Clearly, I know how it works better than you do.
Look at the bolded red statement. Blindly "buying stuff" is what this millennial generation is doing (for the most part). The economy (in it's pure form) is based upon supply and demand. There has to be a demand in order for anyone to want to buy or trade for commodities. If there is very little beef and lots of people want it, the usually traded amount can double or triple, and that is inflation. Flood the market with too much beef then demand fades and the value drops. That is how it works.
Now, the Millennials have changed the order from supply and demand to demand and supply. The corporations MANUFACTURE the demand for them, and sales drive the supply requirement. Very efficient for business, very sad and disappointing to the observers of this paradigm shift in the consumer base. All a company like Apple has to do is to announce a new product, and that will create the demand (and manufacture an initial run of units). Then, they see if the product is selling. If the demand is high, then the supply is increased. Very simple and unremarkable for a company. It's the Apple BUYERS who are extraordinary. They will line up and wait for a day in line, go to all their friends and tell them about the product, then when they acquire it they will essentially act as salespeople to increase demand even more. And these people are usually millennials. They are also the ones who go on Instagram and Snapchat and basically act as agents of the corporate system without even realizing it. And it is not even the best product in it's class or market segment!
C'mon, man.
Facebook is the EPITOME of the Millennial generation. Zuckerberg has created an empire on the herd-like behaviors of an entire generation worldwide, just like Apple did. Over a billion people who go on his website every day to basically graze and chew cud, just like livestock. Nobody on Facebook is creating anything, they are simply working for Facebook and talking about the different products, places and politics of their lives. Two individuals is hardly a vote of confidence in a generation already more than a billion strong.
Foundation science. That is what the Millennials are missing.