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I'll add for Gen X and late Boomers some outrage. We experienced, the 1993 the health care non-profit insurance collapse leaving millions of us with healthcare debt that was suppose to be covered by our insurance. We have all been hurt with the rinse and repeat of financial crises.

Beat me to it.... My dad was always A little weird about certain things. Poverty does things to people. And they pass it on

There needs to be a word. It's not "reply guy" but it's similar... those who troll the timelines for one or two particular subjects only to interject their snark, commentary, 'splanations. (and on my timeline) to then be blocked.

Coincidentally it's my birthday VERY SOON and wow look at that another stupid economic crisis from even dumber greedy assholes.

Millennials are the most educated of all groups. They're also the most unlucky economically, and none of that is their fault!

I left a good job in August and took a federal job for the same reason. Job security. They fired me six months later.

My story is exactly the same, except working in an industry that is not very high-paying. The fear of losing my job kept me at one company way too long and I got stuck. I essentially started over 9 months ago and now all of this 😵‍💫

Im sorry man its just insanely cruel and unjust.

Remember when the pandemic hit and they were begging us to do what’s right because they were the largest group at risk?

Yes.

I had someone comment that if I was under a certain age I was never gonna be able to retire anyways and I'm like "I'm supposed to be 5 years from retirement?" JFC people are the worst

US civilians had a *noticeably* nice WW2 compared to basically every other country that was involved, of course

Bear in mind that the fall of [insert empire here] generally didn’t happen overnight or even quickly on a human scale. Sometimes entire generations (yes plural) spent their whole lives watching things slowly collapse around them. The US has been falling apart for a good 45 years now.

This is what they want. They (rich, power hungry, psychopaths) want us to fight over the boat while they shoot holes in it. Let's all vent, get pissed off and do something about it.

I’m doing my part *punches bully at the Enchantment Under The Sea prom*

Seems reasonable - [gen Xer, laughing nervously]

Yeah, today I was looking at the markets like "Oh, another one? Just throw it on the pile."

Why are Millenials destroying the financial crisis business? Story at 11.

GenX here, and Millennials leading the outrage is the only thing giving me hope right now. Rage on. It's entirely justified.

as a baby gen x-er. at least i got a few years of malaise before the shit hit the fan, i have so much sympathy for you guys

i certainly don't like finger wagging either!

Which is itself worthy to note. Our generations, being the ones who grew alongside and subsequently with the development of the internet and globalization, are the best ones suited to recognize the problem and start paving the better path forward. This will only continue unless we stop it together

Honestly I think that if they do have kids they either hate them or don’t see them as people but rather as sources of vicarious success

I promise you this never gets easy. No matter what generation you were born. Say anything you want to say. Most of us were not born wealthy & we understand. I’m just glad I was born with a healthy body.

No, they can't. They're pathetic attention seekers who have to make everything about themselves.

Totally agree. I’m one of lucky boomers- not fair what these generations have had to deal with. Of course it’s all relative, but they naturally will compare to their parents lives…

I got permanently disabled before COVID. Luckily had 66% disability insurance via employer (I’d never have thought about). But it’s fixed, no COL adjustments. The past 5 years of inflation took my real income down 25% and now we’re gonna do that again. Fuck this shit.

I have a month to move out of my place, cannot find anything in my price range, and had to take a 66% pay cut when my federally funded job died. Our generation is fucked.

Seriously. I was literally born into one! This will now be number 6 and I'm only 43!

I got to see three. This is four. Whipee. I will never own a house. And if I do, I will never pay it off. So fun being on the older end of the Y Gen. I am furious.

They should teach the Four Yorkshire Men sketch in schools :) youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE?...

It's okay to be angry. Just be angry together instead of being angry at each other.

Just any food really

Living indoors

Which is to say people don’t even have to read history to know millennials have been screwed. They just have to watch their favorite movies or remember their childhood

People should be _commiserating_ across generations about this shit, & also should be acknowledging that the earlier shit was rehearsal for the later shit, & the later shit is worse because we didn't fix the earlier shit.

Why would you assume we aren’t organizing?

It's not a competition.

I’m 62. My first house cost 1.5 times my annual income, which seemed like an impossible amount of money, so a mortgage of course. Recently, my home taxable valuation went to 15.0 times my annual income. Can’t see how the young will do it.

That feels about right. I'm on the lower end of house prices at $160k-ish. (I'd have to pull up my mortgage to be sure) and I'm at 4x my income and I make just a hair over the median in my state.

Thank you for not hating and blaming your millennial children like so many other boomers do.

I agree. I'm a boomer, no kids but big family, lots of millenials. I've often thought about how my siblings and I benefited from a strong state and surpassed our parents' standard of living. It's not the same anymore because so much has been taken away as they were growing up. Makes me sad.

The "shut the door behind me" mentality towards opportunity is all pervasive.

Absolutely!

Me too. And I agree. I have kids in both Millennial and Gen Z, and they are struggling. I’m still helping them and my aging stepfather. It’s not been easy for anyone since boomers.

That's all I want to achieve in life, though.

Perspective.

By my count, the 3rd or 4th depending on how you count it.

Obviously it's not the only cause, but so much damage was done by our collective agreement to allow non-experts to spout ridiculous nonsense instead of shutting them down and saying, "Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad." It's led us to let people like Reagan, Trump, and MTG hold power.

Is this our fourth?

Thanks. And you speak for me. Born in 1980, which now may actually be one of the *worst* years to have been born in. Stolen election of 2000, GOP security failures leading to 9/11, Iraq, GOP financial crisis of 2008, trump 1, COVID, Trump 2. & as someone who campaigned for Dems, it pisses me off.

She says to a platform that includes a large number of GenXers.

Well I’m not a millennial but express that rage. This is totally fucked and didn’t have to happen. We should all be enraged. I have to wonder at the people who aren’t angry.

No shit!

The major financial crises will continue until morale improves.

And a big drop in crime too, it really is about poverty.

Frankly that's what I'm hoping saves us. SO MANY Americans briefly experienced a social safety net, and now this asshole administration has made it clear they're burning our meager protections down.

It was all the hedge fund and private equity guys who said that. Those are the first ones to locate when society reaches the point of actually revolting.

That was a really weird time - rents stabilized, costs of living flattened, working from home meant that my (limited) social life stopped revolving around work, and no commute meant that I had much more time. I talked to my extended family every week for almost two years. I started playing music.

“You know, Gen X-“ GO SUCK A GARDEN HOSE, WRITE YOUR OWN POSTS.

Millennials as a voting block have more power than the youngest gen Xers who graduated into the bursting of the dot com bubble, worked their asses off at $28k/yr to have their meager gains wiped out in 2008 & now here we go again. But we all can agree that boomers pulled the 🪜 up behind them.

Why are they so obsessed with us? It's exhausting.

Oh you have every right to be pissed, they keep fucking you over

This. 100000000% this

Where is this happening because boy do I have some spleen to vent on anyone talking shit on a generation that came of age literally as all the wheels were coming off all the fucking wagons

those drop shippers who voted for Trump are having a real bad week

Carry on 🤗💗🥰

Yes! If we make it through this, we will never feel the same security or stability in our jobs again.

:(

You say that like it’s not a factual description of the circumstance

youtu.be/YIp-0V6YKfQ

I graduated secondary school in '08 and ever since I have had an ironclad conviction that all our problems are the result of rich idiots who want all the money and no responsibility.

Just talking about this tonight. Global Financial Crisis Brexit Covid Ukraine War Trump fucking tariffs Can we just have a period of calm please?!

People need to be kicked in the neck and/or balls.

Genx is pissed too. I feel your pain.

market crashed bc of avocado toast 🙁

That generation was permanently broken by it! My grandmother and her sister hid cash all over their houses because they didn't trust banks!

The whole point of the social welfare programs DOGE is ravaging was to ensure the American people would never have to suffer through another Great Depression again.

My grandpa got through the Depression by getting paid to shoot fascists Just sayin

💯 And my great-great-etc. grandfathers fought in the Revolutionary War to end monarchic rule and in the Civil War to end white supremacy, and the idea was that they did it so no one else would ever have to again! Suffering isn’t a GD video game high score to beat.

Sure, the ame grandparents who would hide money under the mattress and stockpile soup because they were traumatized and lost all faith in institutions. Next up: the part where my veteran grandfather would curl up in a ball in the closet and sob himself to sleep every time we had a thunderstorm.

And quite honestly, the Great Depression was a fucking walk in the park compared to what most other countries went through in the last ninety years.

Funny how that works

Boomers and GenXers should be grateful to us for not just overturning the table

Third *Republican* Recession...they were all Republican Recessions. The wagging (usually) Republican fingers should note that these are Republican Recessions.

Maybe if we didn’t buy so many cappuccinos ☕️

Everything i don't like about Millenials is something Gen X or Boomers taught them. Everything they complain about is something Gen X or Boomers caused. I can imagine they should be allowed to complain about things.

Just going to parachute in and a GenX to commiserate. I'm so fucking tired of this

But ... Faine... The hose... They drank from it

I was born in 78 so technically I'm a very young gen x'er, but I got my very first post university job in early 2001 and it has been a demented roller coaster of crises since then

We feel your pain. Every time the wound heals, the fucking Rethuglicans come in and tear the scab off.

It's been one trainwreck after another for us, all the while seeing the signs before it happens, over and over.

This. 💙💙✌🏼

I’m given to understand that there are good ways of knocking the bottom out, and bad ways, and this is certainly not one of the good ways.

Gen X is the worst about this. And they’re the ones that keep voting for it. Selfish generation.

Solidarity from GenX in this corner. Been told all my life that I'm "too emotional" and that I should just "suck it up." Two words: Fuck. That. Noise. I've had to rebuild my life as many times as decades I've been alive if not more. I'm fucking tired of it.

💯

That was the worst time to enter the job market, all the while parents expected us to just come home with a job after 60 minutes of looking. There was nothing but threats of homelessness or shame

But really though! I graduated college then too. We can’t catch a break.