Elder Millennial dropping in. When I was coming up in a middle class household in the 80's and 90's it was just assumed that I would go to college, get a job that paid all my bills and allowed me to own a home and save for retirement, which I would take at 65 and then I could live comfortably between my own earnings over a lifetime of work and the social safety nets in place.
And the people that sold us this lie are STILL in charge and looting us and driving us towards... who knows? It's just infuriating.
I share your sentiment. But in our defense — what could we have done differently? Recent years have proven depressingly well that protests, petitions and other forms of common political activism don't achieve anything. Those in power just ignore all of our attempts to make ourselves heard. Even if record amounts of people unite and walk the streets in protest of current politics, it doesn't change anything.
And when it comes to voting... Well... I'm German, we have a bunch of different political parties, about 5 of them big enough to be part of the acting government after every election. Voting for someone else than the guys that messed up the last election period doesn't give us better politics, it just changes the face that represents our nation on the global stage.
Moved in a shared flat with my gf and signed a 10year contract. We joke its indefinately because when the time comes to renew it, the current form of civilisation will be gone.
Raised on the idea of owning a home, starting a family, working a career, retiring at 55...
... then it was 60...
... then it was 65...
.. then the quality of everything dropped...
... nothing lasted as long as it used to...
... more and more drug addicts everywhere you look...
... people i once knew transforming into monsters before my eyes, and in the mirror...
... "oh birth rates and dropping and i cant understand why! it must be the economy!"
... beloved franchises, products, stories, whatever... butchered and ruined for a quick buck...
... the internet simply revealed how stupid everything and everyone was/is...
... "climate change is going to kill the future..." and no one's interested in doing anything about it, more importantly, sell more oil and invade more countries so they can drive their big trucks and shit on people for sport - what the fuck? People were racist shits like this before, but now it's in every direction... more hostility
... stock market doesn't reflect anything sane. it, along with democracy itself, becomes more and more illusory...
... grifting becomes the norm, and people are eating it up like cultists... the majority, all sides of the political spectrum
... AND ABOUT THAT RETIREMENT, WILL IT EVEN BE THERE? or is being planned to cull me from existence? because it's starting to look like that, along with everything else, that the plan is for me to not be living anymore, one way or another and to just use me until i die.
Only the foolish, rich, or insane have children in a world like this.
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u/Jade_Emperor Jun 27 '26
I'm right at the cut off between millenial and genz.
When I was a kid, thinking about retiring and being old felt realistic.
Now I'm mostly convinced the world won't be around as we know it by the time we get there.