Ruth asks…
Does lend some truth to the notion that the so-called Millennial Generation is one of the sorriest ever?
Everyone likes to think the generation that comes after them is somehow worse. This study proves it may actually be true.
The idea that “kids today” are generally worried about nothing but sending 5,000 texts a day on their iphone without much interest in the world around them may not be very untrue.
“The study found that millennials were less interested in donating to charities, participating in politics or helping the environment. The results support the so-called “Generation Me” theory over the “Generation We” description often used in reference to today’s young people.
“These data suggest that the ‘Me Generation‘ label affixed to the baby boomers was unwarranted. In comparison to the proceeding generations, the boomers look significantly more selfless,” lead researcher Jean Twenge said in a press release. “It will be interesting to see how millennials are affected by the recent recession and whether future generations will reverse the trends.”"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/millennial-generation-study-fame-money_n_1354028.html?ref=business&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
admin answers:
Don’t be so hard on these kids. They are young people with very little adult life experience. A lot of them have had everything handed to them, so growing up is a bit rough.
What were you like, at 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 …. ? I know that I was every bit as self-centered and stupid, if not more.
Mary asks…
Isn’t real tax reform having the rich finally pay their fair share after a generation of failed tax cut theory?
We have watched a generation of failed Republican tax theory lead to the highest debt in the world, the largest Financial Crisis since the Great Depression, the bailout of business interests by the taxpayer, and the downgrade of the U.S. as an economic entity.
Why do we keep failing to learn the basic economic math and the lessons of history that you can’t prosper as a society if a small few are the only ones to benefit from your economic activity?
Doesn’t real tax reform mean making the rich pay for the economic mistakes that benefitted a small class of economic players at the expense of everyone else?
admin answers:
Fair is a poor choice of words if you ask me. It is too ambiguous and means something different to everyone. It just adds to the confusion of the issue.
That Bush’s Trickle On economics is an utter failure speaks for itself, the rich are getting richer which is part of the idea, but there was never any mechanism to make them “create jobs” and they do not seem so inclined to do so on their own.
We should increase taxes on the millionaires and billionaires at the very least, to offset the wars and to spend on the infrastructure to create the jobs the rich will not. I also suggest a 1% fee on all Wall Street transactions, to eliminate the current $1.3 trillion dollar spending deficit.
Joseph asks…
mindless generation of today?
if todays generation of teenagers (specifically in north america) are the future, then we better build a time machine before we get to the future. all these little idiots (mind you, i am also a teen, 15 years of age to be exact) have no respect for each other, follow each other around like little sheep, we’re all human billboards wearing crappy mono-colour (i live in canada, thats why there’s a u in colour) shirts made in china by some poor kid with a large logo like ‘HOLLISTER’ that costs $35, when it has the same quality as a wal-mart shirt (also made in china by some poor kid). there is NO LEADERS in my generation, everyone is HOMOPHOBIC, kids are texting when they are one beside another, NO ONE IN MY GENERATION CAN STEP BACK AND LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE! THIS IS SERIOUS, I’VE BEEN IN 5 SCHOOLS, and i only met 3 PEOPLE INCLUDING ME WHO TRULY CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES WEED, GOSSIP, WHAT OTHER GIRLS SAID (IM A GUY) AND THE LATEST DEGENERATE POP/ HIP-HOP SONG. thats 3 POSSIBLE LEADERS OUT OF THE 2300 KIDS I’VE MET! we are all rased as consumers, AND ITS YOUR FAULT, PARENTS! GOOD JOB YOU IDIOTS, all your kids are little s#!t-head zombies who make no self-informed decisions, have no personal tastes, have no fashion! GOOD JOB, corporate america, another generation of hating self-loathing consumers! MOST kids have no self-motivation, no interest in school, no interest in topics like philosophy, politics, world views, religion, business, technology, and idiology. WEI’RE THE TECHNOLOGY GENERATION MY-BUM! WHEN MOST KIDS MY AGE ARE TOO AFRAID TO OPEN THEIR COMPUTERS TO SEE WHATS INSIDE. THEY’RE TOO STUPID TO LEARN HOW TO DOWNLOAD VIA TORRENTS, SOMETHING MY DAD CAN DO. and when someone is different, they dress differently or do different things, THEY ARE PUT DOWN. for example, im from Europe (germany) i immigrated when i was eight. i dress with REAL style, and dont wear a billboard on my chest, and for that i am GAY! because i know how to dress, i know etiquette and i play soccer. of course, he’s gay, that explains it! no it doesnt, but it does show that you’re ignorant. THERE ARE YOUR INTERNATIONAL LEADERS! EH? also, BTW, i have a 92% in english (in canada, so thats an a+ in america) and theres kids in my class who are failing english that WERE BORN HERE! what the fudge? i speak A SECOND LANGUAGE BETTER THAN ITS NATIVE SPEAKERS? excellent educational system! right? because we capitalists know better then anyone else right?
SO….
MY QUESTION IS……
what do you think of my generation? do you agree or disagree with me, and why?
on a further note….. kids today are so focused on organized sports… they think the only way to play is to play organized…. back in Europe playing a sport as a kid means to play outside, with half-decent equipment, AND HAVE FUN! a kid form Nigeria with who plays barefoot futbol (soccer) i guaranty you has more fun and learns more about him or herself in the proccess than a kid who plays and is pressured by everyone around him. there have been studies, search this up, that back-up my opinion. mice have been left to play together in one test, in the other there is an adult. the mice that play without interupting supervison had a mush more advanced brain, because everyday you meet up with the neighborhood kids to play, there is an adventure everyday, where you have to solve problems, disputes, lead our friends, and learn to watch for yourself. you learn about people and how they think, you learn about how a group works together to achieve a goal (such as build a snow fort) i learned how to fight, how to socialize, how to do just about EVERYTHING by playing outside with friends at ages 4-12 (the first neighborhood i moved into in canada was a serbian one where there was a park shared by 2 apartment buildings where kids of all sizes went to enjoy the outdoors, and do all sorts of dangerous stuff, fun stuff, and so on. so yea. that was my rant.
firstly, little_lady. no, there is no god, im Athiest, dont tell me all this bull about how god is punisihng us. natural disasters are NATURAL, we why they happen, you can stop making stuf up now, weire in the 21st century.
secondly, Mane Kafe 1: i am generalizing, because if i did the opposite of what generalization is , the concepts of age, gender, groups would not exist in our world. YOU CAN NEVER TAKE ONE PERSON AT A TIME, ONLY GROUPS OF PEOPLE WITH SIMILARITIES! but yea, sorry for generalizing but im pretty sure the ratio of 2300 idiots: 3 sane kids is rational in that the sample size of 2300 kids is large enough to compensate for generalization. secondly: I MEANT TO LITERALLY OPEN UP A COMPUTER CASE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TECHNOLOGY WORKS BESIDES JUST USING IT AS A CONSUMER. I am able to MAKE my own computer with the knowledge i have about computers, instead of being just another dumb consumer. NEXT: I DID NOT SAY 92 IS AN A+ IN NORTH AMERICA, I SAID IT WAS AN A+ SPECIFICALLY IN CAN
admin answers:
This generation is horrible. We are actually living in the Twilight Zone now where everybody is a brainwashed sheep who follows the crowd.
Radio, TV, music and movies have gone straight to hell and is made now to only serve the younger generations with mainstream garbage and sex in it because that’s what the kids want to see and hear.
I have actually seen grown adults in their 30s to 50s who like Justin Beiber! What’s even more disturbing is that grown men like him too! We definitely are in the Twilight Zone and our next stop is hell… (by that way things are going especially in America and Canada we are doomed.
Helen asks…
Real Estate Agents?
Has any agent bought into a lead generation system or attended a seminar that was worth the money and increased your business?
admin answers:
Short answer= no. It’s uaully all a scam. 9 times out of 10 the people they set you up with can’t even get approved anyway, then you are stuck in a contract with the company and paying them.
Lisa asks…
Was Clint Eastwood right about our generation?
http://screenrant.com/clint-eastwood-man-figuratively-literally-vic-4839/
He believes we are living in a p***y generation.
Its all about who gets offended, men are effeminate weaklings with no moral values, children are killing their parents over chores, schools are spending 9 hours *discovering their feelings* rather than learning anything practical, boys are spending more time playing xbox live than outside getting fit, you can’t let your children beyond the street because sexual predators are more rampant due to a “tolerant” culture, kids think they can sleep around without marriage and live together under the guise of “sexual liberation” bull****, COLLEGE GRADUATES have NO skills whatsoever in the real world and feel entitled to a cushy six figure jobs sitting on their butt doing nothing(minimum wage or climbing the ladder is *beneath them*), music is TERRIBLE piece of garbage with all this soft sugar cookie crap, guys are dressing like girls and are cutting their wrist because someone said something “mean” to them, women(or should I say GIRLS) today don’t have a 1/10th of the STRENGTH that women had 3 generations ago, no one knows any thing about money or finances and have to live paycheck to paycheck while simultaneously spending money on a HDTV trying to also buy the BIGGEST house they can possibly afford, American Citizens (both republican AND democrat) are handing the constitution to slimy politicians because their too weak to take care of themselves and are too stupid to interpret it, Parents are spoiling their kids rotten and think that their “pumpkin poo” is a gifted genius(*spoiler* HE’S/SHE’S NOT!), no one reads books anymore and think they are entitled to television in every room, cowardly, amoral men are sleeping around and thinking they can leave the mom raising the family by herself because they think they can WHORE around like a punk, worst part of it all is that all but FEW know how to raise their kids with some d@mn sense anymore.
Parents aren’t instilling values anymore and the word “sacrifice” to raise their children is now taboo. Blind leading the blind when it comes to parenting.
Media is devoid of values and FORCES a politically correct culture where everyone is equal regardless of how hard they work.
Schools are too busy singing “kumbaya” and they wonder why they are at the bottom of the world when it comes to education.
Its “offensive” to wave the American flag boldly anymore because it might “hurt some one’s feelings” when you show support for your nation.
Nobody believes in pulling their own weight in society.(What do you think happens when nobody pulls their weight?)
Do you agree with Clint Eastwood when he said we are living in a p***y generation and when do you think this happened? (Don’t feel afraid to tell it like it is. If they can’t handle truth then they have no business answering in the first place.)
admin answers:
Of course
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