SekrayrayIt Sucks to Be 33--Millenials born in 1990-91 have objectively had to compete harder for everything
As a 31-year-old, I thankfully missed the window and have had it super easy this whole time.
As a 41yo elder millenial, it’s been nothing but smooth sailing for me, obviously!
sgibson5150laughs in GenX from atop my giant pile of gold
Lucky. I’m 32, and let me tell you, you had it waaay easier. Back in my day…
DeceptichumI had it to so easy back in the day, hardest choice was which power ranger I wanted to grow up to be.
luckily I was born a year early. my slightly younger friends had so much more shit to deal with.
“I am very privileged, but in another generation, I could have been even more privileged. Others of my age cannot even buy houses, do you think this is normal?”
I mean, I know exactly what she’s talking about since I’m in the same age group. But have you ever considered that the reason is not us being underprivileged but rather our boomer parents being ridiculously overprivileged?
I’m 36, and took a few years off college before getting my degree. I’m basically a part of this group.
Graduated in 2011 in a terrible economy.
Interview against people with 10 years experience for entry level roles, get rejected multiple times,
Have to work retail 2 more years after college til I finally get a desk job with shit pay
Do that 2 years til I get another slightly better job with slightly less shit pay
Do that a few years, get promoted, start making real money. Guess what? Now houses are double what they were 5 years ago
Ok well I guess I’ll just save
Hey here’s a once in a lifetime pandemic
Rates are low, and houses slightly more affordable, but who tf knows if you’re going to be employed in a year. Maybe I’ll wait that out n see
Now houses more expensive because every boomer and corporation wanted to buy investment homes at those rates.
Well fuck, I guess I’ll wait n see if rising interest rates drop the home prices. Nope, fuck u specifically raiderkev, now price is the same, and rates are doubled.
Sick of the fucking struggle and goalposts moving.
Similar situation. I’m 40 tomorrow and graduated college in 2013. I’ve gotten really lucky until now when I got laid off in December. My first job out of college was $35k. I doubled that in 4 years, and ended up at 105k the last two years.
Now I’m in the situation you were in in 2011. It’s a bitch out there.
Could have been born in 1890-91, I’m sure those people had it great
Great grandpa had it easy! WWI, the Spanish Flu, and the Great Depression were cake compared to today
The AssmanThere’s also the recessions, wars, and plagues. The world hasn’t chilled the fuck out since we were ten.
Not trying to invalidate your feelings, but all those things have happened repeatedly for millennia and were much more severe before now
It sucked to be 33 back then too
Sorry you’re getting downvoted.
It’s a good point, but I think it gets lost to most by comparison of the immediately preceding decades. The period from 1950-2000 represented unprecedented opportunity and calm to most white people in America. Things getting back to “how it was before” makes everyone feel like the world has gone shitty.
My wife and I talk about this now and again in reference to our Boomer parents. They try to act like they had it hard, but when we reflect on the global catastrophes we’ve had to weather as young adults (ones that have had real personal implications) it turns out our Boomer parents are the real “Summer children.”
Boomers did have the Vietnam War, where almost 60K Americans were killed, hundreds of thousands were wounded, and millions of Boomers were drafted to go to war. By comparison, over the entire 20 year war in Afghanistan, 2.4K Americans were killed, and our military was all volunteer. Over the 70s-80s there were also multiple pretty bad recessions and some inflation rates that rivaled 2023, and the oil embargo in the 70s had transportation at a standstill. The HIV epidemic killed thousands in the 80s, and per capita deaths for many major diseases, were significantly higher than today. Back in the 70s and 80s, automobile accident deaths and violent crime rates were also significantly higher than today. For Boomers as kids through young adults, measles was common, with hundreds of thousands of cases per year and high rates of death or permanent disability.
And these were just some of the bad things that happened during a period of relative peace and prosperity. All this to say we should always fight to improve our society, and don’t just blindly accept bad things as inevitable or insurmountable. The past just wasn’t all sunshine and roses, and people really need to get over that.
MamboGator“Millennials have had it rough, but you know who really had it rough? A smaller subset of millennials!”
I’m sick of my generation.
"Millennials between 1990 and 1991 had it rough, sure. But you know who has it even worse? Those born between 4:16am June 12 1990 and 3:54pm September 26 1990! You don’t even know how bad they have it!
Don’t forget the ones born in that timeframe whose favorite color is blue. That’s the subset you really have to feel bad for…
It’s an article from the NY times that’s just trying to pit us against each other. NY Times contains a lot of propaganda
You’d think participating in the propaganda campaign for the Iraq war and the Valery Plame incident would’ve nailed their coffin shut, but here we are today, with those same assholes doing what they do best.
That’s the danger of propaganda, only thinking it happens to others or in autocratic countries. No one is immune…
circuitfarmerSuch a weird gatekeepy headline. I’d argue it’s virtually anyone born around 1980.
Sterile_TechniqueYeah this definitely comes across as trying to pitch younger folks against eachother.
Eat the rich, not your peers.
Really good point
When I look at what I paid for my college degree in comparison to what people a decade younger than me are paying, yeah, I get it.
A student living on-campus at my alma mater is paying more for one year of school than I did for all four of them.
They got screwed. They really did, and the steadfast refusal of voters in this country to never change their team colors under any circumstances means it’s never going to change.