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none of this has anything to do with the girl in the article though. She wants to live the high end big city lifestyle while only being qualified for a minimum wage job. $12 per hour? Get a second job, live in the East Bay, move back home and try to get more qualifications, etc. Don't live in a damn $1200 room and buy expensive food and drinks It took me 20 seconds to find rooms $400-500 cheaper on Craigslist, and this girl is complaining about not being able to eat because of high rent.Another thing that is wrong with the whole "participation trophy" meme is that the millennials who were the most likely to receive participation trophies and be placed in gifted and talented classes and have wealthy and highly involved parents and enjoyed lavish birthday parties as kids are the ones who are doing the best as adults. White, upper middle class and upper class kids had the easiest childhoods and are now those rare millennials who have good jobs and home ownership.
The working class whites, the Latinos and black millennials who were much less likely to receive participation trophies, the ones who did work during high school and college, those whose childhoods and college years were much more gritty, they are the ones with the most debt, the bleakest career prospects and the smallest chance of ever owning a home.
It is, as it always has been, about who has the most money and social capital and not who had the roughest upbringing.
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