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“Most millennials I know struggle with mental illness to some degree. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and more. I wonder how much of that anxiety comes from being told that wanting a living wage, affordable college, or adequate healthcare means that you’re being a spoiled entitled brat. It really doesn’t. The generations before us HAD a living wage, affordable college, and adequate healthcare. But now, inflation has far surpassed the minimum wage, college tuition and loan interest rates are through the proverbial roof, and medical bills are the top cause of bankruptcy in America.
These things were not caused by millennials, but after being raised on a steady diet of “you’re entitled,” we don’t even need to hear it from other people. We believe it about ourselves. As a society, we now romanticize struggle, busy-ness, and “the hustle.” If you’re not losing sleep and working two or three jobs, you must not want it enough.
What if we’re actually not crazy? What if wanting to work one full-time job and have the ends not only meet but actually overlap a little is NOT an entitled pipe dream?”
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The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation – Born Again Minimalist
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sordidcrayons
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Try it.
Imagine having one straightforward job - hard work, but work you can handle - that you know will be there tomorrow, and will be there with raises in ten years. It pays for your nice little home, you have no debt because your education was affordable, and groceries, medical/dental care, utilities, and a bit of entertainment all fall inside your budget - with enough left over to put away in a retirement plan. You are safe, you are solid, and life is sensible.
When I imagine that, I first get heart-sick at how impossibly beautiful it sounds, and then I feel how the fear and stress and self-destructive-coping-mechanisms would just float the fuck away.
(via classicalmonoblogue)
“Most millennials I know struggle with mental illness to some degree. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and more. I wonder how much of that anxiety comes from being told that wanting a living wage, affordable college, or adequate healthcare means that you’re being a spoiled entitled brat. It really doesn’t. The generations before us HAD a living wage, affordable college, and adequate healthcare. But now, inflation has far surpassed the minimum wage, college tuition and loan interest rates are through the proverbial roof, and medical bills are the top cause of bankruptcy in America.
These things were not caused by millennials, but after being raised on a steady diet of “you’re entitled,” we don’t even need to hear it from other people. We believe it about ourselves. As a society, we now romanticize struggle, busy-ness, and “the hustle.” If you’re not losing sleep and working two or three jobs, you must not want it enough.
What if we’re actually not crazy? What if wanting to work one full-time job and have the ends not only meet but actually overlap a little is NOT an entitled pipe dream?”
-
The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation – Born Again Minimalist
(via
sordidcrayons
)
Try it.
Imagine having one straightforward job - hard work, but work you can handle - that you know will be there tomorrow, and will be there with raises in ten years. It pays for your nice little home, you have no debt because your education was affordable, and groceries, medical/dental care, utilities, and a bit of entertainment all fall inside your budget - with enough left over to put away in a retirement plan. You are safe, you are solid, and life is sensible.
When I imagine that, I first get heart-sick at how impossibly beautiful it sounds, and then I feel how the fear and stress and self-destructive-coping-mechanisms would just float the fuck away.
(via classicalmonoblogue)
