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What is THEE WORST generation the world has ever seen?

Poll - Total Votes: 11

Baby Boomers (Greedy wasters)

Gen Xers (pessimistic and lazy)

Millennials (clueless, lacking perspective)

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Millenials.
My reasoning for this is the fact that they have grown up in the time of 'the individual is king'.
Not [i]entirely[/i] their fault, it has to be said !

In terms of blame, you have to look at the leaps in technology that have taken us away from knowing our neighbours and family friends that have been with us for maybe generations ! And given us such 'joys' as the mobile phone. A genius device if you're mum and stuck when the car breaks down. But endless lines of 'kids' glued to a screen rather than 'interacting' with the world around them aint good !
This is the generation that has no idea about community; joint struggle; local history; even FAMILY history. Why ? Because they're just not interested !
Fewer Millenials are entrepreneurial when compared Generation-'X'ers.
Fewer Millenials are politically aware. Oh they have opinions, but no understanding of political ideology.
More Millenials than any previous generation go to college. Which in theory is good for the forthcoming generation, right ? Well....no ! It seems Millenial students shied away from traditional core subjects in favour of things like Sports Science and media studies !
And because of a lack of those specific jobs, millenials tend to live at home far longer than any previous generation !

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@CoxswainOtter Both Babyboomers and, to some extent, Generation X-ers, had the weight of expectation upon them.
In other words, it was expected that they would leave school and get jobs. Not necessarily 'careers'.
Another expectation was that they were expected to get married and have children.
Millenials seem unlikely to want to do either if you believe half the surveys done about them !

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@CoxswainOtter Well you can argue the merits of piss poor planning from government over the last forty years, for the future and the decrease in industry due to automation or loss altogether due to technology, or the fact that countries in the East can do what we do at half the cost !

That's certainly down to the babyboomers generation.
They inherited a free world after the second world war and just refused to invest in the future !

Even folk of my generation have seen the rise of tech industries all start from the East ! While assembly/packing jobs have been largely automated.
And like it or not, nobody wants to buy British or American anymore because they can get it from Taiwan so much cheaper than even Japan !

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@CoxswainOtter Back in the 1980's Margaret Thatcher slashed laws and employment rights so that unions died as a result (largely) due to the miner's strike which almost shutdown the country.
Ever since industry has died in the UK at least and had been replaced with endless bloody call centres.