GenX and older millennials really got fucked over. This is my 4th recession since I was 17. (1988, 2008, 2020, 2025). This one is completely one man’s fault.
It does kinda feel that from 2008 onwards, it just never really got any better. Housing has been shit, and seems to only become more shit every year. Big tech taking over, and getting more and more control each year. And it doesn't seem to be getting any better in the next 20.
It’s not the case of winning… It’s just a case of where if you’re less than 63 years old, you’ve experienced less than me… If you’re younger than me, you will probably get to experience more fun things after I’m gone… 🥳
I know Millennials feel singled out for recession, but GenX have suffered all the same ones plus 2 more. I bought my first house under Reagan at 14% interest. It’s not generational. It’s the republicans! Republicans…same sh;t different generation.
You guys are all forgetting to factor in some stuff, like inflation for example. It's not that people don't think you guys experienced a lot of stuff, but at this point in history the circumstances the younger people grew up in are different than yours after all this time
That means nothing. Because you experience it NOW, it’s somehow different than my NOW?! This is absurd and moronic on its face. Life continues after us and it happened before us. I have experienced FIFTY-TWO YEARS of different issues, but because they happened to you at other times it’s worse? SMH
We lived through the same inflation as you…as adults. You resent & demonize a whole generation that you really know nothing about. But Trump is about to give you a glimpse of what we lived through under Reagan. Good luck to all of us. Economic hardship doesn’t discriminate based on our birth year.
Yep… We just got lucky enough to be born early enough in the process of collapse, that didn’t have to grow up in the extremely highly accelerated phase which we are now
I wonder if there was something they could have done to stop it. Like, a different choice and a way of choosing it. Like, if there were only a consistent indicator of coming recession, like, say, electing Republicans.
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Republicans.
I’m sure you’ll get right on fixing all of the problems that we’ve been trying to fix for the last 40 years
It isn't new.
I’ve been through so many fucking “once in a lifetime, economic collapses“ that I have to look up in Wikipedia to even remember them
You realize over 50% of boomers have nothing saved for retirement and are in the process of becoming destitute and homeless right now?
Get up and change it
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