A lot of people who hate millennials are in fact, millennials themselves. They just do not know what the actual age range is nor that they fall into that category. That should be enough to indicate a general problem.

At 31, I myself am a millennial. If people want to call me lazy, fine. I probably make more money than them anyway so whatever. I worked hard to get from literal rock bottom to where I am today. The real problem are the labels and generalizations themselves due to the lack of people willing to own up to their individual responsibilities.

That is completely false. We put a man on the moon in the 60's. Now NASA is a shadow of its former self. U.S. funded computer research programs gave birth to the internet, as well as many other inventions. Now it is almost impossible to get government research funding. Republicans have dialed back regulations for decades, and whenever they can't dial back regulations they massively cut the funding for said regulators. I'll post links and examples later today when I get the freetime. 

Go back to listening to your good music, Xer.

Glad I'm a Xennial instead.

Every generation thinks they're better than the previous one and wiser than the following one. It happens literally every time

This is why some experts say people born between 78-83 are somewhere between Gen X and Y as they experienced the end of a gen and start of a gen lol.

Agree with the bold though.

Certainly there are some areas where government spends less than they used to.  But, in inflation adjusted dollars, and in the very visible ways in which it touches one's life, government in the US is much, much larger than it has ever been.  In the areas of education and healthcare (which you mentioned specifically) the increase in cost directly coincides with the increase in government involvement in those sectors.  

I've spent a very large chunk of my adult life trying to shrink government, and losing most battles - especially in healthcare and education.  You can post whatever links you want, but my statement is an objective fact.  No amount of links is going to change that.  You could argue (incorrectly, IMO) that government involvement was in response to, not the cause of, the increasing costs.  But, you cannot reasonably argue that the two have not increased in tandem, or that government is more involved in those (and many other) sectors than it ever has been.  Government just is much, much bigger than it ever has been.  

Homelanders hah. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/artificial-maturity/201402/homelanders-the-next-generation

GENERATION Y (1984-2002)

1. Adventurous
2. Green friendly, but self-indulged
3. Secure; high self-esteem
4. Easy come, easy go
5. Poor at finances
6. Dependant upon parents/adults
7. Optimistic and progressive
8. Cause-oriented
9. I want it all
10. Naïve

HOMELANDERS (2003-2021)

1. Cautious and safety preoccupied
2. Green-biased; focus on conservation
3. Insecure; seeking identity
4. Calculated
5. Frugal stewards of resources
6. Self-reliant
7. Realistic and pragmatic
8. Issue-oriented
9. I seek balance; trade-offs
10. Globally savvy and aware

In many ways this is actually true though. See Flynn Effect

Internet adoption was so varied that you could have one millennial who didn't know what the internet was until they were in middle / high school, and another who hasn't know life without the internet at all. This creates a plethora of variances in life experiences for the millennial group.

As an older millennial I find myself in a strange position wherein I understand life before the internet but yet still am lost without it. I imagine this would be the same for any generation where a major technology was introduced e.g. typewriter / telephone.

But I AM better. The generation before me didn't have no iPhone.