Simon Sinek and Hasan Piker are two guys in two separate YouTube videos with opposing views on the Millennial generation. Sinek’s video preceded Piker’s and the topic was on how “Millennials are not compatible for the corporate workplace because of bad parenting, social media, participation medals, and a false sense of self-image”. Piker responded with exigence by arguing that “Sinek is totally ignoring all the problems that Millennials face in the workplace”. Piker’s argument has the upper hand against Simon’s argument by explaining how Simon generalizes all Millennials of being horrible in the workplace. In Sinek’s rant, he perpetually degrades all Millennials by saying that “every single one of them has an issue rendering them unsuitable
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Piker for example states that “zero percent of Sinek’s claims are true”. When Sinek did in fact mention a research article from 2012 on how social media effects dopamine, and he cited it. Maybe Piker was too agitated to not let that one misstatement slip out in his counter argument. Still, Sinek had so many unsourced claims that Piker’s mishap may have just been an over exaggeration meant to point out the obvious flaws in Sinek’s rant. Right after Piker speaks about Sinek mentioning how social media releases dopamine and that he “advocates putting an age restriction on social media”, Piker says “Okay, advocating for age restrictions on social media is not only impractical and counterproductive, but also ridiculous when compared to alcohol, cigarettes or gambling, because while all those things are addictive I will admit that, they also have immediate consequences on your health or finances. But Simon’s not done. Then he connects social media to the lack of meaningful relationships, because Millennials are incapable of forming them. Where is Simon getting this information? I do not know. Maybe it’s in this Huffington Post article I found with 185 likes, or maybe it’s the fact that Simon is too old and can’t figure out that because I have 23,000 Instagram followers that don’t mean I automatically believe I have 23,000 friends. Look we all know Facebook RSVPs are a joke, but that isn’t because the concept of social interactions as we know it are crumbling right before our eyes, but because that’s just a new layer of social interaction that we’re slowly building etiquette around.” Piker shows how Sinek’s opinion to “add an age restriction to social media” is “counterproductive” (Piker) to creating new forms of social interactions on new
Piker for example states that “zero percent of Sinek’s claims are true”. When Sinek did in fact mention a research article from 2012 on how social media effects dopamine, and he cited it. Maybe Piker was too agitated to not let that one misstatement slip out in his counter argument. Still, Sinek had so many unsourced claims that Piker’s mishap may have just been an over exaggeration meant to point out the obvious flaws in Sinek’s rant. Right after Piker speaks about Sinek mentioning how social media releases dopamine and that he “advocates putting an age restriction on social media”, Piker says “Okay, advocating for age restrictions on social media is not only impractical and counterproductive, but also ridiculous when compared to alcohol, cigarettes or gambling, because while all those things are addictive I will admit that, they also have immediate consequences on your health or finances. But Simon’s not done. Then he connects social media to the lack of meaningful relationships, because Millennials are incapable of forming them. Where is Simon getting this information? I do not know. Maybe it’s in this Huffington Post article I found with 185 likes, or maybe it’s the fact that Simon is too old and can’t figure out that because I have 23,000 Instagram followers that don’t mean I automatically believe I have 23,000 friends. Look we all know Facebook RSVPs are a joke, but that isn’t because the concept of social interactions as we know it are crumbling right before our eyes, but because that’s just a new layer of social interaction that we’re slowly building etiquette around.” Piker shows how Sinek’s opinion to “add an age restriction to social media” is “counterproductive” (Piker) to creating new forms of social interactions on new