or be able to afford to have kids. Many moved back in with their parents to catch up on their debts or save up.

This reward they were promised for their hard work and investment started to look exactly like what it is. A pipe dream. One they’re still expected to go for and are criticized for not achieving. Now here we are in 2020 and the Millennial is experiencing a retraumatization related to the COVID 19 pandemic. Mostly especially by the shutdown and control measures that were enacted by members of the previous generation who are currently in control in the government.

Right now the Millennials who did defy the odds and broke out of the pattern and started their own businesses are now finding themselves in the exact position as the rest of their counterparts. All of their achievements are being taken away.
The overwhelming meaning they are are all taking out of it is this:
I have been duped. This is all total bullshit. It doesn’t matter how hard I work or how many things I do right I’m not in control of any of it. The generations above me can just make a decision that makes me totally powerless to ever achieve something or powerless in having it all taken away just like that. Many of the shadows that belong on to the Millennial generation fall into the category of having been duped.

The generations before the Millennials genuinely did believe that things would improve in the future. As a result the Millennial generation was sold an illusion. As a result of that illusion they distrust authority. They were indoctrinated with ideas on how to make a society work that was fundamentally flawed to begin with. A game rigged by the generation they were supposed to be led into success by. This is where the Millennial anger comes into play. Previous generations can look at their parents and feel they did a good enough job for them to be able to succeed. That’s what changed with the Millennial generation. They feel set up for failure by the previous generation. The anger is from hurt. So much hurt from the previous generation that there is an actual hatred. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed it because there was a lowkey desire that a virus would eradicate members of the previous generation so they would stop preventing Millennials from getting what they want. So they could stop being messed around with by a flawed game.