Most millennials graduated shortly after the crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
Yeah. It sure was “fun” competing with people with decades of experience and advanced degrees right after graduation. I hope that our generation and those after us are able to course correct and undo the bullshit that Boomers have inflicted upon humanity.
Note: Not generation war (no war but class war) but unfortunate reality. Boomers overwhelmingly supported neo-liberal politicians that to pulled up the ladder behind them and robbed future generations in exchange for short-term gains.
Older millennial here. Economy took a shit right as I was getting out of college and into the workforce. Good times.
My friends and I weren’t financially stable-ish until our mid-30s. And by that I mean we were able to start buying some name brand stuff instead of the knock-offs. Felt like we were kings. But only if we had a significant other to split the bills with.
I’m tired and I don’t care about this country anymore.
Immediately before, in my case. I’m thinking of welding some armor to a bulldozer.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
The economy is always bad. The idea is to make people feel insecure and desperate so that they take on more/worse work for less pay. They’ll use every excuse under the sun, from “we can’t afford to pay workers” to “AI could do your job” and it doesn’t matter if it’s true because there are fewer companies growing larger who control so much of the employment landscape that they can unify against workers and make it so.
I got my MBA a couple months before the dot com bubble burst. Tell me about it.
I started college at the same time… also I graduated with my second bachelor’s when 2008 happened…
Okay you just need to stop pursuing higher education lmao.
I graduated with my associates in 2008, which is how I ended up joining the military later that year.
Suddenly
As if this hasn’t been going on for decades.
My solution is to do the very minimum I can to get by and otherwise enjoy my minimalist life. Fuck consumerism with a 10ft pole. Let it rot.
I mean things were looking up and then Trump happened
We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.
The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.
Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.
Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.
Mhmm conservatism is a blight on humanity, nothing good will ever come of it. Every single time a conservative gets in power anywhere it always makes things worse. It is a fucking parasite that most be removed or else it will be the end of you. It denies progress, why do you think we constantly have to fight for basic human rights? Why do you think they want to go back to the 1950’s so badly? They hate that they can’t be openly racist, openly homophobic and openly transphobic. They want to drive everyone into having to play up to their ideals regardless of what you want.
When does the character build/customization end so I can start playing the game?
A young salmon swims downriver searching for an ocean he has never seen. Eventually the riverbanks give way to a vast blue expanse. He approaches the first fish he sees and asks them where he might find the ocean. The other fish replies
“You’re in it!”
The salmon shakes his head.
“This? This is water. I’m looking for the ocean!”
The character building and customization never ends, but it’s also not something that has to be a burden. The way school and such introduces things like reading and learning or physical activity is sometimes very damaging because it gives you this impression that these things have to be work, that it’s all about deadlines and what you can get out of them instead of enjoying them for the sake of the thing.
Suffice it to say if you’re waiting to one day start your life and become who you want to be you’re missing the point. The journey is supposed to be the focus, don’t wait to start living for some lofty time you’re allowed to begin building the life you want. Start the journey for it now and find passions to savor along the way. Life doesn’t begin at 20, 30, or even 40, you just get different content so you might as well make the most of the fleeting window to enjoy the things that make life at your age special.
A long ramble, but I hope it conveys my point. Good luck!
Sorry there’s no game, just a character screen with microtransactions.
My character is so big by now.
I guess? If it did you’d Luigi. Too comfortable for that? I’d do it too, but you first.
*Gen Y graduating from high school directly into Great Recession*
Should have voted… And not for the guy whose favorite president is known for genocide and crashing the economy.
Gen Z boys failed both steps (statistically)
graduating from high school
Should have voted…
Pretty sure that would have been illegal for most of them. Can’t vote under 18.
In 2024 the oldest Gen Zs were 27, old man.
They were talking about gen y.
As someone born in the early 80’s, just for once I’d like a nice, boring decade. Pretty please.
Saw the fall of communism, the Balkan wars, 9/11, the rise and fall of the internet, the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab Spring, Brexit, global pandemic, war in Europe again, US politics, middle-east still fucked as usual. And then there’s climate change to fuck over everything in general.
So yeah, I’d love a decade where nothing happens. Heck, I’ll take a boring six months at this point. Gimme a fucking break.
Well yeah you could also go like that backwards in time. Iran kidnap crisis, OPEP, cold war, hot wars ( proxy and ww i, ii) and so on and so on.
At least 1st world was steadily growing and improving since 1945, almost uninterrupted (yep, crisis in 1st world are amateur levels). If you were NOT born in 1st world you have to add corruption levels you can’t imagine, economy rollercoaster that makes 10% inflation look like an utopia, and CIA destabilizing your country every single time it starts catching up.
We didn’t start the fire comes to mind. Things have always been crazy, welcome to life since the dawn of society as we know it.
Every generation could have a “We didn’t start the fire song.”. It is just politics and the human race on repeat, until it can’t or won’t.
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
Also born in early 80s and I agree.
Fall of the internet? The interet does not appear fallen to me
It’s hard to see it falling when you’re falling right along with it.
But that is falling as it if its a process thats happening right now, not as something that has already happend
“The Fall of X” does not imply a past event. You can live during the fall of something quite easily. Such a us currently living through the fall of the American hegemony.
If your read closely he says he “saw the fall of the internet”. Saw…
I look this photo and I only can think how theraputic it would be to have a smoke in that situation.
Same thing happened to the millennials… It’s almost like it’s planned…
As a millennial (in the middle) I legit assumed this was referring to me 😅
Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.
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The US is in decline. Hastened by Republican ideology, accelerationists, and general willful stupidity and ignorance to varying degrees across the board. The “economy” revolves more and more around the stock market which only serves to enrich the already well off and wealthy while the rest of the ~90% flounder.
