What do you think are the major pros/cons of each current generation?

[David Horn]

(06-05-2022, 08:59 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: imo, boomers get a lot of blame for things that millennials need to blame themselves for. Be that as it may, there is one area in which boomers as a whole were an absolute fucking disgrace: education
1) Teaching us to view the stable, loving nuclear households they grew up in with contempt 
2) Not only did they fail to prepare us for the real world, they flippantly made excuses about how that wasn't their job in the first place 
3) Utter nonsense rhetoric like "follow your passion", "if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life" 
4) Virtually no education on budgeting, credit, planning for living arrangements after college. as with their views on nuclear families, the very concept of focusing on money was held in contempt by most of them. 
5) Lots of talk about "compassion", very little gut level understanding of what it is or how to practice it. Correspondingly, millennials picked up on the bleeding heart sing-around-the-campfire side of compassion, but they learned little of the more quiet compassion and decency that help people in your community with whom you have face to face interactions get along. 
6) Irresponsibly pushing expensive degree programs on confused late teens who where never educated about other options like military, trades or just something as simple as...spending a year or two in the workforce before you make such an important decision
7) Worse yet, many of those degrees would have obviously failed to produce jobs to anyone 30+ with even a modicum of ability to research
8) Anyone remember job training programs? ...yeah, not many of those around these days. 
9) An attitude about relationships which was similar to point 3: utterly selfish, irresponsible and all centered around "passion", as if relationships were meant as nothing more than an amorous dalliance, rather than a family structure necessary to provide healthy environments for children and ensure that society had more stable, well-adjusted citizens. 

Rebuttal:

1. Just because the alternative you lived didn't meet your needs does not mean that bland and vacuous would either.  Most nuclear families were artificially ideal.
   
2. Not one I heard or espoused.
   
3. Not nonsense at all.  Unfortunately, the PTB have made it nearly impossible, but hitching your life to a grindstone job you hate is not a solution either.
   
4. This ones legitimate, but we didn't get any either, and were flailing away most of time ourselves.
   
5. If  your gripe is all talke and no action, i can't disagree.  Most of us lack whatever it takes to perform well in that, or any other challenging capacity.
   
6. OK, I tried that personally.  I finally got to college at 41.  I don't advocate that as a model.
   
7. So, pushing someone with no technical savvy into engineering or any of the other STEM fields is a good idea in your opinion?  And btw, trades onlyu recently became a viable avenue.  Apprenticeships disappeared for decades.
   
8. Employers ysed to train their own workers.  Now they expect the wowrkers to do that for them.  Maybe that will change now that employers no longer have the whip hand.
   
9. OK, great.  Try an arranged marriage if you find that wise.