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Our generation does not have the same opportunities as the previous generation; it is difficult not to be concerned about the future and angry about the past. 

It is normal to see more Millennials living with their parents than with roommates. Marriage, having children and buying a house has to be delayed longer than before; according to the seniors, we are the ones to blame along with other things they say like lazy. No matter where you are, it seems this generation has to try harder to achieve less than any generation before. Rent/mortgage could consume half of the income; jobs are unstable if you can find one and probably you are overqualified for it.

In order to have a decent life, we have to live with DEBT, to study we have to take a student loan and probably many of us won’t be able to retire until we are 75. Salaries have declined and entire sectors have disappeared. At the same time, the cost of living has increased. It is clear that there are not enough opportunities for all of us.

Are we the ones to blame? Is the previous generation to blame? Do we have to adapt our lifestyle? Is the government capable to do something?

I think you are just talking about US here dude.
This has nothing to do with the rest of the World.

Rest of the World goes through many other things. Some go through war. Some go through an economic boom.

Who is to blame for you situation? I don't know, probably your government and your banks.
You have to understand that after financial crisis of 2007 it is harder to get a loan for a house and you are still paying for those bank bailouts to this day with inflation they like to call quantitative easing.

Financial crisis of 2007 started in the US, so the effect of it is felt in US the most.
It is no coincidence Bitcoin was born at that time. This is why you can find references of bank bailouts in the first Bitcoin block.

Actually I have lived in different countries and it is the same situation, I have friends from all over the world and they have experienced the same and feel the same way, and actually, I do not live in the US.

Why are the past generation live in a better way than this generation?I think its just the same.Living with debts, no opportunity to go to school, less job vacancy and so on.Its already an old problem since the beginning.Those millenials you are talking that are getting lazy because they had no opportunity to go to school, find some decent job and just relying to parents help is not to be blamed to government its to be blamed by their ownself.They are the one who manage their life and life is really quiet hard to live without working hard to sustain our daily needs.So dont blame the past generation nor the government rather blame our ownself.Waiting for governments help feels like waiting for nothing, so move your ass and do everything to  survived.

I think past generation and Millennials now are facing scariest financial future maybe it's because everything is unsupervised. There are still people born in any era that lead the change. Don't lose hope, there will still be great things to look forward to.

whatever you are facing , do u want to give same to next generation ? If not then raise your voice against Tyrant System. If you are living in USA then first thing is .. You government Foreign policies are burden on your head. They are taxing you to wage war in other nations. Its your right to raise voice and ask for your taxed money , which is for you.

we do not have to be a slave to the monetary system.. in a village or town, In a rural setting, we can grow our crops organically.  and we can live a very happy life..

who would take a step in this?

Definitely millennials should take that step. They should invest in real estate or run a business to gain a financial freedom sadly, the education system did not teach that. Our world general education system teach millennials to be sheep not a creative thinker.

Some rich people as an example Robert Kiyosaki, use DEBT to get richer. And you do not need to go to school or college to study.

we have no right to blame ourselves or previous generations, God gives us life in this world is determined by him, so all we have to do now is work hard and smart, see every opportunity that is made land of work, and one more thing we should not blame the government, I am very confident that the government also must try to think of its people, look for opportunities and open employment, but because of the many unemployment then it seems unseen, let my brother rise and fix our lives with a harder effort

Agreed, this generation is waking up and speaking up, there are a lot of things that we should do to make a change and get more opportunities in society.

Move my ass is what I am doing my whole life, and I am trying to survive as you, but that is not what we deserve, we have the right to more opportunities, we are not slaves, we have the responsibility of work, but we have the right to have better opportunities, all of us should have at least a stable job and a clear retirement plan, but that is not the case.

seriously??...this is without a doubt, the most coddled generation in history, the incessant whining is a dead giveaway...so you have it harder than the depression generation?...who had debt to the point that millions of people were kicked out into the street....who had to live with ACTUAL hunger....who had to beg for any job...and took it thankfully...I see the millennial generation as the first generation that have become so entangled in the safety net, that they actually believe that there is no hope...and im just talking about one past generation in America....if you have a student loan, then you went to college...that puts you WELL within the top 1% of the world as far as opportunity goes...the vast, overwhelming majority of the world lives on about ONE usd per day...try that

edit:  and btw, if you are intelligent enough to blame the educational system or your parents, then you are intelligent enough to go on youtube and within a month watch every video from one university on business, economics, marketing etc...seriously, im not trying to be a dick, but all you need is an idea, a couple dollars and some business sense and you can be the next mark Cuban...oh yeah, and patience too...good luck

normal read: some govs still follow this agenda to the letter :


easy once it is seen.

Yeah, I concentrated on the US to much in my post, but financial crisis was felt all across the World to some extent as US has quite an impact on economy.
Countries that didn't have a lot to do with US suffered less, but this was called a Global financial crisis for a reason, so you are correct.

It's a big world. In some countries there are still many opportunities to make money and build a great life. If you are a programmer in Eastern Europe, you will live like a king. Maintaining a middle class quality of life for 2 (two!!!) years, you will be able to buy your own apartment with the standard programmer's salary in Kiev, Ukraine. Yeah, the country is poor, but still it might be better than anything that could be achieved in the US or other developed country by some.

I think the reason that we don't have the same opportunities as the last generation or even the generation before is because there are no more opportunities. The world has become too populated that job and pay opportunities are lower and rarer. More and more people are desperate enough to work longer for less. Why do you think we outsource jobs to third world counties? Because labor is cheaper there. Same reason why factories are built in china than in the US. So yeah, don't be surprised that it would harder for a person to live the dream anymore.

Governments working with bankers and corporations are to blame.

If you are in your 20s in London you are screwed. All the cheap housing has been turned into million pound flats and wages havent increased in 20 years.

I think, that there a lot of errors of governments. Because social politic may be on the low level. If earlier you can get your own house from your job, if you worked for 5 years, for example. But now you should get huge credits, including because of the high price.
There appeared too many private companies, which can't give a lot of good things, which it can give the national company.
Also, money, which  country gets from the ground don't go to the common people

Prices are growing, but salaries - now.
I think that's all problems from the money.
Don't enough money - can't buy something really what you need, like a house. Don't have own house - need to rent or live with parents. And think about the future every day

they are pushing us to be consumption society.. new model phone, new car, and to work like a slave for a new big house. Those who do not use their minds  live like that..  The education system is disgraceful, except for Finland..
 Turkey is my country, people are more slaves in going from day to day.  where is your country?

The previous generation is to blame. Why?

If those previous generation continue what their parents are doing, we can say that we in our new generation will be the same as them. Now, they are blaming us, telling us stories about the past on what they are experiencing but the fact that they are not doing it the same means that the result to us will also be different.

We will not be called the new generation if the previous generation did not change us and continue the past generation. We adapted and in time we change, we developed. Yes they are to blame, but they are also the reason of our development.

I think that the blame is not solely to the previous generation, the parents. I do also believe that the new generation should be held accountable for all of these. The reason why we, the millennials, is different from the older ones is because our world is ever changing. Hence, all of the people are subjected to also change. We cannot choose when and where to change. Yet, we can choose what is that choice of change.

just a big lol... but always it depends where you live

debt :

https://i0.wp.com/factsmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/30-countries-with-the-highest-lowest-debt-to-gdp-ratio.png?resize=768%2C576

on the same idea, you can look at ferility, age of the first child, divorce rate etc... very funny in graph...

then the thailandization of the west :

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/26/sugar-daddy-website-targeting-belgian-students-faces-legal-action-richmeetbeautiful


this one is just lol a fiat pumper and a presstitute.

https://marriedbiography.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Andrea-and-Alan-768x480.jpg

now the fun part :

http://earthjay.com/earthquakes/20110311_tohoku_oki/wrong_map/tohoku_model_tsunami_seasurfac_elevation_ignorance.png

and

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wDggP0MnUhg/Uuuk68Iw2FI/AAAAAAAAA8s/aBzVPhiPWhg/s1600/chrnd_consequence_ecologyCons_02_uk.jpg

can I add mass animal die off, jails fulll of plants users, censorship... anyway anyway, all his rozy give my keta and lithium and the world will be awesome !!! :)

Well the previous generation, having been able to experience more hardships, probably thought it best to take it easy on the newer generation which can really be a two edged sword. Technology made us lazy. Google, wikipedia, facebook and the internet probably made this generation reliant on technology

When things like this happen there is only one entity to blame, the guys running the show. Who else? The government failed this new generation, they will never be able to afford a home. Maybe its by design or maybe its just pure incompetence. Who knows.. we have to live with this and deal with this. I was in the same situation, my parents paid 85,000 for their first house. I paid 350,000. Now new homes where I live start around 800,000.. Times change yet our salaries stay the same. It's the governments fault. You see that failed to govern now we have this situation.

Can't agree with the TS. Millenials really have no boundaries, neither physical, nor mental. The only problem for me is that many of them live so careless and happy and partying that by 25 or 30 they find themselves still not ready to work hard. The best solution for me is your own business, let it be small, but those who seek, definetely fine opportunities to live good in this century getting best of it, just your choice

For me it's a mixture of fault in the past generation and the now. Our society's problem today developed because of the past problems, continuing with today's problems. The lack of natural resources causes things to be pricier than before. And why do we lack the resources? Because of the changes in the environment: climate change, erosion and even global warming. These changes are the effects of neglecting nature and taking it for granted. But I do believe that there is still hope for us and the future generations. Hope is not lost.

  In talking about generation we have taking out from past and future.Right now we are in the stage millennium generation in fact most of the people influence every generation present, like right now we are engaging ourself in social media fanatics and therefore also behavior attitude will affected because of the shifting. We are in stage of changing again and be welcome the phoenix generation and called be a base computer software genenation this era is computer motivated good luck to all

I was thinking of living in the woods but a village is also good, I recommend you read this book Walden; or, Life in the Woods

The opportunities may be there. But comparatively there's much more risk involved for the new generations. Back in the day people could get jobs for life with a pension and support a family on a single income. While it's definitely possible for individuals to earn a lot of money, it's worse overall for the average person.

Not saying that there's any obvious solution, or that things need to go back that way though. It's just the way it's worked out.

don't be such a crybaby. take manners to your own hands instead of crying about it over the internet! improve yourself and live your life to the fullest and dont worry about your generation! only worry about yourself and what YOU are doing with YOUR life!

In one word: OVERPOPULATION.
In our parents time, there were 1,000.000 people less than now.  Besides, the life our parents achieve was based on loans. And now, we all are paying the loans.
Of course, it isn't happening worldwide, there are many different places and many different ways of life. Also, it depends on which part of your own country do you live in, for there are many differences between countryside and the big cities.
Anyway, I get your point. When our parents were in their twenties, they used to have a forty-years loan and where all this time paying for the house you grew up in. Now, this is difficult to get a stable job, and far more a house and a loan. Also, more people get to study at the university, and women are no longer seen as child-makers, so they also get to the university and so.
So, in a resume, the way of life is just changing. From my point of view, this is truly positive for people to stop having children. The planet has enough population, far more than needed, and there are still many countries in which families still have 9 sons and daughters per couple. We are already enough, so maybe this is better to travel and not being attached to anywhere, due to the global situation: opportunities can happen anywhere, so be prepared to travel and change your life for a while.

Well it depends on where you live. Opportunities still exists but it's harder to find them if you live in a rich country. One extreme example is japan. The over competitiveness is sucking the life out of them. And a lot find it hard to get a job. On the previous posts you said you tried living in different countries. You should also consider if your skill set matches the prerequisite of the opportunities available. But yes i do agree with you, still generally it is harder for millennials. We have one advantage though and that's the availability of technology. Learning has never been easier thanks to the internet, we just have to utilize it properly. We do have bigger challenges but we are more capable of equipping ourselves with the necessary tools

I think what he said applies to almost everywhere in the world aside from those that are victims of war as you’ve said. The truth, i really dont know who to blame on the present situation everyone of us is facing. In my country there are more and more people renting rooms each year, more and more graduates adding to jobless graduates of the past years. Maybe government is to be blamed? Maybe us? 

I would say mistakes of previous generations is largely to blame. The government keeps creating bigger and bigger deficits, of which our generation will have to deal with someday. Not only is it harder for people of younger generations to live comfortably, but dealing with that deficit will also be a huge challenge someday. We need to take steps now to stabilize the US economy or our national debt could someday be our downfall.

Part of this does start with our generation. We need to take part in voting for leaders or even become those leaders ourselves. If we don't, we are placing our futures in the hands of those who may not even be around for it, and therefore has less of an interest in protecting it.

I wouldn't be so quick to say "almost everywhere in the World". China and India aren't in that bunch and just the two of them make up a third of the World.
Not to mention Africa.

China and India weren't really in many wars recently, but in a way they did pay their dues. They didn't get loans as western countries did, that is why they are not in debts as western countries are.

Who is to blame? That is a very philosophical question. You could say the government, for printing money to bail out banks.
You could say people for allowing it. Or you could just say greed, which got people in these debts.

So it was always. Generations in the gap of 25-30 years do not understand each other. Eventually the world is developing and the millennium generation will have more opportunities than previous generations

I think every generation seems to think the new generation is more screwed up than the previous. Which is not the case they are all essentially the same, screwed up just in different ways. Until humanity can heal itself we will be repeating the same issues over and over.

The latest generations are screwed in the West only, and they are basically screwed in their mind, lobotomized by media and trends. But as of opportunities, hey, they have cryptocurrencies. They have internet. If they are smart and sane they can get independent and achieve unthinkable goals. If they are smart and sane.

The whole 'hating on the new generation' thing has been going on since at least the days of ancient Greece. Like literally have people complaining about the same things in ancient texts and such just as they do now. It seems to be a pretty common fixture of human culture.

I don't know which part of the world are you talking about OP, but I've never had such problems. Never were in debt, never had a mortgage, was living without parents since I was 18. Working till we are 75 is nothing new if you are in business or self-employed. It's normal for smart people to keep working until they are physically unable to do so, but even then you still can make money on your computer. The generation has changed, but not for the worse.

Living with our parents as long as you are still single is never an issue in the country I was raised. As long as you learn to respect your elders, care for them and help them and do your part in the family, then you are okay in my opinion.

Well yeah i agree to that. Being responsible isn't only for those living alone. Many of us still live with our parents basically because we don't want them to grow old alone. It's not like we'll be living off their retirement pensions. Of course being responsible means you can provide for your own and your family. You can do that while taking care of your parents

I honestly think that there are so many broken relationships nowadays because people have higher standards for what they want out of relationships. Sure, our great-grandparents all stayed married 'till death did them part - but how many of those relationships were happy or even healthy?People have high standards, but they lack the skills to build those high quality relationships. We have very few examples of healthy intimate relationships. Our parents, by and large, are great examples of what we don't want out of our own relationships. Hollywood shows an ideal that is unattainable and frankly, creepy. So we find ourselves in a context where we know what we don't want, or we think we want something that is essentially unhealthy. The "rules" that 'everyone knows' have broken down - and rightly so. But that means we are all figuring out what we want and how to get it as we go along. For this approach to work the people involved need to be very mature, to know themselves well, to be able to admit mistakes, and to be able to communicate. No assumptions, no games. very few people can manage that. And that is why people are in and out of relationship sagas all round.

That’s the same in my country but sometimes I think it’s not really a good idea because it makes the children overly dependent on their parents and because of this it’s hard for them to be self dependent sometimes in their lives.

We don't blame this on anyone or anything. It would be better if we work together as a community instead of doing stuff on your own without thinking about others because it will leave a ripple effect on everyone. If you only care about yourself, you'll make it difficult for the next person to cope. Adjustments need to be made, and of course, we need to differentiate our wants from our needs. I guess that's why we tend to be in debt. We want a lot of things, and we can't wait to have it, which leads us to liability.

I don't think it's all so simple as you imagine. Maybe people have pointed out that you seem to have a very americentric view. Many countries have very different situations to the one you described. Overall, I think we are living a lot better than even the previous generation. Advancements in technology are changing the world more quickly than ever. The average life expectancy is increasing almost constantly. If you are having trouble buying real estate or getting a job, maybe you should move. Many places have huge bubbles in real estate prices. For the price you could pay in one place, you may pay 10 times less in another place for the same quality home. You also have to keep in mind that one of the reason there are less jobs is because technology is replacing humans in many jobs.