[USER=3505]@craigh[/USER] you are a millennial, and one of the hardest workers I know. Your company is owned by a millennial, and your best employees and coworkers are millennials.
The reality is that Millennials are the largest participants in the labor market. They are not a small demographic that is participating in the workforce. Furthermore, by age groups, a larger percentage of individuals within the millennial demographic participate in the labor force than other age groups. This doesn't align with the notion that millennials are 'lazy' when they are in fact more likely to be employed than other age-based cohorts.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/11/millennials-largest-generation-us-labor-force/
https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
These are economic factors that can't be blamed on Millennials themselves. Decades of irresponsible fiscal and monetary policy have caused for an economy with weak fundamentals from before Millennials were participating in the labor market. With wages having remained stagnant over the past few decades while costs of education, housing, and living in general have skyrocketed.
In addition to this, the 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, indicating that Millennials are doing better in this regard than other generations
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2019-01-11/stretched-thin-majority-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck
You should have picked Tide Pods as the argument here. Rates of smoking actual cigarettes are lowest among millennials aside from individuals 65+ (Smokers probably died before making it into this age bracket) https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm . Smoking is more closely associated with socioeconomic factors rather than age alone, and although vaping is not safe, it is objectively less harmful than smoking tobacco.
The article you share references the prior average of 23 (for males) being a statistic from 1965 when the average life expectancy was 66.8 years. The life expectancy for males in 2019 is 79 in the USA, and 82 in Canada. That means that the average marriage age in 1965 was when a male was 34.4% through their life. With today's life expectancy that would be 37.9% (USA) and 36.6% (Canada) which is a marginal difference.
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html
http://www.geoba.se/population.php?pc=world&type=015&page=1
This is also a poor point to try to paint an entire generation negatively when there have also been significant cultural shifts which would be naive to pin on millenials alone.
When they finally showed up to vote, they elected AOC
Fair.
This is inaccurate to pin on Millenials themselves. More likely, Social media is accountable for allowing the spread of misinformation and creation of so-called echo chambers. However, interesting to note is that Anti-vaxxers are more likely to be:
- Men
- Low Income
- 45-54 years old
- Residing in Rural locations
https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-not-who-you-think-she-is/
Although this is a trend, it will always be most easy to pinpoint sentiment in regards to how education should be funded on the demographic that is most actively involved in pursuing higher education. At the same time however, it is also starting to become more common for students to make other arragngments to fund their education - including having employers and investors pay the costs in exchange for a percentage of future earnings, allowing for the funding of education to be more of an equity market than a debt market
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/11/at-purdue-student-aid-based-on-future-earnings-could-revolutionize-college-debt/
I'm down for Millenial bashing, but there is a difference between understanding and marginalizing.
