I am really super sick of all the smack talk about millennials. After reading an article about how millennials aren't active enough in the stock market, I am thinking really hard to recall when anyone taught me anything about how to engage in shareholding, and I am drawing a blank. Don't blame us for the crappy education system that thinks teaching us from pointless curricula like Springboard and Common Core that are both impossibly difficult and mind-numbingly mundane, instead of teaching us the value of the stock market, is a good idea. That was all on you all, you baby boomers and Gen X-ers. You raised us. It is on you, so here's a little letter from your progeny, summing up their frustrations on the whole thing.
Dear Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers,
Please stop mocking millennials for being inadequate or insufficient. It isn't helpful, it is shameful. We can't help what we are. You raised us to think we are all special so that we would fix all the problems that you will eventually leave us with (global warming, drought, corrupt government, a shrinking middle class - have I made my point?), and thus leaving us to believe that we were all miracle children and that success would come to us like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. We don't work hard because you failed to teach us the merits of working hard, because you spoiled us. Stop blaming us for what you did and start helping us get where you want us to be.
Sincerely,
Your Disgruntled Legacy
