Martha Stewart isn’t really a Baby Boomer. She was born in 1941, and most people believe that the Boomers were born 1946-64 (although I always thought the cut-off was more like 1959). But Martha talks like a Boomer, and I think she probably relates to the Boomers, especially when it comes to throwing shade on the younger generations. Martha has a new interview with Luxury Listings where she questions the work ethic and initiative of the millennial generation, which is generally thought to be people born 1980-2000. Millennials, Martha says, aren’t even capable of growing a lovely little tomato plant in their own tiny apartment.
Martha Stewart isn’t impressed by millennials, who she says need to stop living with their parents and find some “initiative.” The domestic diva, 74, didn’t mince her words in a new interview with Luxury Listings.
“I think every business is trying to target millennials. But who are millennials?” she said. “Now we are finding out that they are living with their parents. They don’t have the initiative to go out and find a little apartment and grow a tomato plant on the terrace.”
She continued, “I understand the plight of younger people ... The economic circumstances out there are very grim. But you have to work for it. You have to strive for it. You have to go after it.” Stewart added, “I got married at 19, and I immediately got an apartment and I fixed it up. I was very proud of everything I did. I got the furniture at auctions for pennies.”
She said that she was encouraged by restaurateur David Chang to focus on educating young people during a recent dinner at her Bedford, NY, farm.
“David Chang kept saying, ‘Martha, you know so much and the millennials have to know this stuff! ... They don’t know how to grow spinach.’”
I think millennials are a mixed bag, just like every other generation, if we’re being honest. Some millennials are a—holes with no initiative, and some are fantastic people who work hard. The Boomers like to think they were the first people to do everything, that they built the American middle class, that they increased the wealth of the nation, that they are the center of the universe (sound familiar, millennials?). In a lot of ways, millennials are still dealing with the failures of the Boomers, the mistaken domestic, international and economic policies that the Boomers have come to represent. The Boomers tanked the American economy repeatedly, and now the millennials are trying to climb out of that legacy. So this story is basically “Martha Stewart yells at clouds.”
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