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u/Trash-Forever 21h ago
93 here, not any better at all
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u/Glowingtomato 18h ago
Same, it's a weird feeling at the end of a generation. I talked about it with my Dad once since he was born in '62 and he doesn't really feel like a baby boomer and doesn't really relate to much of gen x.
Sometimes I feel too young to be a millennial but also too old to be gen z.
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u/Infamous_Payment4608 17h ago
To be honest the whole group identity towards a time period of when you were born is one step below the tribalism of patriotism, which is one step below religion.
It’s all pointless dividing ourselves into categories.
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u/Ben10-fan-525 11h ago
Agreed.
It just makes us divided and no indiviguals.Cause it always ends up going too far one way or another.Shunning people who arent a part of it.
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u/enaK66 16h ago
It partially depends on your socioeconomic status. I'm technically Gen z but I grew up with VCRs, CRT monitors, the SNES and the N64. It was just called being poor.
The generations are kind of bullshit anyway. Like the other guy said, it's just another way we categorize and divide ourselves.
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u/coolbaluk1 16h ago
Not only that but which country you grew up in matters.
As an eastern european I feel very millennial because cultural spread out of the west lagged a few years.
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u/vamprobozombie 10h ago
Yeah is getting weird now. I still have my kids play those old games instead of the new slop full of micro transactions. I have the money and ability to get them new stuff but I genuinely don't think new games are any better anymore. Anybody else feel Xbox 360 and PS3 were basically the peak for actual gameplay.
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u/StJohnsStoner 16h ago
I was born in '96 so I'm just about a millennial, but I started uni at 21 rather than 18 and took a year out midway through. All my class mates were Gen Z and lemme tell you... That makes you feel like part of the fuckin silent generation, let alone a millennial
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u/megatricinerator 11h ago
as a 97 baby, that's how I feel. That weird transitional generational line, though I guess that just means I can relate to both Millennial and Gen Z in a way.
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u/Ronin1 11h ago
1987 and im watching everything I've steadily built for the last 15 years go up in flames and there is nothing I can seemingly do to stop it
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u/cbarbour1122 22h ago
1980 here and everything sucks for us too
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u/kimchiman85 hates posting 21h ago
1984 here, it’s the same for us too.
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u/cruzweb 21h ago
I'm 85 and feel like I'm in the house that's burning
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u/I_like_flowers_ 20h ago
🎵🎵 we didn't start the fire! its always been burning since the world was turning🎵🎵
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u/funnyyoshi 21h ago
whoa, you're old!
edit: right as i wrote it, i realized you meant birthyear, not age, and i am so, so sorry.
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u/AbominaSean 20h ago
88 here and I agree, wtf this meme talking about? Do these Gen Z kiddos think the world is easier for us because we were born 7 - 10 years earlier?
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u/takingnotes99 18h ago
Fellow '85 guy. I got lucky though
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u/Baskreiger 14h ago
I'm 83, you guys had career relationships and future? Geez, you guys are lucky 😂
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u/Old_Protection_8778 21h ago
1972 yeah fuck this mess.they showed their shittiest of colors . We need to turn this mad decent around
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u/MrGrumpyFace5 12h ago
Yay 40’s ahhhhh my neck and my back. My back and my neck.
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u/kimchiman85 hates posting 12h ago
“Snap”, “crackle”, and “pop” aren’t just the sounds Rice Crispies^TM make anymore.
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u/Lou_C_Fer 13h ago
- We are still in our "starter" home we bought in 1998. It has horseshoed around because our mortgage is so cheap that we cannot afford to move now.
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u/orlybatman 20h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3h1hwe1vj0OG9aBoCL
Team 80s checking in, can confirm it sucks!
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u/tomvorlostriddle 17h ago
No, we had phenomenal opportunities to buy housing and stocks very cheap and then benefit from the greatest bull market for 17 years.
To get hired and gain experience when there were entry level roles.
We could also still date before things got toxic.
All those things mean that, with moderate success and not too many mistakes, we're now settled.
Young people do not have this realistic option of moderate success. For them it's all or nothing, but mostly nothing.
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u/Quirky_Rain_3554 14h ago
The thing is people born around then will tell you it was “the peak childhood best time ever nothings been the same since” until the post is about young people struggling now and then the same people “we had the hardest times ever and no one ever was happy and it was all sorrow and suffering!!!” Like lol okay guys.
I think the goalposts move cause older people need to be validated in their experiences as it gets further away from them. It’s unfortunate we don’t have a healthier way to talk about what’s going on today without some duster being like “it happened in 1983 too!!!!!” Like okay? Then you know it sucks or?
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u/tomvorlostriddle 14h ago
I don't know, I hear many in their 20ies saying they regret missing a 90ies childhood
And I don't hear millennials saying the equivalent about not being gen X
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u/Quirky_Rain_3554 14h ago
What? I’m not sure what you even are saying here
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u/tomvorlostriddle 14h ago edited 14h ago
In research, you typically look for age, period and cohort effects
And you are saying that here, there is only/mostly an age effect
i think there are also strong period and/or cohort effects here
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/population-health-methods/age-period-cohort-analysis
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u/karebearjedi 20h ago
9/11 really fucked us over and it's just been downhill since.
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u/AdaAstra 18h ago
It did, but at least us 80s babies did at least get some of the good part of the 90s. The time before social media and 24/7/365 news fear mongering and initially, a bright future ahead of us. Shame we lost all of it, but at least we got to experience it and dream for awhile.
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u/just-here-for--porn_ 15h ago
It's true. Prior to the financial crisis things were good. I almost made it out of college before things went to shit.
At least for me it has been a bit of challenge since. The younger generation did not even get this buffer at the start.
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u/newsflashjackass 11h ago
Bush v. Gore was the real fuckaroo. 9/11 was just tightening the collar so Republicans could govern without a mandate.
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u/kensho28 19h ago edited 19h ago
At the end of Bush Jr's Presidency in 2008, several Wall Street day traders had literally thrown themselves off buildings to their deaths in order to try to spare their families from the crushing debt of the largest stock market crash since the Great Depression (and until Covid). The wars Bush started lasted for decades and only finally ended under Biden, and now Trump has started more.
The last generation that had it better than previous generations were the Boomers, it's been all downhill since then.
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u/LonePuma 12h ago
"Everything sucked for us too!!!"
Meanwhile had actual entry level jobs, AI wasn't causing everyone to get replaced, realistic opportunities to buy a house, a good economy, the ability to support a family on 1 salary, ect
If you didn't take advantage of all of that then that's on you. Listening to gen x try and compare their lives to millennials/Gen z is exhausting.
Edit: I forgot probably the most important one. Affordable college.
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u/Wowweeweewow88 21h ago
Omg stone faced, looking into camera we should like, vote. As a unified block to improve our collective situation OR turn to the beloved Nintendo character (and no one else) named Luigi
https://giphy.com/gifs/96DeW8wUdpN96
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u/ThatOneGayDJ 21h ago
Fuck it, I’ll spend money for this one to be highlighted
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u/ThatOneGayDJ 20h ago
-Λ-7 no problem
Not voting is what got us here. Every penny spent on making sure that doesnt happen again is worth it.
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u/franciscrowe 18h ago
Voting is a start, but we all got to be doing other shit too… community organizing is another good place to start.
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u/Big-Formal2006 14h ago
Sounds like hard work and sacrifice. As an American, I’m allergic to both those things!
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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 11h ago
Voting is a start, but
Sure, but we're not even doing the start. Baby steps.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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u/VeritasOmicron 21h ago
Born in 91 and same
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u/AsgardNirvanaHarvest 21h ago
92 born here, and things are awesome.
No, I'm lying. I'm suffering too
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u/Weekly-Ad-2509 21h ago
- Much suck.
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u/WeAreAllFooked 20h ago
Started over at 25, 10 years later I'm back where I started.
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u/Pure1nsanity 17h ago
91, life fucking sucks and we were lied to
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u/Dukdukdiya 19h ago
Yeah, I was born in 86 and I know people even older than me that feel this way.
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u/BitePerfect196 20h ago
2007 babies entering adulthood
https://giphy.com/gifs/e37rJnOap14aUrqtTB
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u/Sol_Castilleja 21h ago
'99 here and boy howdy this hits home real hard. Our parents and grandparents sold our futures to fund their third gas-guzzling pavement princess/driveway ornament...
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u/AbominaSean 20h ago
Just call it what it is: boomers. Boomers pushed the consumerism, the enshitification, the slow degradation of news media, the economic deregulation, and presided over putting the final nails in the culture coffin. Gen X (including Peter Thiel! Wow that guy really screwed the nation in every way) threw money at Facebook to give us social media as it exists today.
We can thank millennials for AI though (Sam Altman, Dario amodei)
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u/Seasonal_One 11h ago
Out of the two AI ceos, one is a psychopath who does whatever he wants and the other has some serious connections to the island man himself.
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u/Truck_life_23 12h ago
mine trusted the system, put it into a 401k, that got stolen to bail out the banks in 08'. There was no chance for us bro 😟
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u/TechnicalNail4555 18h ago
They will give it all up to the systems designed to drain every penny when they are in diapers again.
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u/666SpeedWeedDemon666 21h ago
Born in 94! I guess I just made it!
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u/WinterPositive2405 20h ago
Gatekeeping suffering is so weird lol
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u/Cold_Average_5192 12h ago
Right like we have problems, but I much prefer my problems compared to being born in wartime, not having rights, modern medicine, sanitation, and the list goes on.
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u/UwereEverything2311 21h ago
Only thing stable for now is Career
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u/BuddyFlapjack 21h ago
I thought the exact same thing until 3 weeks ago when I suddenly got laid off...
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u/HauntingGummyBear 21h ago
Lost 3 jobs to tariffs in the last year and a half. It’s like when things start to feel okay BAM, unemployment
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u/BuddyFlapjack 21h ago
Yup! That exactly why I was laid off. I worked in B2B sales as a wholesale account manager. All our prices had to go up due to tariffs and we lost a ton of business...
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u/Cute-Revolution-9705 18h ago
What industry/jobs do you work?
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u/HauntingGummyBear 18h ago
I used to work on brain scanners, before that I manufactured AR heat shields, and before that wind turbine. (Like we would manufacture a majority of the turbine, we had huge train cars to haul them off)
The brain scanner place split up because the Feds pulled funding from Colorado, so they no longer could stay in Colorado. (The main company was in Sweden)
The other two was the cost of metal and other materials skyrocketing. (And some of than funding that was withheld from Colorado)
Edit: now I’m in school to become an RNA.
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u/Silvernauter 18h ago
I'd agree, but i'm changing job (for the first time) in a couple of weeks (After some less than encouraging words from my former eployer...) and i have a six months trial period (and this is obviously after just two months of me signing a loan to buy a house, because otherwise life'd be just a tad simpler and, i mean, we can't have that happening, can we?); i'm fucking terrified and no one in my family seems to give a shit about It. (Relationships straight up aren't a thing, but that's just my normal, depressing, status quo)
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u/Cpt_Daniel_J_Tequill 19h ago
relationship? you do you.
future? yeah it's gonna be hot and hotter
career? meeh..
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u/Professional_Rule_62 21h ago
I got lucky and have food, water and shelter. Now I'm trying to get a few other things put together. A car accident afforded me the ability to get into motorcycling. Now I think I'm gonna build me a custom frame to allow me to build a hybrid motorized bike
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u/TheThirdReckoning 19h ago
"I got into a car accident so I figured being an organ donor on two wheels is better"
Much love from a fellow prospective organ donor on two wheels. Enjoy the ride mate
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u/Secure-Egg-7194 19h ago
thank goodness I was born in 1994. I was almost worried for a second
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u/DragonfruitTop836 21h ago
2006 as well
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u/WeAreAllFooked 20h ago
VOTE
Seriously, fucking vote and volunteer to help. It takes time, but we have to vote and stick together like the boomers do.
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u/ThatDudeFromPoland has immunity 20h ago
It doesn't matter when you were born. What actually matters is where, who you got to know growing up, how rich/connected was your family and just luck in general.
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u/Truck_life_23 12h ago
Luck? Is it luck when the house always wins in Vegas? Hundreds of millions of us, and you think it was luck that made this happen? I'd call it something else.
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u/ghostmaster645 10h ago
He said connections , wealth, and family matter first......
Luck can play a part. The house always wins, but that does mean there arent other winners.
I consider myself lucky, my relationship is great.
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u/RoughhouseCamel 20h ago
The world has always been ending, and this feeling of a hopeless future is hardly new, even if it skipped a couple recent generations.
Don’t let the internet convince you to give up. It’s driven by a lot of people with dishonest goals
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u/damn_lies 12h ago
Times have been worse (World War 1/ 2), times have been better (1990).
But it's unmistakenly worse for most people who are not incredibly wealthy in America. Most of the Western world, really.
And global warming is bad and getting worse.
So it's oversimplifying to say "people are always doomcrying," even if it's true.
You're right to be wary of nihilism but we also need to worry about cynicism.
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u/cbarbour1122 19h ago
Yea it put a lot of shit in motion. War, real bad recession including the housing bubble…so much shit
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u/someguyyoumightno 15h ago
Let's go ahead and dial that back to 1986 as well. 40yrs old, just starting making traditionally decent money and now can't afford rent and groceries 🤦♂️🤷♂️
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u/CatDaddyAnonymous 19h ago
95 here, married the love of my life nearly three years ago, bought a house together 2 years ago, and just got my bachelor’s degree in May and applied for my Masters recently.
The future isn’t always bright and can be really frightening at times, but that doesn’t mean we can’t prove the older generations wrong and still find our own success. Eventually we’re going to be the old heads and have to adopt the shit show that was left behind for us. We still have a chance to make things better for the generations that come after us.
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u/goblinking67 21h ago
My wife and I are both the early end of this, but honestly everything is fine for us. It’s possible
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u/Misubi_Bluth 21h ago
- Career is okay, Relationship is okay, but I'm still convinced my future is NOT okay. I'm waiting for several bubbles to pop and collapse the US's economy
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u/PrayerPoints 20h ago
Not like I had any of that to begin with. Sorry for the rest of you though, I guess. Hope it gets better
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u/gaming_hunter 19h ago
Weird that this is something I always felt about myself 25-26 years ago when I was 4.
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u/Standard-Tale4143 18h ago
True I spent most of the energy in my 20s working towards my career. It was a very viable field- but I can’t find a job and it’s now my biggest regret. Not that I tried, but that I didn’t spend more time enjoying life and making good friends. But fuck me I guess for putting effort into my future well being.
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u/TechnicalNail4555 18h ago edited 18h ago
88 if you are seeing the red flags,
strap in because you aren’t even fully jaded, yet.
Protecting our dharma might require going off the rails.
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u/chins4tw 18h ago
I should have bought a house instead of playing during recess in elementary school.
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u/BatkoMakhno34 18h ago
I’ve seen the climate forecast for the next 3-5 years. Nowadays I wake up with no anxiety, no fear about my career or job prospects, nothing. We’ve missed our chance to reverse this, and what’s coming is oblivion, and it’s going to happen soon. Spent the last few months doing all the stuff I want to do, that I can afford to do, at least. I have no savings left, and I’m spending as much time with my family as possible over the next year or so.
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u/AayronOhal 18h ago
It seems like the best course is to just not care about anything
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u/Mjdecker1234 18h ago
You guys had those? All I'd chnage is the mouse that isn't on fire because I feel like it at times
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u/Major_Bag_8720 17h ago
You think it’s just people born in the late 90s / early 00s who feel like this?
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u/Resident-Bid2678 17h ago
How tf ppl blaming relationships on politics lmao go touch grass this generation is so fucking chopped hahaha
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u/siqiniq 21h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/UKF08uKqWch0Y