Have Millenials have it the worst of living generations?

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No.  You're not getting drafted by LBJ's killing machine.

[dead0man]

Of all generations? Of course not. There are definitely specific ways in which we have it worse than Baby Boomers, though.

And there are a ton of ways you're a whole bunch better off.  Especially if you're not an upper class white.  I understand that runs counter to the narrative, but it's clearly true.

[dead0man]

hmmm.....seven?

[dead0man]

oh and at least those kids had jobs!  The millennials would totally work in a factory if one was available.  And those kids didn't have tens of thousands of dollars of student debt that they were forced to get like millennials.

[dead0man]

Well one thing is for certain, you guys are the most depressed and pessimistic generation in history.  And no, you don't have the reasons to be that way.

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What about the fact that we are projected to be the first generation in american history to be poorer than our parents?

The generation before yours was told the same thing...and I'd be willing to bet the idea wasn't invented in 1984.

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The air in the US is MUCH cleaner now than it has been in a long, long time.  Wiki leaded gasoline.  Wiki smog.  It ain't perfect, never will be, but like with most things, we're getting better.

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and far and away the most toys/tools/sh**t.  Cool toys too.  We are flooded in ways to be entertained.

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And plenty of reasons to be optimistic too, it just doesn't make the news like the bad things do.

I'm not saying everything is rainbows, puppies and unicorns, but it's not all clouds, death and fire either.