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Yeah this definitely comes across as trying to pitch younger folks against eachother.
Eat the rich, not your peers.
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Submitted 8 months ago by Sekrayray@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 8 months ago
MamboGator@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Millennials have had it rough, but you know who really had it rough? A smaller subset of millennials!”
I’m sick of my generation.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
"Millennials between 1990 and 1991 had it rough, sure. But you know who has it even worse? Those born between 4:16am June 12 1990 and 3:54pm September 26 1990! You don’t even know how bad they have it!
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 months ago
It’s an article from the NY times that’s just trying to pit us against each other. NY Times contains a lot of propaganda
meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You’d think participating in the propaganda campaign for the Iraq war and the Valery Plame incident would’ve nailed their coffin shut, but here we are today, with those same assholes doing what they do best.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m 36, and took a few years off college before getting my degree. I’m basically a part of this group.
Graduated in 2011 in a terrible economy.
Interview against people with 10 years experience for entry level roles, get rejected multiple times,
Have to work retail 2 more years after college til I finally get a desk job with shit pay
Do that 2 years til I get another slightly better job with slightly less shit pay
Do that a few years, get promoted, start making real money. Guess what? Now houses are double what they were 5 years ago
Ok well I guess I’ll just save
Hey here’s a once in a lifetime pandemic
Rates are low, and houses slightly more affordable, but who tf knows if you’re going to be employed in a year. Maybe I’ll wait that out n see
Now houses more expensive because every boomer and corporation wanted to buy investment homes at those rates.
Well fuck, I guess I’ll wait n see if rising interest rates drop the home prices. Nope, fuck u specifically raiderkev, now price is the same, and rates are doubled.
Sick of the fucking struggle and goalposts moving.
june@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Similar situation. I’m 40 tomorrow and graduated college in 2013. I’ve gotten really lucky until now when I got laid off in December. My first job out of college was $35k. I doubled that in 4 years, and ended up at 105k the last two years.
Now I’m in the situation you were in in 2011. It’s a bitch out there.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Such a weird gatekeepy headline. I’d argue it’s virtually anyone born around 1980.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When I look at what I paid for my college degree in comparison to what people a decade younger than me are paying, yeah, I get it.
A student living on-campus at my alma mater is paying more for one year of school than I did for all four of them.
They got screwed. They really did, and the steadfast refusal of voters in this country to never change their team colors under any circumstances means it’s never going to change.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There’s also the recessions, wars, and plagues. The world hasn’t chilled the fuck out since we were ten.
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Not trying to invalidate your feelings, but all those things have happened repeatedly for millennia and were much more severe before now
Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It sucked to be 33 back then too
occhineri@feddit.de 8 months ago
“I am very privileged, but in another generation, I could have been even more privileged. Others of my age cannot even buy houses, do you think this is normal?”
occhineri@feddit.de 8 months ago
I mean, I know exactly what she’s talking about since I’m in the same age group. But have you ever considered that the reason is not us being underprivileged but rather our boomer parents being ridiculously overprivileged?
AnomalousBit@programming.dev 8 months ago
Could have been born in 1890-91, I’m sure those people had it great
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Great grandpa had it easy! WWI, the Spanish Flu, and the Great Depression were cake compared to today
otacon239@feddit.de 8 months ago
As a 31-year-old, I thankfully missed the window and have had it super easy this whole time.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a 41yo elder millenial, it’s been nothing but smooth sailing for me, obviously!
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
laughs in GenX from atop my giant pile of gold
Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lucky. I’m 32, and let me tell you, you had it waaay easier. Back in my day…
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I had it to so easy back in the day, hardest choice was which power ranger I wanted to grow up to be.
Sekrayray@lemmy.world 8 months ago
🤣
lemminger@lemm.ee 8 months ago
luckily I was born a year early. my slightly younger friends had so much more shit to deal with.