Chronotope’s Twitter Archive—№ 85,907

"Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo." highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
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"The touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. "
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Damn
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"Where previous generations were able to amass years of solid experience and income in the old economy, many of us will spend our entire working lives intermittently employed in the new one."
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“Millennials feel like they can lose everything at any time [...] And, increasingly, they can.”
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"'I don’t understand why it’s so hard to do something with your life,' he tells me. The answer is brutally simple. In an economy where wages are precarious & the safety net has been hacked into ribbons, one piece of bad luck can easily become a years-long struggle..."
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"No state provides cash benefits that add up to the poverty line."
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"Forty-one percent of working millennials aren’t even eligible for retirement plans through their companies."
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"'All of us are one life event away from losing everything'"
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"26- to 34-year-olds, has the highest uninsured rate in the country and millennials—alarmingly—have more collective medical debt than the boomers."
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"Every extra dollar of income earned by a middle-class white family generates $5.19 in new wealth. For black families, it’s 69 cents." highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
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"The biggest problem we face is not financial illiteracy. It is compound interest. "In the coming decades, the returns on 401(k) plans are expected to fall by half."
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"In 1950, there were 17 American workers to support each retiree. When millennials retire, there will be just two."
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"My father’s first house cost him 20 months of his salary. My first house will cost more than 10 years of mine."
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"In 2016, the Census Bureau reported that young people were less likely to have lived at a different address a year earlier than at any time since 1963."
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I am really loving the visuals
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"Everything Matters"
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"Any attempt to recreate the economic conditions the boomers had is just sending lifeboats to a whirlpool."
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"For decades, politicians have been terrified of making the slightest twitch that might upset homeowners. But with renters now outnumbering owners in nine of America’s 11 largest cities, we have the potential to be a powerful political constituency."
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"Boomers, it's up to you: Do you want your children to have decent jobs and places to live and a non-Dickensian old age? Or do you want lower taxes and more parking?"
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"Then there’s our responsibility. We’re used to feeling helpless because for most of our lives we’ve been subject to huge forces beyond our control. But pretty soon, we’ll actually be in charge."
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That graphic at the end... :(
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What amazing work, well done to that whole team.
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You should totally read the whole thing at highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
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