re: I've come to the conclusion that Millenials are giant pussies.

I got my first cell phone when I was 17.

Born in '86.

I started using a computer on a regular basis when I was 5. frick all you johnny-come-latelys, I used DOS and Pathminder (score for anyone who knows what that wise).

None of that matters as far as crafting the millenial generation any more than radio made the 1900s generation decadent. What a silly idea. Technology has little, if any, effect on how useful or hard working a generation is. Generations grow up to maximize the productivity using the technology at hand; the agricultural revolution didn't make our ancestors more lazy than their horse-drawn plow fathers.

I don't think millenials are any different than the previous generations. They were raised with the same work ethic (by and large) that their parents and grandparents where. The average hours worked has decreased on low skill/low pay jobs (for obvious reasons) and increased for higher skilled/pay jobs. Wikipedia has a blurb about this:

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As President Truman’s 1951 message had predicted, the share of working women rose from 30 percent of the labor force in 1950 to 47 percent by 2000 – growing at a particularly rapid rate during the 1970s.[52] According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued May 2002, "In 1950, the overall participation rate of women was 34 percent ... The rate rose to 38 percent in 1960, 43 percent in 1970, 52 percent in 1980, and 58 percent in 1990 and reached 60 percent by 2000. The overall labor force participation rate of women is projected to attain its highest level in 2010, at 62 percent.”[52] The inclusion of women in the work force can be seen as symbolic of social progress as well as of increasing American productivity and hours worked.

Between 1950 and 2007 official price inflation was measured to 861 percent. President Truman, in his 1951 message to Congress, predicted correctly that his military buildup “will cause intense and mounting inflationary pressures.” Using the data provided by the United State Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erik Rauch has estimated productivity to have increased by nearly 400%.[53] According to Rauch, “if productivity means anything at all, a worker should be able to earn the same standard of living as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week.”

In the United States, the working time for upper-income professionals has increased compared to 1965, while total annual working time for low-skill, low-income workers has decreased.[54] This effect is sometimes called the "leisure gap".

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