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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We got lulled into thinking everything was going to be fine. Then we got whacked with all the tech outsourcing, dot-bomb, 9/11…etc. but at least we had cheaper college first and that gave us a foot in the door without as much of the crushing college debt that millennials got.

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago

Everytime I see this I think "Gen-X would like a word."

I mean, yes millenials, but we were alive for all that plus more, most notably a childhood filled with "the russians might nuke us tomorrow."

And frankly the boomers get to throw in JFK assassination, etc along with all the Genx stuff.

We're just an unfortunately stupid and murderous race, and plus also the universe is very happy to snuff us out if we let it. Not a good combo for a stable boring life.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I had a dollar every time some looney came up to me saying it's the apocalypse in X day... I dunno like 12 dollars?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which isn't a lot because inflation is getting out of hand.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

But it's weird that it happened twice.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Cheer up, maybe the next "end of days" will be the real one!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

At least four end of days. Y2K, Maiyan 2012, Rasputin's 2013, and that Christian Fundie quadruple moon eclipse one.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile gen-x: So have we. Plus growing up during the Cold War, Iran hostage crisis, and 9/11.

Yes it sucks.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education

The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.

Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.

And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.

Proxy wars didn't stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn't stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.

You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.

And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.

Yes it sucks.

But you had it good, and politically you've fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.

We've got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You still had to be not poor to take advantage of all that. College was cheaper, but nowhere near cheap. Homes were possible, but many lost them in the crash. It wasn't like the boomer and earlier days where you could support a family to retirement on one job needing only a GED.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You still had to be not poor to take advantage of all that.

Yeah, randomly shitting on individuals of older generations is just not productive.

Yes, the society as a whole benefitted from better economic conditions, borrowed from tomorrow, and pulled the ladders up behind them.... but we don't know that user. Plenty of people in "the good times" did not have it good.

For all they know, that particular GenX or Boomer was destitute and desperate.

For all they know, that particular elder was in the protests and on the picket lines and fighting this shit every step of the way.

We need solidarity. Every generation, every age, everyone and anyone who is willing. Don't blame the individuals for the groups.

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