What makes me think you're entitled is your complaint that "millenials might be the first generation in a long time to get the shaft by their departing parents".
Just something I read in The Wall Street Journal.
Departing parents are human beings whose journey on Earth came to an end, they're not a winning lottery ticket to be claimed by their next of kin.
Then you don't have much experience with dying people and their family members. Starving hyenas would be a more apt comparison.
I have a baby boomer friend who raised a set of three Xer's with his first wife and set of three Millenials with his second wife. Six kids later, he finally got fixed.
My baby boomer brother has a house still that he bought at the top of the market and has an underwater mortgage. If he can't sell the house, he will have no retirement money and won't be able to buy a smaller place. Since he borrowed the down payment from his wife's 401k, she has to continue working to pay off that loan. If has a short sale, walks away, stops working or drops dead, he loses everything. His kids and grand kids won't get anything.
My apartment complex renovated the laundry rooms with new machines that will only take debit or credit card. An extra dollar per load for the privilege. Although the new washers and dryers are slightly bigger than the old one. I might be able to put two loads into one dryer and save three quarters. That's still a quarter over the old pricing scheme.
As an I.T. support contractor, I get paid big bucks to clean up other people's messes. Sometimes literally. I was doing a PC refresh project at a hospital when I took on an unassigned side project to clean up a storage room filled with so much surplus PC equipment that no one had seen the floor in eight years. Took me six weeks in between regular assignments to sort through, haul out to the warehouse, and palletize for recycling all that crap. After facilities sanitized and waxed the floor, I presented an empty room to my manager and the I.T. staff.
My parents didn't kick me out of the house when I turned 18. My father had me work with him in construction for two years. I didn't move out of the house until I was 23 and halfway through college. That's when I found out that my mother put all the utilities and a credit card in my name. Turned out that they needed my financial support more than I needed theirs.
Not sure what makes you think I'm "entitled" to anything. As a GenXer I had to take care of my parents because my Baby Boomer brother was "too busy" to help and loaded up his truck with their possessions when they died, leaving me stuck with the paperwork.
A guy with his girlfriend and his boyfriend moved into the triplex next door. One day the guy came knocking on the door and accused my roommate of making sexual advances towards his boyfriend. My roommate told him he was stupid and slammed the door. Since my roommate's bedroom window was opposite to their bedroom window, the guy called the police to accuse me roommate of watching him have sex with his girlfriend. After three late night police visits, we moved out a month later. A former neighbor later told me it took two years to get that freak show out of the neighbor.
Assuming that their baby boomer parents bothered to leave anything for them. Millenials might be the first generation in a long time to get the shaft by their departing parents.
When the growing middle class in China becomes too expensive to employ for manufacturing jobs, corporations will come back to the U.S. to hire Americans at lower wages than China. That's happen now.
Called an apartment complex. If the corporate owner slapped on a coat of exterior paint, added new landscaping and jacked up the rents, it's called an luxury apartment complex. An apartment complex next door to a college university isn't that far removed from a dorm.
It got destroyed again when Godzilla came to town. With apes and terminators running all over the place, government decided to let it go. Like everything else in America.
I had a college instructor who retired from teaching mathematics at 81. Why that age? Because it was nine squared. I think he was 89 (a prime number) when he keeled over.
My father loved doing my math homework when I was a kid. He had a sixth grade education from the 1950's that taught him more mathematics than high school graduates today. Having him do my homework didn't help me do well in school. When I got into college, I had re-learn basic math all over again before I could take the introductory math courses.
How you pronounced the period between two sets of numbers depends on the context. Mathematic users typically use the word point (i.e., ten point one six). Computer users who refer to the dot notation for IP addresses will use the word dot (i.e., 172 dot 0 dot 0 dot 1). I don't think the two words are interchangeable.
As an I.T. support contractor in Silicon Valley, I get paid minimum wage — $50,000+ per year plus benefits and 20 paid days off — to fix other people's messes. Silicon Valley isn't that expensive if you're willing to live a very modest lifestyle.
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What makes me think you're entitled is your complaint that "millenials might be the first generation in a long time to get the shaft by their departing parents".
Just something I read in The Wall Street Journal.
Departing parents are human beings whose journey on Earth came to an end, they're not a winning lottery ticket to be claimed by their next of kin.
Then you don't have much experience with dying people and their family members. Starving hyenas would be a more apt comparison.
I have a baby boomer friend who raised a set of three Xer's with his first wife and set of three Millenials with his second wife. Six kids later, he finally got fixed.
My baby boomer brother has a house still that he bought at the top of the market and has an underwater mortgage. If he can't sell the house, he will have no retirement money and won't be able to buy a smaller place. Since he borrowed the down payment from his wife's 401k, she has to continue working to pay off that loan. If has a short sale, walks away, stops working or drops dead, he loses everything. His kids and grand kids won't get anything.
My apartment complex renovated the laundry rooms with new machines that will only take debit or credit card. An extra dollar per load for the privilege. Although the new washers and dryers are slightly bigger than the old one. I might be able to put two loads into one dryer and save three quarters. That's still a quarter over the old pricing scheme.
No one believes the Darth Jar-Jar rumors.
*cough* Driver 3 *cough*
Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
Critics are panning the latest James Bond movie, yet movie watchers gave it an A- grade. How do we explain this gap?
Oh look, everybody - it's the most interesting man in the world.
Most people live quite boring lives. I'm just here to provide inspiration.
That's why you're sitting at work typing on Slashdot all day, clearly.
Slashdot to exist to amuse me at work while I'm waiting for a script to complete. It's also preparation for writing my memoirs.
As an I.T. support contractor, I get paid big bucks to clean up other people's messes. Sometimes literally. I was doing a PC refresh project at a hospital when I took on an unassigned side project to clean up a storage room filled with so much surplus PC equipment that no one had seen the floor in eight years. Took me six weeks in between regular assignments to sort through, haul out to the warehouse, and palletize for recycling all that crap. After facilities sanitized and waxed the floor, I presented an empty room to my manager and the I.T. staff.
My roommate and the people next door were Mexicans. I may be a redneck, but I don't come from a white trash family.
My parents didn't kick me out of the house when I turned 18. My father had me work with him in construction for two years. I didn't move out of the house until I was 23 and halfway through college. That's when I found out that my mother put all the utilities and a credit card in my name. Turned out that they needed my financial support more than I needed theirs.
As a GenXer, I hate both Baby Boomers and Millennials..
Not sure what makes you think I'm "entitled" to anything. As a GenXer I had to take care of my parents because my Baby Boomer brother was "too busy" to help and loaded up his truck with their possessions when they died, leaving me stuck with the paperwork.
A guy with his girlfriend and his boyfriend moved into the triplex next door. One day the guy came knocking on the door and accused my roommate of making sexual advances towards his boyfriend. My roommate told him he was stupid and slammed the door. Since my roommate's bedroom window was opposite to their bedroom window, the guy called the police to accuse me roommate of watching him have sex with his girlfriend. After three late night police visits, we moved out a month later. A former neighbor later told me it took two years to get that freak show out of the neighbor.
Assuming that their baby boomer parents bothered to leave anything for them. Millenials might be the first generation in a long time to get the shaft by their departing parents.
When the growing middle class in China becomes too expensive to employ for manufacturing jobs, corporations will come back to the U.S. to hire Americans at lower wages than China. That's happen now.
Called an apartment complex. If the corporate owner slapped on a coat of exterior paint, added new landscaping and jacked up the rents, it's called an luxury apartment complex. An apartment complex next door to a college university isn't that far removed from a dorm.
It got destroyed again when Godzilla came to town. With apes and terminators running all over the place, government decided to let it go. Like everything else in America.
As my late father used to say, the Golden Gate Bridge could never be built today.
I had a college instructor who retired from teaching mathematics at 81. Why that age? Because it was nine squared. I think he was 89 (a prime number) when he keeled over.
My father loved doing my math homework when I was a kid. He had a sixth grade education from the 1950's that taught him more mathematics than high school graduates today. Having him do my homework didn't help me do well in school. When I got into college, I had re-learn basic math all over again before I could take the introductory math courses.
How you pronounced the period between two sets of numbers depends on the context. Mathematic users typically use the word point (i.e., ten point one six). Computer users who refer to the dot notation for IP addresses will use the word dot (i.e., 172 dot 0 dot 0 dot 1). I don't think the two words are interchangeable.
Roasted duck and mac-n-cheese on Fridays.
As an I.T. support contractor in Silicon Valley, I get paid minimum wage — $50,000+ per year plus benefits and 20 paid days off — to fix other people's messes. Silicon Valley isn't that expensive if you're willing to live a very modest lifestyle.