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<p>The generational war is always raging, with constant articles penned <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/everything-millennials-are-killing/mariel-loveland" target="_blank">by Boomers lampooning Millennials</a>, and now a stream of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/5/22/18617686/baby-boomers-millennials-capitalism-joseph-sternberg" target="_blank">rebuttals going in the opposite direction</a>.</p><p>Obviously, judging entire groups of people based on when they were born is wildly ignorant. There are so many factors that affect how someone approaches the world (race/gender/sexuality/economics/religion/etc) more intensely than the year they were born, but it&#39;s also misguided to pretend generational differences aren&#39;t real.</p><p>One of the most glaring divisions between Millennials and Boomers is the genesis of a tech age that exposed many of us to computers from childhood on. This has affected everything from socializing patterns to the ways we think about shopping, and particularly the ways Millennials express discontent.</p><p>Growing up in an information rich age with wrecked economic prospects and constant advertising has massively shifted how Millennials approach our personal buying decisions.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>The <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" target="_blank">Tumblr user sodomymcsurvylegs</a> quickly went viral for his post astutely laying out why Millennials rarely throw fits over bad service.</h2><p> </p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Tumblr" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" height="440" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/millennialone-HEDsVw.png" width="800" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F">Tumblr</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>To start his post, he laid out how Millennials are less inclined to &quot;punish&quot; businesses through overt in person confrontation, and instead urge their social circles to not shop there.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;The reason most millennials don&#39;t make a scene when an establishment doesn&#39;t treat them right is because we function more on positive reinforcement than negative reinforcement. For Boomers, they can make a scene because they know negative reinforcement gets them what they want; they want to PUNISH these establishments or workers, but Millennial purchasing patterns are very different.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;Growing up in the computer age, we&#39;ve become masterful at filtering junk information, and that includes advertising. It doesn&#39;t matter how much a politician or restaurant or whatever memes, we&#39;ll find them funny, but we&#39;re still not going to shop there or give them our money if we dislike them. The way brands become successful with Millennials is actually just word of mouth.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Tumblr" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" height="470" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/millennialtw-Hjw1kp.png" width="800" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F">Tumblr</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;So when an establishment treats us poorly we don&#39;t make a scene, we simply never go back and don&#39;t tell our friends about it. Conversely, places that treat us well we immediately go tell our friends about.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>Because a lot of <a href="https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/millennials-earning/" target="_blank">Millennials make less money than previous generations</a> at their age or education levels, finding affordable options that also don&#39;t mistreat their workers is key.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;The simplest ways to get Millennials to support your business is to give them good economic value for what you sell (Boomers can think we&#39;re irresponsible, but we&#39;re actually quite thrifty), you have to treat us with dignity, but ALSO, you have to treat your WORKERS with dignity. Unlike Boomers who get off on laughing at someone working at McDonald&#39;s, we&#39;ve all had to work sh*tty underpaying jbs and we don&#39;t like when we go to an establishment and see workers mistreated and poorly paid, because WE&#39;VE BEEN THERE, and we don&#39;t want to contribute to that gross abuse of the working class.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>The post ended with a scathing indictment of CEOs who complain about Millennials but are unwilling to adopt the ethical business practices that Millennials value.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Tumblr" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" height="166" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/millennialfinal-PsmYlj.png" width="800" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F">Tumblr</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;These rich CEOs can complain that Millennials have &quot;no brand loyalty&quot; or that we&#39;re &quot;killing XYZ industry,&quot; but the truth is that selling to us consistently requires ethical business practices that most of these companies are unwilling to partake in.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>Unsurprisingly, the responses to the post have ranged from glowing praise to scathing criticism.</p><h2><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" target="_blank">c-bassmeow</a> completely agrees with this assessment.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Wow I have a degree in economics and studied this stuff for years and years and read up on it all the time and this still impressed me. This was such an enjoyable read and all TRUE.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>While <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" target="_blank">MrAgrijag</a> pointed out where it fails.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I think this is complete bullshit honestly. The flourishment of places like Amazon and Wish show that all of the current generations have no qualms about large corporations benefiting off the backs of laborers in awful conditions around the world as long as it isn&#39;t them.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/90gH93F" target="_blank">Vorr</a> corrected the common misuse of the term &quot;positive reinforcement&quot; in the post.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Negative reinforcement is removing something bad as a reward. Positive punishment is introducing something bad as a deterrent. Common mix-up. Positive / negative refers to introducing something or taking something away and reinforcement / punishment means to encourage / discourage.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>The discussion is still raging nearly three weeks after the post first made the rounds, which means it&#39;s ruffling a lot of feathers for better or worse.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

People are debating guy's Tumblr post about why millennials are nicer to store employees than boomers.

The generational war is always raging, with constant articles penned by Boomers lampooning Millennials, and now a stream of rebuttals going in the opposite direction.Obviously, judging entire groups of people based on when they were born is wildly ignorant. There are so many factors that affect how someone approaches the world (race/gender/sexuality/economics/religion/etc) more intensely than the year they were born, but it&#39;s also misguided to pretend generational differences aren&#39;t real.One of the most glaring divisions between Millennials and Boomers is the genesis of a tech age that exposed many of us to computers from childhood on. This has affected everything from socializing patterns to the ways we think about shopping, and particularly the ways Millennials express discontent.Growing up in an information rich age with wrecked economic prospects and constant advertising has massively shifted how Millennials approach our personal buying decisions.The Tumblr user sodomymcsurvylegs quickly went viral for his post astutely laying out why Millennials rarely throw fits over bad service.   TumblrTo start his post, he laid out how Millennials are less inclined to &quot;punish&quot; businesses through overt in person confrontation, and instead urge their social circles to not shop there. &quot;The reason most millennials don&#39;t make a scene when an establishment doesn&#39;t treat them right is because we function more on positive reinforcement than negative reinforcement. For Boomers, they can make a scene because they know negative reinforcement gets them what they want; they want to PUNISH these establishments or workers, but Millennial purchasing patterns are very different.&quot;  &quot;Growing up in the computer age, we&#39;ve become masterful at filtering junk information, and that includes advertising. It doesn&#39;t matter how much a politician or restaurant or whatever memes, we&#39;ll find them funny, but we&#39;re still not going to shop there or give them our money if we dislike them. The way brands become successful with Millennials is actually just word of mouth.&quot;    Tumblr &quot;So when an establishment treats us poorly we don&#39;t make a scene, we simply never go back and don&#39;t tell our friends about it. Conversely, places that treat us well we immediately go tell our friends about.&quot; Because a lot of Millennials make less money than previous generations at their age or education levels, finding affordable options that also don&#39;t mistreat their workers is key. &quot;The simplest ways to get Millennials to support your business is to give them good economic value for what you sell (Boomers can think we&#39;re irresponsible, but we&#39;re actually quite thrifty), you have to treat us with dignity, but ALSO, you have to treat your WORKERS with dignity. Unlike Boomers who get off on laughing at someone working at McDonald&#39;s, we&#39;ve all had to work sh*tty underpaying jbs and we don&#39;t like when we go to an establishment and see workers mistreated and poorly paid, because WE&#39;VE BEEN THERE, and we don&#39;t want to contribute to that gross abuse of the working class.&quot; The post ended with a scathing indictment of CEOs who complain about Millennials but are unwilling to adopt the ethical business practices that Millennials value.  Tumblr &quot;These rich CEOs can complain that Millennials have &quot;no brand loyalty&quot; or that we&#39;re &quot;killing XYZ industry,&quot; but the truth is that selling to us consistently requires ethical business practices that most of these companies are unwilling to partake in.&quot; Unsurprisingly, the responses to the post have ranged from glowing praise to scathing criticism.c-bassmeow completely agrees with this assessment. &quot;Wow I have a degree in economics and studied this stuff for years and years and read up on it all the time and this still impressed me. This was such an enjoyable read and all TRUE.&quot; While MrAgrijag pointed out where it fails. &quot;I think this is complete bullshit honestly. The flourishment of places like Amazon and Wish show that all of the current generations have no qualms about large corporations benefiting off the backs of laborers in awful conditions around the world as long as it isn&#39;t them.&quot; Vorr corrected the common misuse of the term &quot;positive reinforcement&quot; in the post. &quot;Negative reinforcement is removing something bad as a reward. Positive punishment is introducing something bad as a deterrent. Common mix-up. Positive / negative refers to introducing something or taking something away and reinforcement / punishment means to encourage / discourage.&quot; The discussion is still raging nearly three weeks after the post first made the rounds, which means it&#39;s ruffling a lot of feathers for better or worse.