15 years ago this exact comment would have been written swapping out millennials for gen x and gen z for millennials.

GMoromisato 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hey there, early Gen X here. We lived with the existential dread of nuclear war (The Day After traumatized a whole generation), our parents left us on our own with just 3 channels of TV for company because they both had to work, and our sexual awakening turned into a horror movie because of fear of AIDS (a death sentence at the time).

Also, there were no jobs.

	▲	esseph 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And our every moments weren't being tracked by flock cameras or a cell phones. If something embarrassing happened at school, it didn't end up on tiktok. We still thought if we got to college we could get out of that shitty town and have a real grown up job and get a house. That is increasingly out of reach. I haven't even touched on something like 25y of constant combat deployments, or politics yet. Or the environment.

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spoiler 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As a late millennial: yep. We're in the same boat. Nihilistic optimism isn't the worst coping mechanism, though!

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llmslave2 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perhaps. And if it was true back then, it's even more true today.

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nabnob 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everything is noticeably more expensive than it was 15 years ago, though.

	▲	scruple 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but I also make ~6x as much as I did 15 years ago. Despite that I still think everything is too fucking expensive.

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tayo42 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Kind of but 15 years ago if you met online it was an embarrassing thing or something only old people did.

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mkoubaa 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a such a cop-out. We millennials had it easy compared to zoomers.

	▲	McAtNite 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That’s true, graduating into my “once in a lifetime” economic meltdown made the second one barely even register.
	▲	lovich 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I only felt the empathy someone can have when they have also lived through the same events, for all the zoomers graduating into the post Covid job market. Millennials and younger are all fucked for the same reasons and are going to continue getting fucked over unless some revolutionary change happens. We’ll also be in this together as we watch our boomer/genx parents burn up the last of any existing generational wealth sitting comatose in a nursing home because they refused to accept that they will actually die some day, and so made no plans for it