Are Millennials Lazy Or Avant-Garde Social Activists

It is a well known assumption that Millennials have a relatively easy life, being born into the era of booming technological marvels while having a surplus of everything. Technology brought them closer together and makes work easier. It also makes Millennials’s way of life more different than any older generations. As Millennials are not just being considered lazy by other generations, studies also found out that they considered themselves as “greedy, self-absorbed and wasteful”. Personally, I have to admit that some of these accusations are in fact, correct.
In the article “Millennials see themselves as greedy, self-absorbed and wasteful, study finds” published on the 3 September 2015 by the Guardian, the author talked about how Millennials …show more content…
This was also mentioned in Larissa Faw’s article “Are Millennials Lazy Or Avant-Garde Social Activists?” published by Forbes back in 2012. The author talked about how the Occupied Wall street movement was a failure but was viewed as a success by Millennials “because for them, their voice was heard and to them, the protest was a journey, and not about results.” Millennials have a great amount of priority toward themselves and their aesthetic feelings instead of real world problems. Like the character Elliot Anderson from Mr. Robot once said “We focus on nothing but ourselves and cat videos, to the unrelated matter, We tweet, we like, we subscribe, we follow, we emoji and we smiley-face people who live on the other side of the world as a form of intimacy while we don’t even know them, it’s just hypocrisy! We care not about the children in Africa, the whales being killed or the neighbors who will get evicted next month, we care about how many like we get, how many subscriber and follower on Instagram we …show more content…
To this some would say that Millenials are more humble than any other generation (Or more honest in a way). They know they faults and they are willing to point them out. The Pew study suggested that 60% of the young people don’t even consider themselves as Millennials. And while Millennials are considered as one of the most self-absorbed generations, they still want to have a positive impact on the world. They protest and advocate digitally. And instead of going to real life protest and rallies, they engage their social activism in “every aspect of their lives”. The Intelligence Group from Forbes reported that “44% [Millennials] try to practice being green in their daily lives,” They also reported that two in three