{"id":183951,"date":"2012-09-26T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/26\/things-that-makes-me-want-to-go-long-on-guillotine-manufactures\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T01:37:00","slug":"things-that-makes-me-want-to-go-long-on-guillotine-manufactures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/26\/things-that-makes-me-want-to-go-long-on-guillotine-manufactures\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Makes Me Want to Go Long on Guillotine Manufactures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larissa Faw, a self-styled expert on millennial as well as a millennial herself, has identified the cause of the fact that her generation is not buying cars. It’s because they want a brand new car with all the bells and whistles, or nothing at all<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The reason Millennials are turning away from cars is simply because no one is giving them vehicles they want. It\u2019s not about car-sharing trends affecting city-dwelling youth or that they are avoiding gas guzzlers in order to save the environment. \u201c[Millennials] expect you to be green and to do right by the environment,\u201d says Anne Hubert of Scratch, the consulting unit of Viacom. \u201cYou don\u2019t get extra credit for doing what you are supposed to do.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span> Today\u2019s teens and Millennials are often called the entitled generation for a reason. They expect to drive their very own fully-loaded luxury vehicle with retractable roof and multi-speaker audio system. If they can\u2019t have their specific dream car, then they don\u2019t want anything and won\u2019t waste time getting a driver\u2019s license. Past generations of young drivers, by comparison, were satisfied with any piece of metal that moved.<\/span>

<\/span> My brother and I, like many other Millennials, weren\u2019t willing to downgrade, compromise, or to be forced to drive a parent\u2019s vehicle. I received my license at age seventeen only after I had my red convertible sitting in the driveway. My brother refused to even look at the driver\u2019s manual until he received his BMW at age eighteen. It is this sense of entitlement that is reshaping how automakers market and develop vehicles to appeal to Millennials. \u201cIt\u2019s an entire soup-to-nuts makeover. The old recipe isn\u2019t going to work,\u201d says Hubert.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just because your parents have have more money than common sense, and you are a self-entitled spoiled brat does not make this the normal state of affairs in America.<\/p>\n

The sense of entitlement, and the complete lack of awareness of those less fortunate than her, makes me think that she must somehow be related to Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

H\/t Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larissa Faw, a self-styled expert on millennial as well as a millennial herself, has identified the cause of the fact that her generation is not buying cars. It’s because they want a brand new car with all the bells and whistles, or nothing at all: The reason Millennials are turning away from cars is simply …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}