The Top 5 Reasons Why Millennials Will Save Us All

2. Forged in the Great Recession

Remember when everyone was going to create a million-dollar website and retire to the beach at 50? Well, Millennials don’t. That’s just not their reality. Since the Great Recession of the aughts and teens, it’s been a cold hard fact that people in their 20s who used to venture out on their own are now living with their parents at record levels.  This isn’t necessarily a condition of a coddled generation. The economy sucks today, compared to 20 years ago. I remember my great-grandparents (born in 1911) using Ziplock bags for everything after a large family get together. They wasted not a single crumb. Because they raised my grandparents during the Great Depression in the 1930s, it came natural to them to follow Benjamin Franklin’s wise words to “waste not, want not.” Millennials have already known hard times, and it will prepare them even more for challenges they’ll face when they are actually running things.