The millennial generation or Generation Y

I think as many Millenials are being handed the world we stop and wonder how we can change the world or at least leave our marks in history.

"Handed the world we stop"?

(*beat)

You need to improve your punctuation.

I don't know really. I'd like to change the world by eliminating corruption, fixing the environment, inventing new technology. What do you think?

I fail to understand the OP. A little help please?

~shrug~

We're being given a world in disrepair and we'll be expected to make it better so all the elderly have a nice place to live in their retirement years.

No different than any other generation. We don't run the world so that we leave something better for our children, we run it so it's best for those already in power. Eventually, it won't be sustainable anymore...

The new generation is taking over. How will we fix the morass?

edited 17th Sep '11 12:31:38 PM by USAF713

He's saying that, as many Millenials start to grow up, a lot tend to ask themselves how they can have an impact on the world and change it for the better. A statement I fully agree with, except that in practice, that means changing it so it's better for yourself. Not that there's anything wrong with that; that's just how people operate.

edited 17th Sep '11 12:33:14 PM by tropetown

Joyflower has a distinct lack of punctuation. Anyway, I fail to see what topic whe is raising because it sounds like the conclusion to a middle school essay.

Is the new generation really taking over? At least over here, it seems that the positions of any relevance are all still occupied by 50-60 year olds...

Not that I really mind that, it just means that the average quality of life in old age increased, but I would not say that the "millennial generation" is anywhere close to the power right now.

This said, I suppose that will happen what happened with each other generation — different people will pursue different objectives, some of which will be laudable, some well-intentioned but disastrous, and some just plain reprehensible. And some people, probably the most part, will not do much of anything at all.

Taking over in the sense of "we can now generally vote."

Does not "generation Y" mean "those who were born in the 80s, or later"?

We have been able to vote for a while now.

I dunno, I thought the "millennial generation" was mine, those born in the '90s...

Pretty sure it's mid 80s to the 90s, but I could be wrong.

Millennial generation is everyone who came of age during the 2000-10 period more or less. You could probably expand the time frame.

Generation Y consists of those born from 1980 to 1998, for those who'd like clarification.

So then, what are people born after 2000 called? Just curious.

Children.

Generation Z?

Brats.

The term is Generation Z (after Y, of course), Generation I (for Internet), or The Net Generation (duh).

But us? We're left with a choking planet, tens of thousands of pounds of debt, thanks to heavy student burdens, crumbling infrastructure, a world that doesn't know how to manage its own money, and a lot of old people to look after.

The 2020s are going to suck.

The 2020's are going to suck?? The rest of the 2010's isn't going to be a pinic you know.

/old fart mode.

For the majority of the Gen Ys, the rest of the 2010s will be spent trying to make sense of what will occur in the 2020s.

Damn ye, student debt.

IHG, What about us older members of Generation Y? You know, the ones who are adults now?

I said majority.

Well, for the entirety of Gen Y, we're royally screwed over.

Unless some economic miracle occurs by the end of the decade.

It'll be a miracle if there's anything left of the 'economy' by then.

Could be worse.

You could have been born in Germany, France, or Britain in the late 1890s-early 1900s...