theHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoTIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wingmedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square467linkfedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down124
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minus-squareWindex007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·4 days agoI think there is something to the “millennial’s refuse to grow up” mantra that boomers and genx accuse us of. Like, if growing up is adopting a “fuck you i got mine” mentality… nah.
minus-square𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚃𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚄𝚙@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoWill be interesting to see if that changes when the millennial’s boomer parents die and pass on the wealth. I think it will further divide the have and have nots with the wealth concentrating in fewer hands.
minus-squareavg@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoIt does help that most millennials didn’t get theirs.
minus-squareObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoZoomers didn’t either but they’re perhaps even more conservative than boomers were
I think there is something to the “millennial’s refuse to grow up” mantra that boomers and genx accuse us of.
Like, if growing up is adopting a “fuck you i got mine” mentality… nah.
Will be interesting to see if that changes when the millennial’s boomer parents die and pass on the wealth. I think it will further divide the have and have nots with the wealth concentrating in fewer hands.
It does help that most millennials didn’t get theirs.
Zoomers didn’t either but they’re perhaps even more conservative than boomers were