If he fell on hard times, serious congratulations to your parents for stepping up and helping out. If he never grew up and became responsible for himself, then shame on him and those who enabled him.
It was the latter. He dropped out of school really young. Went years without his GED, until our grandmother decided enough was enough and showed up at our door every morning and MADE him do to GED class. After that, he found work doing sheet metal, had a kid and decided to get married, lost the job for failing a drug test, and subsequently got left alone in the trailer park with his daughter a year later (wife was no class act, either...meth head). Now he's back home...has been for five years. Jobless and penniless. They can't kick him out because my niece deserves a home, and he just refuses to step up. Still manages to smoke about two ounces a day, though. IDK where he gets the money from.
Of course they did all of those bad things. You are romanticizing past generations, but all the things you describe above have been going on since the dawn of humanity. Millennials actually show more financial responsibility than boomers and gen xers do. They have better debt to income ratios, save a larger percentage of their income, and file the fewest bankruptcies. They will screw everything up when they are older, but they are no different than the forebearers. They just put more stuff on twitter.
LOL...that's pretty much right. He's your classic middle-class suburbian white boy who wants to be a hood rat. He even raps, paying for a studio and laying down mad beats and sick rhymes or whatever the hell you call it. Eminem, he ain't. Hell, Eminem ain't even Eminem.
if he is rapping, let him be great. lol but i know you have to be pissed, if that was my brother, id be in his shit every week, we would fight a couple of times a month at least.
I've been asked by my Dad to leave him alone. They think he's depressed and borderline self-destructive. I have to respect him (my Dad, that is).
More millennials are still living with mom and dad into their 30's, too. Easy to save when you pay no rent or food or utilities. They also have short track records making it impossible to compare with boomers and their 50-year experiences.
