“inject themselves and they shouldn’t”

i’m inspired by your courage and bravery

I see Generation X try to inject themselves into the conversation

This does not sound like the GenX I’m familiar with.

Remember, this is about classes, not ages. Plenty of Boomers and Gen X have never and will never be able to afford a house. Rich people are causing the current affordability crisis. Get mad at them.

Graduating into the dot com bust sucked, but just in time to buy a house and ride the 2004 bubble. Negative amortization mortgage, baby!

As a Gen-x I worked 2-3 jobs through my 20’s to get by.

So yea, maybe you need to not get your info from Facebook.

Stop using artificial groupings to separate people.

Plenty of old folks who don’t have houses or retirement income, and there are Gen Alpha kids who are going to inherit billions.

Yup. Times were different. Some things were easier, some were harder. Stop crying about it. Make the best of what you’ve got.

Whelp here is a gen xer injecting themselves. Everyone earlier has it better than those after but to say its not far off is well. far off. Even with boomers to some degree. especially if you were a refular person. silent would be better. Silent started with the depression when they were babies and very young and then ww2 had rationing and such but they hit adulthood just as we got to post ww2 whereas the boomers were just being born. greatest generation got the benefits of the depressions social programs but dealt with a lot of the bad times that lead to it. silent started bad but their whole lives basically got better over time. Boomers too but like the youngest silent is just into 80’s so a lot of them clocked out about covid and later. That is some good time to punch the ticket. Older boomers have it better than younger boomers and same with X. Boomers still had a chance of the family with 2.5 kids, free standing house with 2 cars and garage, and either vacation property or enough money to take regular vactaions. X it sorta seemed possible but most could not reach it although if you did well enough and made the right (for their personal enrichment) choices you could come close. Millenial you have to have done exceptionally well. So like Xers that became primary care doctors had that “typical” life. Im not sure what a millenial primary can even do that now. Might have to be a specialist. So to take my personal experience my silent gen parents were single income on a janitor job and had 7 kids, owned the 5 bedroom house we were raised in before they retired with social security, savings, and pension. My boomer elder brother worked the same janitor thing and never married but managed a 3 bedroom place and while smaller still got social security and a pension. I married but had no kids and have a 2 bedroom condo (for now) and am whittling away savings near the end of my career where I will have no pension and a relatively smaller social security. Pretty sure millenials in my (realtive) shoes won’t ever own a place. Who knows maybe will manage an efficiency or with two incomes they might be able to have my relative level. Z even with two incomes I don’t know unless things massively change.

Assuming optimal conditions that may be true, and it does seem that way in retrospect looking back, but as other have said there were a lot of other challenges that you don’t really think about. For myself, I’ve had a lot of struggles with neurodivergence because I was never diagnosed or anything, I just thought I was a weird kid tbh and I guess I wasn’t that different enough and I was good enough at blending in. My story is definitely not atyplical either, a lot of kids on the autism spectrum or with adhd didn’t get the proper treatment and struggled a lot and had a difficult life because of it. That’s just one thing. There were a lot less rights and laws for LGBTQIA+ people as well which is another whole can of worms in itself.

If you look at it purely by the numbers, then sure, I suppose it’s true.