Baby Boomers: Millennials are Lazy - are they right?

Matt Walsh dives into the claim made by the Baby Boomer generation that Millennials are much less ambitious than they are. Are they right? If so, don't they deserve some of the blame?

[coolworx]

Boomers went from idolising John Lennon to Gordon Gecko.
This was the original ME generation, which first revelled in adolescent idealism (and all the pretty sex that came with it), and then when they got pudgy and bald, decided to become capitalist pigs.
I'm one of the first Gen X'ers (1967), so I've seen the whole sloppy solipsism from beginning, to the current end.

[EndoftheAge]

Old people complaining about young people. I don't think that's ever changed.

[nla]

In 73 my father was paid $16/hr to unload and palletize peas and green beans overnight part time. That job currently pays $10/hr and half the workforce disappears when an FDA inspector comes by. Spanish is a requirement for managers. Last time they were raided Three social security numbers were working 400hrs+ per week.

[keegzorr]

Matt is so right. I'm only 19 and I've learned more in the past year then I did throughout all of high school.

[kathyberry]

I'm a boomer and have three millennial grandkids. They are all hard workers. They all held jobs during high school and the oldest graduated college which he paid for himself. It's all about who raises them.

[wetz]

I work 7 days a week for inflated money. No real savings, no family. I hate living in 2018. I wish I grew up in the boomers time. I did enjoy the 90s.

[LightNight]

As a Millennial, I have agreed with every video and opinion that Matt Walsh has presented, including this one. He finds a way to connect to a targeted audience that he disagrees with, be cordial and respectful with his ideology against the philosophies that they hold and still find a way to penetrate the deep thoughts that circle around almost every way of thinking that a person of my generation faces with question, as well as resolve in their own belief

[theblackcatvieweraccount]

You are 100% correct. I never went to college, but in highschool everyone was demanding that I choose a field to go into. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life until LAST YEAR. I'm 25. How are young people suppose to know this life changing question, when they have never been exposed to career fields that they might be interested in?

[-PureRogue]

The thing is why we are not motivated to go to top is because we despise work politics, we despise how things are run, how owners are trying to get everything out of workers, giving nothing in return and contrary cutting every expense possible, just so they can put more in their pockets.

[snowfunevery]

Every generation thinks the next is lazy. Always has been that way, always will be

[Ninitschga]

Completely agree. If you saw your whole family falling apart in nasty and destructive feuds as well as divorce, custody & heritage battles over even the last penny - you grow up without any urge to proceed money and materialistic things, because you know that these motives destroyed your family. Ironically at the same time you are destined to fail setting up a stable family of your own, unless you overcome those experiences, learn your lessons from it and move on. And once you do, you find yourself with a complete lack of social skills from all the childhood abuse and trauma you went through... But let me tell you: After you learn to trust again and once your respect for people and faith in honesty and virtue is rebuilt - it’s heaven on earth!

[adjacentearth]

From Gen Z here, school is a waste, I’ve never really super excelled at anything. And again the system really keeps us set back. As well as us being forced to do a little of everything instead of something that we have interest in. I enjoy law, but having no prior knowledge of that other than family, it’s hard to excel when schools force me to do sciences and stuff. Especially when their excuse is that I need college for that.

[ChiToMeKcagO]

I'm a millennial and I'm lazy

[heatherjones]

I like the subtle but effective background music..very good. Excellent vid too Matt W.

[mememan]

As a conservative millennial I can indeed confirm that i’m lazy as shit

[Hallucinogenitals]

Im a millennial, the laziness is real. So is his comment about the education system, i left high school with a 4.05 gpa and still didn’t feel ready at all for the real world/college.

[thebumshow]

Damn right we lazy. My father works like 12hours a day 7 days a week. I don't even understand how..

[GuitarGodgt]

I'm at the very very very beginning of the millennial generation (meaning my childhood before age 10 didn't have internet).

It's incredibly hard to take anything a boomer says seriously about work (yes I work), college (yes did that as well), buying houses (yes have done that as well), raising kids (yep), promotions, retirement, etc...

It's like listening to someone talk about a fucking foreign planet.

Oh shit you just walked into a business and asked for a job? Must have been pretty great.

I had to answer a 100 question personality test. I had to upload my resume and then fill out a bunch of information that was already on said resume. I had to do a drug test (no big deal, I don't do them, but it's still a hassle), and then had to sit through 2 weeks of training that consisted of a bunch of "no shit sherlock" information because you guys won't leave the workforce and you SUCK at retaining information.

Oh you paid for college outright? Do you know how much a year of college is, even at a community college level? No you don't, because it's gone up significantly faster than the rate of inflation. I blame the government, but I also blame your generation for giving students unsecured, unforgivable loans.

Houses? Yeah you bought a house in 1980 for $45k, bravo good for you. The average house is $200k today.

Raising kids? Yeah welcome to 2018, shit has changed. Technology has changed. Ah who am I kidding, you can't even use a fucking computer. Teaching you how to use one is the single most frustration thing a millennial can do, and we aren't even that good at it. We just know how to google instead of having our fucking hands held.

Pensions? The fuck is that dude. Oh shit you mean you got your employer/government to actually fund your retirement? Must have been the shit.

Promotions? lol nah, work for a few years and move on. Working your way up isn't how it works anymore. You work for a while, get skills, boss piles on more work, you dip out to another higher paying job. Rinse, repeat.

[nicholaswilkowski]

There is no room to investigate further

[valentinamorales]

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