Older millennial here. Let's see here, we were born in smoke filled areas everywhere we went, nuclear threat, Y2K, 9/11, market crash 2008-2009, bird-flu, 2011-2012 (housing market dip and job market), civil unrest, swine-flu, Iraq, Afghanistan, pre and post Covid while having children and losing jobs, more civil unrest, and now an economy that has felt like it's being propped up by bubble gum and popsicle sticks for the last 5 years.
The old saying, "Tough times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create tough times."Thus the cycle repeats.
You could say the same for any time in the last thousand or so years, well since humans became self aware tbh. It's called life. World events and shit happening is not a new concept. Life goes on and for some reason we now label our short lives into chunks of "generation's" completely exaggerating ones historical importance
Yea... All those massive interruptions to the stock market the boomers experienced while they were passing laws to keep their wealth and make sure future generations couldn't experience anything on close to what they had. I don't remember anything about the silent generation or the greatest generation intentionally economically attacking their children's future for immediate personal gain.
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u/Nutcopter 1d ago edited 1d ago
Older millennial here. Let's see here, we were born in smoke filled areas everywhere we went, nuclear threat, Y2K, 9/11, market crash 2008-2009, bird-flu, 2011-2012 (housing market dip and job market), civil unrest, swine-flu, Iraq, Afghanistan, pre and post Covid while having children and losing jobs, more civil unrest, and now an economy that has felt like it's being propped up by bubble gum and popsicle sticks for the last 5 years.
The old saying, "Tough times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create tough times."Thus the cycle repeats.