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The Lost Generation essay
I can only speak to what Iāve seen. Among millennials Iāve never seen anyone exceptional passed over ever. Exceptional people are exceptional. But in the 2010ās I saw lots of well qualified millennial males disqualified from consideration for promotional or mid career opportunities strictly on the basis of maleness.
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The Lost Generation essay
Iām not sure who you are responding to here.
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The Lost Generation essay
Dude, whatever the number is- normalize for the zip code where they lived in high school and see what youāre left with.
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The Lost Generation essay
For somebody under 45? Nah. If you take away the ~5% with money and family connections and they are just as fucked as everyone else. Itās nice not to get shot, tho. Thatās not nothing.
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The Lost Generation essay
Honestly, I think itās about the same. To achieve the basics of āThe American Dreamā in this world requires three or more of the following: - brains - looks - family connections and money - good health - hard work White men, out of the box, have one really big advantage: if they interact with police they almost certainly wonāt die. Thatās a very big deal and I donāt want to minimize it. But otherwise, the vast majority of white men under 45 are just as fucked as everyone else and the vast majority of them will struggle all their lives and not amount to shit.
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The Lost Generation essay
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I only saw what happened in global tech companies, and a TV writers room has no relationship to college degrees, but I agree with you there. .- The Lost Generation essay
Ok, but taken at face value what do you think? Look there is a lot about this essay I find very silly. But the reason why it resonated with me was because it aligns with my first hand experience and direct visibility to what was happening, which is what 956 saw as well and describes above. If I was a millennial male who was denied opportunities exclusively on the basis of my race and/or gender I would be pretty bitter and pretty cynical also, and I have to think it drove a few people straight into the arms of the American right wing or whoever wanted to pursue that grievance.- The Lost Generation essay
Yeah, that seems like a pretty significant and really bad impact.- The Lost Generation essay
That would be the "who gives a fuck?" portion of the essay.- The Lost Generation essay
But, again, that's the point - one slice of one group was discriminated against and the big winners weren't (by and large) less privileged. So we wind up getting a more gender diverse mix of rich kids moving up in the world. Or maybe richer kids. Was it worth it?- The Lost Generation essay
I don't speak for all of corporate America but you should read what 956 wrote about his experience, because that was in line with what I saw in global corporations and Big Tech over the course of about a decade. In other words, I can't honestly say that "the best candidate we can get" was a huge part of the equation when it came to early-mid career promotion, hiring and recruitment. And he's especially dead-on about gay guys not counting.- The Lost Generation essay
But, that's not his core complaint. His core complaint is that millenial males, particularly the white ones were individually denied opportunity while the power structure stayed the same. Which is really hard to argue with. Gen X is not millenials. Both of you guys should read and not skim - the essay is not about Gen X or Gen Z - it's about what happened to millenial males over the course of a very specific decade. And I would also say to both of you - you're lawyers and in one of the most gatekept professions there is, and one which exercises more aggressive cultural hygiene and self-protection than any other, with the possible exception of police. In other words, you're part of the power structure. Of course things are mainly the same.- The Lost Generation essay
put another way, you didn't read the essay- The Lost Generation essay
And that's exactly the reaction I would expect from someone who doesn't read the essay- Trumpās America
Lolololol- The Lost Generation essay
Yeah I donāt think itās about DEI, which has become sort of an HR catch-all term. I think the basic thesis is that individual *millennial* white males (again, not GenX, not Boomers) were at a disadvantage without any real population level benefit to disenfranchised or marginalized people or change to the power structure. Thatās hard to disagree with from where I sit, and I can think of some pretty egregious examples. The funny thing is that at least based on what I saw during the period, it was a lot like affirmative action at elite universities. At the individual level the people who benefited most were already quite privileged: usually affluent, well connected top university grads who were themselves the children of top university graduates. Indeed, I think heās writing what he knows about. Plus media loves to talk about itself.- Texas -- a failed state
It has a thread now, this isnāt the right place for it- The Lost Generation essay
Iāve hesitated to post this, but if people want to engage the topic honestly that would be great. This Jacob Savage essay has gone viral this week and is having a major impact, particularly in right wing and libertarian online spaces. I would encourage those who want to comment here to read the essay before posting. The author suggests that efforts to diversify, while well intentioned had the effect of systematically excluding millennial men, and especially white millennial men from hiring and promotional opportunities in high status or culturally elite professional fields from 2014 through recent times. In other words, that Gen X and Boomer men (almost universally white) got to keep their spots at the top, but millennial white men got frozen out. Predictably, this essay has been latched onto by online progressives and online MAGA to signal their respective audiences. For progressives, this means ridiculing the idea that white male privilege took a holiday (which is not what the essay says). For MAGA, this means banging the drum of racial grievance. Neither are responsive to the point, which rang true to me. I canāt speak for media, journalism or academia first hand, although it seems observationally true when I look at the compositions of staff. But I can say that it aligns with my experience and involvement in hiring and promotional decisions at global corporations and in tech beginning around 2008. I donāt think we thought about the generational component of what we were doing at the time, but looking back itās clear to me that it had a significant impact, mostly without mitigating benefit.- Texas -- a failed state
Iāve been thinking about starting a thread to discuss that Jacob Savage essay because of its vitality and the impact itās having (or not) on our politics, but I havenāt because I suspect it will just be progressives who havenāt read it reciting the catechisms which is exactly what MAGA is doing with it. But, having read it, itās not about how the mediocre Mikeās didnāt get a fair shake, which is what progressives and MAGA are flogging to make their usual points. Itās about a very specific window in time and how that impacted a very specific demographic cohort in a very real way.- The Trump Economy
Maybe he needs to yell some more- Maga Xmas ideas?
Man I like these shirts- 25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
Yep, agreed. That said, I get it now. I wasnāt kidding that he honestly reminds me of Julius Irving- a prototypical ABA SF. Heās a rangy, ferocious attacker and on-ball defender* who performs best in motion, who doesnāt shoot particularly well but winds up with relatively high career FG% because of what he can do attacking the basket. Two observations: 1) Asking Flagg to shoot threes is a waste of his talent and a wasted shot. Maybe he can develop but why bother when he can do his best work elsewhere? 2) We need to enjoy him while he lasts and they need to build around him soon. His style of play is going to limit his shelf life a bit and heās likely going to peak early. * Flagg gets credit but Dr J was underrated defensively despite making a couple of all NBA defense lists and blocking 2 shots a game- 25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
Yep, but this 18 year old is doing Dr J shit:- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
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