[Soliloquy]

Originally Posted by Chaos Coordinator

While that may be true, that is a consumer-capital relationship initiated by those who were adults in the 80s and 90s, not millennials.

Yeah, I know, that's exactly what I wrote.



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Somewhere between when my mom got married in the 1960s and when I became and adult, much cheaper furniture that would not last as long became available. People had choices. Cheaper, less durable furniture won out. My MIL used to work at a furniture store that sold the more expensive furniture that lasted decades. It went out of business, not because of some capitalist plot but because the customers stopped going there and went to the likes of Ashley and all the others.

That's what I wrote. I'm 46. It happened before I became an adult and has continued and grown since then.

I clarified more than once. I never, ever wrote anything negative about millennials. I wrote that every generation has different options, choices, and challenges, and often cultural values shift. I'm not sure how much more clear I can be.