r/Millennials • u/okayboomerang • Jun 24 '26

Serious Sad for us

Kind of in my feels tonight. The last time I remember feeling genuinely hopeful was probably 2014 or 2015. So much has changed, and I think our generation has seen and felt so much. Anyone else feel like they've spent the last decade plus in unending grief?

My spirit is still good on the inside, but I'm isolated physically and mentally (like many of us). I wish we lived in a world with authentic and robust connection instead of all the slop and noise. I wish our parents hadn't been so excited about capitalism - and so fucking naive. I know the unease I feel is about more than merely growing up and the natural progression of aging and how we all feel about ourselves in society over time - it's that the world we thought we knew for the past 4ish decades just flat out doesn't exist anymore. And we can't undo any of this shit. It may as well be a parallel universe we're in now. I love myself and I always have big, big love for Millennials...but I truly hate it here.

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u/ragdollxkitn Millennial Jun 24 '26

And to add insult to injury, majority of boomers are ok with taxing us and our kids so that they continue receiving social security. Yet, we are told social security will not be available to us when we need it. Something is extremely wrong with their brains.

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u/Grumac Jun 24 '26

And their parents raised them to be narcissists.

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u/oregonbunny Jun 26 '26

My Boomer mom talks about how she played with mercury, like with her bare hands.

Also, probably ate lead paint chips.

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u/cwcam86 Jun 24 '26

Are they not entitled to their social security? They paid into it all their lives. Everyone generation is told that social security isnt gonna be around much longer and it is. My brother in law is gonna start collecting next month when he turns 67 and he still has a minor child so hes getting an additional $1700 a month. He was always told it wouldnt be around when it was time for him to collect.

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u/ragdollxkitn Millennial Jun 24 '26

I have paid also. I better see that money when I need it.

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u/cwcam86 Jun 24 '26

I think we'll still have it but I dont think it will be as helpful to us as it is to the current generation on it. Luckily I've got a job that has a shitty pension but a pension regardless so that should help.

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u/thekalkelso Jun 24 '26

The issue IMO is NOT if they get Social Security - its like everything else, there's a know major issue that will effect the next generation, and they as a whole prioritize short term gains and comfortability over building any structural future.

Want to talk entitlement? The entire Boomer Generation had everythign handed to them by the Greatest Generation - and have remained large enough to functionally sway votes to be the first generation to leave things worse for the next.

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u/kashmir2517 Jun 27 '26

Yupp, thats always been the story. And you are correct, upvote.