What problems will Millennials leave to their children?

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The discussion revolves around the potential problems that Millennials may leave for their children, drawing comparisons to issues inherited from previous generations, particularly the Baby Boomers. Participants explore various social, environmental, and cultural challenges, as well as the emergence of new, unforeseen issues.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest that Millennials will leave behind issues such as global warming, fuel shortages, and social security insolvency, similar to the unresolved problems inherited from the Baby Boomers.
  • One participant mentions the concept of increased entropy as a potential problem.
  • There is a concern about the influence of media and culture on children, with a participant expressing that glorifying violence in shows may lead to negative behaviors in future generations.
  • Another participant notes that while some problems are trans-generational, new issues may arise that are not yet recognized.
  • Global warming is highlighted as a relatively recent addition to the list of significant problems, with its recognition evolving over the past few decades.

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Participants express a mix of agreement and disagreement regarding the specific problems Millennials may leave behind. While some common themes emerge, there is no consensus on the exact nature or severity of these issues.

Contextual Notes

Participants acknowledge the complexity of generational issues and the potential for new problems to develop, but do not resolve the specifics of these challenges or their implications.

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Each generation left behind their own mess.

The Silent Generation left behind a legacy of racism, bigotry and unflinching suburban values.
The Baby Boomers left behind lots of greed, debt, a housing crisis and education bubble for us.

What will we leave to our kids, any guesses?

Potential issues: global warming, fuel/oil shortages, social security insolvency, and we're probably going to be Nazis to our kids on cell phones and video games after we see what they've done to our brains.
 
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What problems will Millennials leave to their children?

Probably the same problems inherited from the baby boomer generation - yet unresolved.
 
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Astronuc said:
What problems will Millennials leave to their children?

Probably the same problems inherited from the baby boomer generation - yet unresolved.

I think we do generate new ones, we are not yet aware of them.
 
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Increased entropy.
 
Borek said:
I think we do generate new ones, we are not yet aware of them.
I have a friend living in Alaska, and she shared the following article two days ago:

http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/anchorage-school-suspends-1stgraders-for-plotting-to-poison-classmate/38751326

Given that I didn't start plotting the demise of my fellow schoolmates until I was in high school, I found this a bit incomprehensible.

jduster said:
What will we leave to our kids, any guesses?

As I mentioned the other day, in another thread, I was fired from my position about 4 years ago, and got to sit with my new "millennial" boss for a year.
Somewhere in those 365 days, he mentioned that he really like the TV show "Dexter".
I had never seen the show, so I googled it.
It stuck me as a strange premise.

I would suggest, that millennials not glorify murder, as a solution. As your children will pick up on that, and plot to kill people, for stealing their crayons.
 
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Borek said:
I think we do generate new ones, we are not yet aware of them.
While that is generally true, the really big problems Astronuc alluded to and the OP listed tend to be trans-generational and a problem is added or subtracted from that list only once every few decades.

Global warming was only added to the list perhaps 20 years ago (it would probably be the youngest item), but first garnered attention about 50 years ago.

If anything, we recently, at least temporarily removed one item from the list that has been there since the baby boomers were infants: oil depletion.
 

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