The long dispute between Baby Boomers and Millennials has reached a new level of ridiculous intensity and, frankly it’s getting old.
The Boomers, born between 1945-64, no doubt know exactly what I’m talking about because they now realize that youth is wasted on the young and that the young waste youth. Needless to say, this makes them a little bitter. Millennials, born between the early 1980s and 2000s, likely have no idea what I’m talking about because they let their smartphones do their thinking. There’s also Generation X, who are just happy their elders have stopped telling them their lives will never amount to anything at all.
We have better things to do than argue over who had it harder; so with that in mind, let us reconcile our differences like adults and move forward.  
There is a grain of truth in every stereotype, but the people of Generation Y will not inevitably destroy the Earth. However, people in their late teens and mid-twenties would discover an unfathomable amount of freedom if they unplugged themselves from the Internet for a day.  But to say that this demographic is the only one addicted to its cellphone would be unfair. Older folks everywhere are discovering the ever-growing world of apps and social media and in many instances develop the same addiction seen in younger people.
Furthermore, I take issue with several adjectives used to describe our demographic, like lazy, flaky, narcissistic, juvenile and even stupid. But worst of all is that Gen. Y is said to feel entitled. What exactly is there to be entitled to? We would like to have jobs and to be productive members of society; a thousand apologies if this is too much to ask for. It seems we’re certainly entitled to a most sinister form of slavery known as the internship, where our education, for which we shouldered tens of thousands of dollars in debt, is written off entirely by employers.  
In the old days, earning a degree and finding work was much simpler. These days, McDonald’s is hiring engineers for cashier positions who are working off $60,000 in student loan debt. Gen. Y isn’t lazy or incompetent; the game of life has just become some twisted, insane shadow of what it was 40 years ago.
Rather than blame Millennials for the mess they have found themselves in, why not help them out? Do not give handouts; charity is not what is needed. Instead, help fix the problems that not only plague them, but future generations as well: education, unfair debt as a result of that education and stifling preconceptions that label them as useless, lazy, tech-addled zombies.
But this is a two-way street and if Gen. Y wants any hope of climbing out of this hole patience and persistence are needed. We all want the same things and our problems are not wholly different; a solution can be found if only we can jump the generation gap.