millenials

On “Luck” and Economic Decline

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 2, 2020

I want to push back on the idea that millennials are an "unlucky" generation, facing economic strife, pandemics, and other factors that are severely limiting their lifetime earnings. They aren't unlucky. They are the victims of the New Gilded Age, where older people destroyed the...

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More Useful Advice from Management Professors

By Erik Loomis

On June 7, 2018

So--Business is the biggest bullshit major in all of higher education. These are majors for people in college who don't actually want to be in college, who don't want to.

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Avocado Toast for All!

By Erik Loomis

On June 1, 2018

The kids are alright. 👀Among teenagers *pre-registered* to vote in California, only 9.44% have chosen to register as Republicans. https://t.co/XZ0M40Kzwv— James Lambert (@hellofasandwich) June 1, 2018 Evidently, it's about 50%.

What Is Truth?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 14, 2018

I really hate older people blaming everything on millenials. First, it's dumb. Second, nothing is their fault except for the return of questionable facial hair! Sure, it'd be great to ignore the massive debt the young face and how that holds them back by blaming...

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I Can’t Tell You to Get Off My Lawn if You Are Too Polite to Step On It in the First Place

By Erik Loomis

On June 24, 2014

Evidently the kids these days are best behaved in recent American history, avoiding the habits and mistakes their parents used to throw their lives away. I knew I was disappointed.

LessBadProblems The fact that two of those are obvious attempts to struggle with women's emancipation through comedy has been mentioned before. Compare it to the short-lived TV version of The Ghost and Mrs Muir...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,610 · April 24, 2024
vormela Your last point makes sense! My memory of the mall was that it was all clearly a facade. Your boss would smoke in the bathroom and not clean the toilet and the back of the store was completely...
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Remember that every adult was a chain -smoking drunk suffering from Depression-caused childhood malnutrition and about half the men had severe untreated PTSD.
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,610 · April 24, 2024
Hank I am pretty sure the Atlantic is fully on board with running over pro-palestinian protestors though they will say it in the most polite way possible
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cereal Black ladies kissing white gu—wait, they actually did that.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,610 · April 24, 2024