Millennials SUCK. Right?

Hello my lovely readers, Happy Thanksgiving! Week one of my end-of-year-resolution has come and gone with pretty good success considering I was traveling half the week. I still am traveling as a matter of fact but I said I’d post every week and I meant it!

Have you heard of the wage gap? Supposedly women earn $0.75 to a man’s $1.00. I wouldn’t know I haven’t researched it. I have however researched an even more important wage gap that I find spoken about quite a bit less; the problem with minimum wage.

So many Americans are working full-time for a minimum wage and yet they aren’t able to get by. You hear older people say ‘back in my day I earned a living on $2.50 an hour’ and that’s true, the minimum wage was $2.30 an hour and was acceptable working pay for somebody working in the 1970s. But adjusting for inflation they were being paid the equivalent of $9.47 an hour, $2.17 more than minimum wage today. Remember when you could buy a bar of chocolate for ten cents? That’s a dollar plus tax today which is the product of inflation. A Dollar is worth a lot less in today’s economy than it was when my grandpa was a kid.

So why are millennials that are asking for a decent wage getting painted as lazy and entitled? Why is

it that somebody with a bachelor’s degree can be told they’re just not trying hard enough when they can’t seem to get a better job?

This is a video interviewing a woman who; was working for yelp; found both her and her coworkers were struggling financially; sent a professional letter to her CEO; and promptly got fired. She then posted a blog about her experience which caused an absolute uproar. Another woman wrote a scathing blog about her which was then quoted by Ben Sasse in his book The Vanishing American Adult. You tell me if they were correct in thinking that Millennials are entitled pricks.

Whew, I did it! First blog of the end of the year. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next week!

TTFN! That’s ta ta for now!