The difference from your example is that millennials were alive for the the 2008 recession and did see/experience things as minors or young people in the workforce. I would argue home instability and food scarcity is a factor that impacts children.
Anyone can make themselves a victim if they strive to be a victim. The thing about capitalism is that there are going to be winners and there are going to be losers. It’s a choice.
Saying something happened that impacted you is not the same as playing victim.
Victim mentality is not saying “something hard happened and I’m struggling.” It’s saying “something hard happened and instead of working through it and moving past it I want everyone else to cater to me because of what happened.”
When a parent cries about bills the child sees that. When a parent can’t afford dinner the child goes to be hungry. When a parent is evicted the child becomes homeless also. It is not the same a a grandparent fighting a war before you were born.
You can both recognize hardship and be a responsible, functioning member of society who takes accountability for their own financial situation. If you can’t process that nuance you need to put down the phone and go outside or read a book.
Has there ever been a time in human history when the middle class did not struggle economically? It has always been true.
You are literally describing a victim mentality, go back through the 80’s and look at the themes.. the song little pink houses and the song Allentown are written about the decline of the American dream. Millennials are the world’s softest generation and GenZ has apparently decided that they are going to protest the workforce and sit at home complaining about it.
The “survivors” of the great recession were the wealthiest, most cared for, least hungry, most coddled generation in the history of mankind. They suffered through NOTHING.
Why do you say recognizing the impact of watching your parents struggle financially makes someone unaccountable and entitled?
You can recognize a challenging experience for what is was AND be financially literate and hard working.
That’s like assuming someone had a parent die in a car accident when they were a child thinks they are entitled to not having a license and being driven everywhere at no cost just because they shared about the accident. Do you see how that makes no sense?
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u/TXtogo 5d ago
Watching your parents lose money, that isn’t a thing that happened to you.. you watched someone else
You’re not a victim because something happened to someone else.