2/Every time I see a 35-year-old say "OK Boomer" on Twitter, I just have to laugh.

Because, that's us. We Millennials are the "Boomers" now. We're the ones the meme is making fun of, not our elderly parents.
4/Well, guess what. Either next year or the year after (depending on your definition), the first Millennials will become eligible for protection under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. https://twitter.com/NewsyNick/status/1193200000525688832
5/But although Millennials are rapidly aging out of youth, many still live with their parents: https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1170008633301708802?s=20
6/And fewer Millennials own their own homes, compared to earlier generations: https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1096884365945114625
7/And fewer Millennials are married than older generations were at the same age.
9/Why are so many Millennials failing to launch?

Is it culture? Are young people simply rejecting the traditional symbols of maturity - house, marriage, kids - in favor of an extended youth? Are they just a bunch of Peter Pans?

Maybe, but I doubt it.
10/A more likely reason is economics plus education.

In the old days of unions, you could often make a decent salary right out of high school. Or at least right out of college.

Now you need to stay in school a lot longer.
11/By the time you get that postgraduate degree and get out into the workforce, you're almost at the age when earnings traditionally plateau!
12/More of your youth spent in the classroom = less time to save for a house and kids before you hit the age when your biological clock starts ticking.
13/Now on top of that, add the fact that many Millennials graduated into the Great Recession, which added a permanent economic scar to their careers.

https://www.nber.org/digest/nov06/w12159.html
14/And the housing crash put an end to the steady wealth accumulation that middle-class and working-class Americans had known for decades prior:
16/Are Millennials still living the roommates-and-Tinder lifestyle because they want to?

Seems unlikely. Seems more likely that they're living it because economically they have little other choice.

https://contexts.org/blog/sexual-attitudes-among-college-students-similarities-between-white-black-latinx-and-asian-students/
17/Millennials, as the saying goes, are getting old before they had a chance to get rich.
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