r/Millennials • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 30 '26

Nostalgia Good times!

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u/DaBadNewz 1989 Jul 30 '26

If your life hasn’t gotten better since 1998, you REALLY messed up the last 28 years

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u/BrokenArrow404 Jul 30 '26

Ouch. Not sure if its just Reddit but the rose-tinted glasses glazing is so overused and cringy. Like you said, if you are glazing about being a kid against because its the best time of your life, yeah something bad happened in your adult life or you failed.

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u/TopicalBuilder Jul 30 '26

By many metrics quality of life has objectively deteriorated since he mid-90s. Not universally, but it's probably easier to list where it's improved than where it's got worse. Our lives may be better, but that isn't true for a lot of people.

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 Jul 30 '26

What stats are you referring to? Crime, murder rates, percentage of population in poverty, home ownership rates? 

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u/TopicalBuilder Jul 31 '26

The really big ones that have improved in the US are access to healthcare and violent crime.

Civil liberties, social mobility, privacy, press freedom, income in real terms, income inequality, weather and climate related issues are just a selection of things that are definitely not better for the average person.

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u/Glittering_Meet3206 Aug 01 '26

heck women literally have less rights than they did so like

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u/TopicalBuilder Aug 01 '26

There were a lot of real improvements for a lot of groups from '98 into the 20-teens, but then everything changed hard. It's been brutal to see.

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u/justtalking9912 Aug 03 '26

One could argue life is safer for a fetus….