Millennials are anticapitalist for the opposite reason. We DO remember the good old days.

Certainly the 90s were more stable and prosperous for more people than today, but to say those were the good old days means you would have to ignore:

  • Extreme urban decay
  • Unchecked police violence against minorities
  • Vile homophobia in the mainstream and no recognition at all of trans people
  • The rise of commodified suburban housing, stores, and restaurants
  • Our government’s Imperial ambition becoming completely unchecked in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union

There were never good old days.

Violence in general was out of control in the 1980s & 90s where I live, if you look at crime charts you can see a sharp drop since I was growing up here. It used to be ROUGH.