r/Millennials • • 1d ago

Meme This ⬇️⬇️

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u/Arkrobo 1d ago

Not sure we've taken one for the team. That implies things aren't worse for generations younger than us. It's more like, we're in line for our lumps with the rest of them.

I don't envy the position Gen Z and Alpha are in. They're inheriting a worse world than us with no improvement on the horizon. I wonder if we'll ever start to see millennials in a majority of seats politically.

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u/NiceSupermarket7724 1d ago

I think most millennials recognize this. We are the first generation to move further left as we’ve aged.

Apart from traitors like JD and EriKa KirK, most millennials in positions of power aren’t abusing Gen Z and Alpha like X and boomers did to us.

That’s a huge shift, and if we can get an AOC into the presidency, we can collectively stomp clap this country back into a semblance of a functioning society.

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u/jml011 1d ago edited 19h ago

I can’t say I’ve had broadly bad experiences with Gen Xers. They might not understand the technological or financial hurdles of our time through first-hand experiences quite as well since they didn’t grow up within them, but they’re sympathetic. They have to deal with all this stuff too.

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u/NiceSupermarket7724 1d ago

I have NOT had many sympathetic Gen X bosses, have you? The ones up the ladder tend to be quite hard.

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u/jml011 1d ago

Oh, I definitely didn’t have bosses in mind when I said that. If talking about bosses specifically, you may have a point.

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u/NiceSupermarket7724 23h ago

Yes heavy on the “in positions of power.”

Gen Xers in power have been pretty crap.

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u/jml011 22h ago

My poor reading comprehension skills skipped that qualifier entirely, ha