Because Y comes after X, we prefer to call ourselves
Millenials actually or 'the generation - along with X - that has to fix the mistakes of others'
Obviously this is a generalisation but:
The baby boomers squandered every advantage that their parents provided for them, and yet they have the nerve to complain that we're not in the same position they were. They sat by and did nothing while the economy got screwed for what they perceived as their own personal gain. Yes, let's continue slashing taxes even though our education and infrastructure is lagging behind other industrialized countries. Let's allow home values to become artificially inflated so we can take out equity we have no means of repaying. Let's outsource all our jobs so that we can pay 10% less on goods that are half the quality. Let's completely violate core our principles because we don't like gays and communists (although a lot of the blame for that lies with the so-called 'greatest generation').
To put it another way all our elders complain about how bad Gen-Y is. But Gen-Y isn't the problem. These baby-boomers are the most spoilt, self centred people I've ever seen. They all grew up in the post-war economic boom. They had luxuries and technology, free education, cheap housing - the world was their oyster. They are the ones running our governments, our business, the entire world. They've known fossil fuels were a liability for 40 odd years or more. We could all be driving electric cars, but they're greedy, complacent and lazy and now we're stuck with exorbitant oil prices and the looming disaster of climate change. They had their cheap housing, they've bought up all the good properties, inflated the housing market. They had their free (or at least extremely cheap) education too. They told their children they can't have jobs without a degree, then they force them in to 5-figure debts to get jobs that don't even exist. They control our banks and governments and together they have royally messed up the European and US economies because of it. People wonder why Gen-Y are so disenchanted, well, this is why. They've screwed up the environment, our education system, our government, our economy and they've simply shrugged and said "Oh well, we got ours and remember you lot, you've still have to pay for our retirement" and heaved the burden on to us. I'll be glad once they start to die off, because then we can work at making a better and sustainable future.
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