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The Second ‘Why?’ — The Reason People Roll Their Eyes at Millennials
‘Wait, but why?’
Millennials get a lot of flack. We’re called self-entitled, impatient, obsessed with instant gratification and irresponsible with money.
It’s kind of wearing.
Especially given the fact that all these are terms are hurled at us for one reason: we grew up and graduated when 2008 financial crash happened and the older generations assumed we’d just crack on and do what they did.
But we didn’t.
Instead of bracing ourselves against the financial earthquake and rebuilding the same, inflexible buildings that fell down, we stopped. We looked at the remnants and said, ‘huh…guess that doesn’t work anymore.’
And for every older generation who turned around and said, ‘get a job, get a salary, get a house, buy a new car, trust your boss,’ we said:
‘Wait…but why?’
And heard a resounding silence.
Adapt or die
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. — unknown
