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A generation accustomed to financial challenges is dealing with their recession fears through wry TikToks and by swapping cost-cutting suggestions online.

Millennials are worried they are about to experience a “once-in-a-lifetime” recession. Again.

Dire economic downturns are supposed to be rare, but millennials — defined by the Pew Research Center as those born between 1981 and 1996 — have already had several recessions during formative stages of their lives, from the dot-com bubble burst when most were children, to the Great Recession as they entered the workforce after college, to the Covid-19 pandemic when they were trying to settle into their careers.

Once dubbed the “unluckiest generation,” millennials have postponed major milestones during past recessions. A significant slice of them graduated college between 2007 and 2009 and struggled to find jobs, which led them to delay buying homes, getting married, and making major purchases, such as cars. Then, after the pandemic led to another sharp recession, some millennials, contending with student loans and rising costs of living, decided to rethink having kids.

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

When the housing crisis occured I remember having to find a job in that market. It took me close to 5 years to "recover". It sets you back when almost everyone you know can't get a job.

This time around there's real talk from industry leaders to just have AI do intelligent work. It does not really matter if they can if the elites just want to burn their money and not pay anyone. The money gets siphoned up not spread around this way. At least it feels like it.

Because of the last couple of world changing events, the family has been getting pretty good at canning, food saving, water saving, and knowing our community. It helped out last two times things went to shit.