CHAPTER 4

Millennial Vices

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

—Abraham Lincoln

 

Boomers and Gen Xers love to wax self-righteous about supposed millennial vices, code for these millennials have watered down our standards and everything’s going to hell because of it, and they see the world a different way from us, their parents and older siblings. Some millennials have even disowned themselves publicly from the rest of us lost souls.

We’ve covered quite a few of the vices that are really just false stereotypes of millennials and inaccurate as to our supposed differences from older generations at the same stage in life, earlier, in Chapter 1.

But surely, we are different from the other generations, and ...

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