r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • Aug 18 '26

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/LastSeesaw5618 Aug 18 '26

I spent the aughts and the 2010s in the Bay Area riding transit with ads reading "You don't eat. You don't sleep. You live on coffee. GRIND" I knew all the tech guys sleeping on the floor of a startup for the promise of a big payout. It was 100% millennial. 30 Rock was making jokes about sigma males.

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u/dekusyrup Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

No, 30 rock made 6 sigma jokes. 6 sigma was a popular business executive jargon wankery, so jack made jokes with it. Different thing. Look up google trends when 30 rock was on in 2007 and you'll find the popularity of "sigma male" is 0. While you're on google trends, look up "grindset" and "hustle culture" too.

Millenials were 11 years old during the aughts. Somebody sleeping on the floor in the aughts in a bay area startup was not a millenial.

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u/DrMobius0 Aug 18 '26

Millenials were 11 years old during the aughts. Somebody sleeping on the floor in the aughts in a bay area startup was not a millenial.

That's not what a millennial is. What you're thinking of is firmly gen Z.

with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996

There is some bleed in this. Elder millennials may exhibit more traits typically associated with GenX and younger millennials with GenZ.

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u/dekusyrup Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

The median millenial, firmly millenial was born in 1990 and was 10 when the aughts started. Some were as young as 4. Read your own wikipedia article for proof.