{"id":7363,"date":"2018-04-07T23:48:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2018-03-27T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:52:59","slug":"linked-how-the-baby-boomers-not-millennials-screwed-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/04\/07\/linked-how-the-baby-boomers-not-millennials-screwed-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;How the baby boomers \u2014 not millennials \u2014\u00a0screwed America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2197,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.vox.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/20\\\/16772670\\\/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251008040425\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.vox.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/20\\\/16772670\\\/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 22:52:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-24 21:35:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 17:24:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 19:03:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 17:31:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 19:21:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 20:27:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 17:26:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-04 20:59:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 00:55:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 13:27:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 00:54:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 05:31:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-24 23:39:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-28 19:57:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 06:32:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 06:32:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2017\/12\/20\/16772670\/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How the baby boomers \u2014 not millennials \u2014\u00a0screwed America &#8211; Vox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This is a generation that is dominated by feelings, not by facts. The irony is that boomers criticize millennials for being snowflakes, for being too driven by feelings. But the boomers are the first big feelings generation. They\u2019re highly motivated by feelings and not persuaded by facts. And you can see this in their policies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take this whole fantasy about trickle-down economics. Maybe it was worth a shot, but it doesn\u2019t work. We know it doesn\u2019t work. The evidence is overwhelming. The experiment is over. And yet they\u2019re still clinging to this dogma, and indeed the latest tax bill is the latest example of that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Time after time, when facts collided with feelings, the boomers chose feelings.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not that simple. I can understand the argument but I think the headline frames this as millennial are fault-less. They\u2019re not. We are all in this together. I think the biggest threat our generation has isn\u2019t laziness, it\u2019s that we are not living the nuclear family. We aren\u2019t having kids at 20, buying homes at 25, financing to the hills and buying fancy mattresses. We are consumers but with a lot less baggage and when you aren\u2019t having babies, you aren\u2019t increasing the GDP. Every economy needs babies to grow (aka future tax-payers). If I have a kid, I\u2019ll be 35.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are all at a similar emotional level but millennials talk about their feelings much more and therefore are criticized for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How the baby boomers \u2014 not millennials \u2014\u00a0screwed America &#8211; Vox: This is a generation that is dominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-07T23:49:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"2540d19b-12d8-4afd-9df6-91b4caeadbbb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-07T23:49:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJUDRmxLYSv2d9pG0yurbuw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1UL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6426,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/linked-why-more-millennials-are-avoiding-sex\/","url_meta":{"origin":7363,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Why more millennials are avoiding sex&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Washington Post: Recent research also shows that, overall, millennials \u2014 people born between the early 1980s and 2000 \u2014 have fewer sexual partners than baby boomers and those in Generation X, the group immediately preceding them. 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