We are the millennials

Adult content ahead, disguised as children content.

We are the spoiled, lazy, entitled, tech-obsessed generation, who fail miserably at what’s come to be known as “adulting”. We become a neurotic mess when things go out of control.

We are the self-centric narcissists especially devoid of purpose-driven work. We are cool headed, open minded and ridiculously rebellious. We are the generation where our ladies often complain toxic masculinity. We have an attention span of a hamster and would require constant stimulation. We are the millennials.

We face enormous criticism from parents, relatives, our bosses especially from the policy

makers when policies don’t support their cause. Recently Nirmala Sitharam our Financial Minister tried to blame the millennials for the economic slowdown. Let’s #boycottmillennials after discussing this article.

Every generation can be defined by its own attitudes, quirks and fantasies they grew up with. Also each generation thinks they are better than the other generations. Millennials are

just one among such a generation. We are more liberal, more open minded, more open to same sex marriages and yet constantly fringed upon. But unlike you old people we get

offended by sexism, racism and classism and not by a box of tampons.

Okay let’s confess,

we are not feckless juveniles anymore; we are grown ass adults and the challenges we face

have not been faced before. We are the most educated, over- worked, over stressed and underpaid and yet are portrayed as a mess. The truth is we try to live in the worse financial health that faces imminent recession.

Thanks to our previous generations, you started two major wars and a worldwide recession. The 2008 recession reverberates even a decade later

and no strong policy has been framed henceforth. Student debt is a separate economy now

and suicide rates among us are phenomenal. Whose fault are those and whom to blame?

The Blame Game

Blaming others is an evolutionary self-defense mechanism. Humans look for causes when bad things happen, agreed. But the problem, with that is we try to fix on a simple solution rather than a complex one. Some common criticisms by the senior veterans,

"Millennials cause economic slowdown.”

We all know, who wrecked the economy causing the 08’ recession. You veterans are so fortuitous, you brag living during the golden age of capitalism. Losing your job was fine for

you with all your money in bank, but getting a job was harder for us with all the student

debt clinging on to our back.

The crash caused a sharp rise in unemployment rate among the millennials than for the

older age groups. After all, companies were hiring 30 years of work experience which is ridiculous, for a 20 year old graduate millennial.

Unlike you, we are trying to playing-it-safe, risk averse and self-reliant because we saw what 2008 had done to our parents. Hey, “slow and steady after all wins” guys.

“Millennials killing industries “

• You guys are killing the insurance industry.

We are already dead inside by the anxiety we live with, so we don’t bother much.

• You guys are not buying diamonds.

Most graduates are still working in grocery stores, soooo…..

• You guys are killing cable TVs.

If you expect to have the world in your hand and not use it, you are a psychopath.

• You guys are killing auto industry, luxury brands.

Thanks to the innovative renting industry we could still afford to live at least, with all those student debts.

But industries are meant to be changed right?

1) Remember the time Kodak’s strategic failure was the direct cause of Kodak's

decades-long decline, as digital photography destroyed its film-based business model. No

one killed films, right?

Those models just went out of fashion.

2) Oh! Remember floppy disks? Nowadays we tend to store data in cloud, we killed the

hard storage industries. Sorry guys, can’t help it.

That’s what industries are supposed to do..

They are supposed to progress. The world is changing at a faster pace than ever before. More innovative technologies disrupt the

previous ones. With the change of tech, habits change and comes the change in culture. If

millennials kill an industry, may be those are supposed to be. Not to be blamed of.

We should focus more on trying to push start new industries, try to remember how

disruptive the computer and its subsidiary invention the internet were. We had to find areas

were a new industry can be built upon. Take for example the space tourism industry, bored

of travelling all around the world? Startups are now trying to get you above the world. This

is not a joke and a number of companies are betting on it. Why not focus on industries that never existed before?

The capitalists should try to focus wealth henceforth different, understanding our culture

and flow the money towards the steadfast. Millennials prefer health and wellness and we

value money more ethically.

The economy killed the millennials and not the vice versa. It’s not entirely fair, but that blame is a price to pay for increasing authority and stronger cultural voices. Spurred by

social media, we expanded our cultural language. As our significance grows, we will just prove how much more we can accomplish. While

most worry how to adjust for the world that changes at such a fast pace, we are thrown into the deep end as long as we are alive.

We might seem a little rebellious but you can be sure

we will defy expectations.

- Pranesh kumaar

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