One thing I have noticed is how prevalent the hustle culture has become among Millennials. LinkedIn is a hotbed of narcissism, and Twitter has a ton of self-proclaimed business superstars who have made money by having companies entirely dependent on using foreign labor and providing shitty service for customers. It's quite appalling how often you hear fellow Millennials go on and on boasting about their own "successes" or try to sell themselves without an ounce of honesty.
The hustle of creating "passive income" means that we are going to see a lot of sociopaths becoming landlords and doing the bare-minimum for those who rent from them, and the quality of services will continue to decline across all companies as there is no value in providing a good service, merely making money. The decline of quality we have seen from the boomer generation onward (yes, that includes you, Generation X, you aren't exempt from being self-destructive narcissists like your parents and your children) is going to ramp up significantly.
Some people will say, "blame the system, not the person," but for god's sake, eventually someone has to stand up and refuse to operate as basically a scam artist. For as many supposed "leftists" there are among Millennials, they sure have no qualms about taking the worst aspects of human greed and using that as their core business model.
Am I over-exaggerating here?
Yeah hopefully so, or whenever I sell it I won't have the value of a beaten down shithole. There's not many rent houses where I live and of course I get one right by me that gets neglected. It was never even a bad house, but whoever owns it does the absolute bare minimum to maintain it. It had a decent size tree branch fall near my fence. A tree service comes out to fix it, only does the bare minimum. They could have paid the service who was already an extra $100-200 and pruned the entire obviously neglected tree. They didn't and a big branch fell on their roof and damaged it, which is still not fixed. No way is that cheaper than just fixing it the first time. It's so dumb.