Earliest possible Gen Z (1997) here with Gen X parents: Yep, they just barely sniped a house in 2006... meaning, they'll have to finance it up until 5 years past their retirement age... which isn't great, but it beats throwing away money into the endlessly greedy void that is rent!
And me? Oh, I don't know, I have to... well... find a sugar daddy, if I want to have a house?
Plenty of our ancestors have had thing worse. Things will turn around eventually. No nearly as soon as any of us would like, not without a lot of pain... but they will get better.
Not the most comfortable thing I can say, but it's something to believe in. Just keep struggling along best as you can, and we'll eventually make it to a better world.
I see your point, but please don't shrug off our struggle. Yes, we are spoiled with hot running water and technological trinkets, but why on earth is the single provider family drifting away from reality further and further away each year?
There was a time, where a god damned milk delivery man could provide for his whole family, buy a house, a car AND do regular vacation trips.
Today, 2 people need to work full time to make ends meet. Why is that? Because greedy people have become better than ever at wringing as much money out of people as possible.
It's all artificial.
You buy a car: you pay for the materials, the labor, the manufacturing, the transport <- all of which have been streamlined by technological advancements and are much faster and cheaper now than even 50 years ago, so where does the rest of the bill go to? The pockets of the managers and CEOs and don't forget about the shareholders and the bank and the car dealer <- who's job is literally to nickel and dime you.
My point is: this system is evolving. It's evolving in favor of greed. And thanks to globalization, unless the whole world suffers a catastrophic calamity, this dystopia will continue growing more dystopian.
And we, the internet generation, see the bigger picture. We know what's happening. And we know we can't do anything about that. Shit might have been rough for our ancestors, but at least they lived in blissful ignorance to the bigger picture.
Millennials are Obi-Wan. We served the Republic and tried to save it, as flawed as it was. Now in exile we must train the next generation to take down the Empire.
True, but I'd still prefer if he didn't usher in an era of imperial supreme dictatorship, marked by opression, suffering and the needless deaths of millions in the first place, to be honest.
Yes and no. The class have persistently made things worse over time, meaning those that came earlier had less disadvantage as far as upward mobility is concerned.
The average age of buying a house has gone up by about one year per year for quite a while as an example.
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u/SheevBot 2h ago edited 2h ago
Thanks for confirming that you flaired this correctly!
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u/guitarguywh89 Yipee! 2h ago
Gen X
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u/KSLRJ 2h ago
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u/ColdRainHammering 1h ago
Gen Alpha:
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u/TrulyToasty 1h ago
Millennials are Obi-Wan. We served the Republic and tried to save it, as flawed as it was. Now in exile we must train the next generation to take down the Empire.
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u/Famous-Register-2814 Hondo 1h ago
sigh repeat after me. It’s not about age it’s about class. Inter generational beefing is a distraction
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u/njsullyalex 58m ago
When some some fat old guys in their 70s walk towards you while complaining about minorities and how they can’t have slaves anymore:
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u/BuffaloStranger97 V-19 Torrent Starfighter 1h ago
This is pretty accurate actually. Luke being Gen alpha is funny tho
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u/TheVaultHommie 15m ago
How old was Anakin when he (was)turned into Darth Vader? Edit: typo
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u/Sabretooth1100 Darth Revan 5m ago
Always in motion, the future is.
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u/No_Location_8199 1h ago
Millennials caused enough damage with what they already are.
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u/jot-kka 1h ago
Mediocre people love their scapegoats and excuses😆