How about we start with the fact that American millennials are one of the most prosperous generations in the history of the world , so calling them poor is absurd in and of itself . That ' s a start . The article is so rife with asinine logic millennials shouldn ' t save for retirement because they don ' t want to and drinking sounds fun lol that it should never have even been posted here , let alone upvoted to the top . The few statistics she uses , which are removed from their context using earnings as a metric without taking into account cost of living , etc , don ' t justify her subsequent paragraphs of interpretations in the least . This is not an economics article . It ' s a rambling , specious oped . <| sep |> Ok I am diamond too , I ' ll try it out though .