I've been reading your "
almost all of them (except the one that said we tend to lean more libertarian ... but that's a long discussion for another time). It got me thinking about a story from The Atlantic called "The Cheapest Generation", which inspired a LOT of blowback in the comments section. The thing is, we ARE a cheap generation, not necessarily because we want to be, but because we see the giant fucking mess that the Boomers got into thinking they could have anything and everything.
I graduated from grad school last year, and am currently unemployed after my latest "contract" job was terminated. I live in a house with five other people, two of whom are in their 30s. Even if I could afford a house and a car and all those things, I don't want them. Owning a house just doesn't have the same significance to Millennials (in my opinion). It's a symbol of being tied down, of having to pay for something for the rest of your life, which we all have to do already with student loans. Unlike previous generations that either never had debt (our grandparents) or didn't discover it until they were well on their way to being settled (our parents), we've learned from an early age that we're screwed for the rest of our lives, and there's nothing much we can do about it.