Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy

[leifastagsweed]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html

Entertaining and actually thought provoking read when you filter.

Quotable moment:

"So on top of the generation as a whole having the bold goal of a flowery career lawn, each individual GYPSY thinks that he or she is destined for something even better -- A shiny unicorn on top of the flowery lawn."

[Bobmuhthol]

Neither entertaining nor thought provoking.

[Jace Solo]

I liked it. Sounds like Bob is a Gypsy

[Keller]

I really don't like Lucy.

[TheEschaton]

Lucy needs to be punched in the cunt.

[Gelston]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbNcQlzV-4

[Taernath]

As someone in their 30s, I really fucking hate being included in generation Y.

[Ker_Thwap]

So basically they set up a scenario where they define happiness, define a certain person by a single aspect of their life, and apply it to a portion of a generation. Not impressed.

[leifastagsweed]

I agree that Lucy sounds like a real piece of work. I believe the article intentionally portrayed her that way in an ironic, joking fashion.

That being said, no one I've ever met particularly likes being lumped into a collective. Gen X commentary isn't much friendlier.

Just good clean fun. :)

[SHAFT]

As someone in their 30s, I really fucking hate being included in generation Y.

Yeah, most of the people I know that are my age are douchebags. I'm awesome however.

Being 30 though, are we Gen X or Gen Y? I always considered myself a Gen X'r.

[Gelston]

It isn't an exact thing. It depends on what source you use. Earliest date for Y is the 70s, some dates for it have it starting in the 80s. Some for X end in the 70s, some for X in in the 80s. It is pretty much all meaningless to me anyways, just a man invented label that means very little.

[Taernath]

Yeah, most of the people I know that are my age are douchebags. I'm awesome however.

Being 30 though, are we Gen X or Gen Y? I always considered myself a Gen X'r.

I do too. It's only recently I've heard GenY being extended into the early 80's/late 70's. Must be older GenXers not wanting us youngsters in their too cool for school club.

[Methais]

Neither entertaining nor thought provoking.

But this was, which was linked in that article:

www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/07/7-ways-to-be-insufferable-on-facebook.html


As someone in their 30s, I really fucking hate being included in generation Y.

Me too. Fortunately I never knew that I qualified to be in Generation Y, and always thought I was in Generation X.

It turns out I qualify for both.


Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom. Demographers, historians and commentators use beginning birth dates from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.


Degeneration X > Generation X > Generation Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m48UcNpmoVI

[Glitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8VNIz3h0c