dont forget:
housing crisis
fentanyl crisis
destruction of unions
Billionaires purchasing all MSM
Destruction of the internet
Citizens united
Trickle down economics
2 failed invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan
militarization of police
normalization of genocide
Don't forget the return of fascism 😮💨
I'm really getting why "May you live in interesting times" is a curse
2 economic recessions?? If you don't count anything in the 80s or 90s then you at least have:
Dot com bubble
Subprime mortgage crisis
Covid
Whatever you wanna call what's been happening the past 2 to 4 years. I don't care what the stock market says. Working people are experiencing an economic downturn.
2??? WTF
Don't forget Columbine and the birth of 'Zero Tolerance'
Yeah, Y2K was really tough man. Just don't know how I made it.
It's worse for us Gen-Xers. We remember living as adults in the time before it all went from kinda shitty to the diarrhea apocalypse.
Don't forget we're hated by baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Z and younger.
We're also expected to keep everything working while also treated like we're the most entitled.
It's 2 pandemies. People like to forget H1N1... & at least 4 recessions since the 90s.. & the rise of Neo-Faschism should definetly be there as well.
Am a millennial.
Okay, so:
Gen Alpha has experienced the pandemic, economic shock and recession around that time, followed by insane inflation, the AI disruption and uncertainty, and climate and extreme weather disruption as well. Not even mentioning wars.
Millennials have all that, and the Great Recession, the dot com crash, I guess we could mention 9/11, but like most people were not directly impacted by that but rather the wars after, the housing affordability crisis, and I dunno, maybe the Super Bowl Timberlake-Jackson incident, sure chuck that in.
Gen X has all that, the savings and loan crisis in the 80s-90s, Black Monday, recessions in the 80s, stagflation in their early adulthood and teen years, oil crises, and fucking Milli Vanilli.
And then Baby Boomers... well... whatever. I'm already tired of doing this. Every generation deals with a lotta shit.
And again we kinda glossed over wars.
Let's have some real fun.
The late Roman "Are We Seriously Doing This Again?" generation born circa 235-260 CE. They experienced the empire nearly falling apart as emperors were replaced like Walmart greeters, a plague to live through, a shit ton of wars and economic debasement along with political instability destroyed any economy they had, foreign invasions were an average Tuesday, and then I think Rome split into basically east and west and the Capitol lost control.
Don't forget the current climate apocalypse. That will literally end everything
Toss in the existential threat of nuclear war and you can include genx
Lol @ Y2K being mentioned on par with all this other shit. Never in life have I experienced such a huge nothing burger.
Don't forget all the forever wars.
Still easier than people born 100 years ago.
Hmm, not a good sign that this meme is being extended every few years...
I was rippin' Rust a few years ago, especially after reading Stephen Markley's The Deluge and having a bit of a breakdown. Then I was
Then the anxiety counter got to 999,999 and ticked back over to 000,000 and broke, so now I'm just sorta
getting more weird and whimsy instead of more anxious.
I don't have any kids of my own. I feel sorry for the other people's kids but I wish them all the best in the cannibal wars to come.
Lol. The worst thing that can happen is war. I will be very grateful if I don't have to endure it in my lifetime.
But burgerstanis surrounded by two oceans are complaining about burgers and gas while sowing death and conflict around the world.
FYI, there's going to be another Y2K.
Millennials didn’t have to do anything or worry about anything at all with Y2K. I’m an older millennial and we were barely of working age.
Can't be. He's smoking.
They took that away from us too.
Not to mention the many "once in a lifetime" nature events that have happened as well.
Like we can afford to smoke.
Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.
Multiple wars + Jan 6
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