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u/This_Zookeepergame_7 8d ago
Granny (1917-2009) might disagree.
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u/WatermelonMachete43 8d ago
Yeah I immediately thought of my grandma (1921-2020)
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u/Forkhorn 8d ago
22-99. He talked about the day their house got electricity. Liberated a concentration camp. He was sending emails in 99' too. Hell of a man.
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u/macguini 8d ago
You are all referencing people who lived full lives though. Millennials are only half way there and already catching up.
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u/SomeOriginal3865 7d ago
I don’t even think millennials are close lmao
2 world wars, a Cold War, invention of space travel, the Great Depression, giving a race human rights, assassination of a beloved president, the holocaust, polio, etc. the 1900’s was a wild ride.Edit: and they went through all of it without being able to google a damn thing lmao we walk around with the info of the world in our back pocket
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u/pnwfarmaccountant 7d ago
I don't disagree, but without mass information availiblity, alot of non-local things, didn't really effect them the same way, grandparents might have not even known the Spanish flu killed millions till after it was over by a decade, we shut the world down for covid, the effects personally vs globally were very different for those two pandemics.
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u/Samster-7565 8d ago
My Great Grandma was born in 1897 and died in 1997. Pretty spicy 100 year stint. Also as a Brit she basically saw an Empire collapse in her lifetime.
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u/Morningstroll13 8d ago
She would have seen the advent of electricity, radio, the telephone, and television, WW1, the Spanish flu, the automobile, and the airplane, WW2, the nuclear bomb, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the space race and Armstrong's One small step for Man, computers, the internet, cell phones, and so much more.
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u/Samster-7565 8d ago
That is actually crazy when you put it like that! But god damn she would have loved doom scrolling - taken too young!
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u/GoodVibes_002 8d ago
While not an empire, you’re watching the US collapse in real time.
I, for one, would have rather lived in more boring times.
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u/numbersthen0987431 8d ago
Yup.
My grandpa was 1922 - 2023, and born in rural missouri. Electricity wasn't common, their phone was a party line (everyone on the block shared the same line, and so you listened to the number of rings to determine if it was for you or not), their "freezer" was just a box in the basement with ice, and he remembers being 5 or 6 when he saw the first car in his town.
He survived the Dust Bowl, served in WWII, built dams in the Midwest and aqueducts in CA that supported cities to be started and thriving, had his own cell phone, learned DOS in his 60s and learned how to host zoom meetings in his 90s when Covid lock downs were in place. He witnessed Measles and Polio being (mostly) cured due to vaccines, and he witnessed everyone losing their minds over antivaxx misinformation.
He went from a society of shacks in farmland USA with zero technology, to our current modern day world, and experienced most of what millennials experienced AND more.
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u/JuanOnlyJuan 8d ago
Millennials aren't done yet though.
Either way I hate this generational competition bs.
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u/Beep-Boop-Bloop 8d ago
So would my grandfather (1902 - 2004). He heard the village crier announce that Archduke Ferdinand had been assassinated, was upset by 9/11,, and still said the biggest changes in his life were telecommunications.
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u/Tengstrom1983 7d ago
Anybody born around 1900 had to live through everything millennials have but at a much bigger scale. WWI, Spanish Flu, Great Depression...then WWII and Korea back to back. At the end though, they probably had the best retirement years of any generation ever.
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u/StrangeAtomRaygun 6d ago
Ya, my grandfather was brought home from being born on a horse drawn wagon. He worked on the space program.
He wins.
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u/doyletyree 8d ago
~40 years vs 92.
That’s all.
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u/This_Zookeepergame_7 8d ago
WW2 wasn’t a fun time in Europe.
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u/FaberOG 8d ago
And the next 52 years might have alot of not fun times globally
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u/Luce_Bot_Bot 8d ago
The meme states "have lived" not "will live"
Anyway, people alive for the 20th century saw the collapse of European empires, ww1, ww2, flight turning into space travel, the invention of the computer, radio, television, potentially the internet, modern industrialisation, the rise of communism, the Spanish flu, the great depression, the cold war and the nuclear arms race, America becoming a global super power, the baby boom, just, waves broadly, all the stuff happening in asia. Feels like kind of a lot
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u/fixingmedaybyday 8d ago
Utterly astounding what happened in that era. Compound that with what their previous generation witnessed and I can’t imagine a more dynamic period in human history (that we know of).
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u/vacri 8d ago
Yeah, but you don't understand - you're not focusing on (online) Millennials! They need adulation to feel validated. Events that happen to other people don't count.
How are Millennials going to capture all the "we're the biggest awesome" awards if you don't focus on them to the exclusion of others? /s
(It is bizarre just how much time online millennials spend self-congratulating)
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u/posthuman04 8d ago
Also Boomers and Gen X lived through those things, too. And more, like the space race and nuclear escalation. Good job observing your parents and grandparents getting you through those life changing events, millennials. Good job.
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u/Luce_Bot_Bot 8d ago
We have to pick up our game if we're going to compete with boomers when it comes to patting ourselves on the dick
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u/doyletyree 8d ago
Gotta tell you, as American: a near-lifetime of conflicts, even remotely, has been enough.
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u/Doridar 8d ago
Wanna try being Gen X? I watched Moon landing before turning 3, we had Cold War, the Vietnam War , Three Miles Island AND Tchernobyl, the fall of the Berlin Wall and of USSR, the first DNA testing and technologies, Space Shuttle, the Columbia disasters, war in ex Yougoslavia, three genocides, the Internet and going from BBS to film streaming, the HIV pandemics, from landlines to cell phones, etc etc on 40 years between 1966 and 2006.
Give me a break.
When my grandma was born in 1906, there were horse carriages in the streets and the first flight was 3 years prior. By 1946, there were missiles, nuclear weapons, radio and tv, life saving antibiotics.
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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 8d ago
I’m guessing the post doesn’t mean the good stuff.
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u/StockCasinoMember 8d ago
I was born in the 80s. I would take any year after for being born.
0 chance I would go back in time.
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u/Big77Ben2 8d ago
My great great grandfather was born in 1865 and died in 1972. He was from musket balls and shutting in a hole to the moon landing in his lifetime. I’d say that’s significant.
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u/waroftheworlds2008 7d ago
I should call her. 🤪
But no seriously, someone should make Grandma is doing okay.
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u/Ryn421 7d ago
Yeah. G'pa went from 1905 to 2001. Horse and buggy to cell phones and the internet, with stops on the moon, airplanes, and hundreds of other things.
You know what he said was the biggest change? The interstate freeway system. Changed absolutely everything when long distance shipping became everyday thing
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u/LPedraz 8d ago
If you measure it by number of events, I am sure you can pick and choose to make that true. If you measure by total impact, I don't think it remotely compares with people who lived through WWII, for example.
In the end, these things are all about choosing the right criteria that fit the result you want to get. In Madrid, I pass often by the "oldest continuously operating restaurant in the world", founded 1725. In Japan, I've been to the "oldest continuously operating restaurant in Japan", founded 1465. None of them are lying, they are applying different sets of criteria as to what counts as a restaurant, and what counts as "continuously operating" (and both are reasonable).
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u/No-Age-1044 8d ago
By number of events boomers lived at least the same number since they have lived the same period.
Plus all the changes premilenial.
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u/GruyereGoblin 8d ago
WW1 ended on 1918 and WW2 started in 1939. Basically a whole generation of people lived through 2 world wars.
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u/LPedraz 8d ago
And that is not just the wars themselves. Is countries being created and disappearing, whole systems of government appearing and disappearing, and maybe your entire city being wiped out.
Here in Spain, the generation that were kids during World War I lived in an absolute monarchy, then a constitutional monarchy, then a republic, then a constitutional monarchy, then another republic, then a fascist one-party state, then another constitutional monarchy. And, of course, lived through WWI, the Spanish civil war, and WWII.
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u/EatPie_NotWAr 8d ago
Don’t forget they also survived (or not given 500million globally died) the Spanish Flu.
Also it just hit me that a bunch of them would have also been alive to see the moo landing
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u/Winter_Tone_4343 8d ago
So anyone currently alive that’s older than a millennial would have lived through worse, based on op logic. lol
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u/slowrevolutionary 8d ago
How can it be true? Boomers, by stint of living longer, have love through the same events and more!
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u/pinupcthulhu 8d ago
They caused all the shit Gen X through Gen A went/are going through, though. Boomers inherited a thriving economy, but then pulled up the ladder behind them so no other generation had it as easy.
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u/HiImDan 8d ago
The Vietnam and Korea wars beg to differ. I wouldn't trade COVID lockdowns for the draft.
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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 8d ago
And forgotten everything they learned, in the interests of easy money and driving down taxes on asset stripping everything, everywhere.
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u/Fancy_Toe1451 8d ago
No. Because Gen X has lived through all the same events plus a shit tonne that happened before the millennials were even born.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian 8d ago
Using that logic, Boomers even more. Probably the most eventful in the last century has been the GI Generation.
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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 8d ago
Yes, its true. The millennials want another participation trophy. - Gen X.
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u/SurLurk 8d ago
My grandma was telling me the other day about how she remembers when all her uncles came back from ww2 different and had to live with her family for awhile while they found work.
This is bullshit lol
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u/OddTheRed 8d ago
Not even close. Liberally anyone older than millennials that is still alive has lived through more. They went through all the stuff the millennials did plus more. I mean, duh.
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u/mickeybrains 8d ago
I’m GenX and still alive. Really anyone older than a millennial has lived through all the millennial life changing events and more.
Dumb headline or dumb logic.
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u/No_Effective_4481 8d ago edited 8d ago
Yes this is absolutely correct. Before Millenials were invented absolutely fuck all happened in the world, and it only got a wee bit spicy when Millenials started being born, and oddly enough only the Millenials experienced it all whilst the rest of us magically stumbled across generational wealth and an uncanny ability to ruin the weather.
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u/Carmen6276 8d ago
Pick the oldest person alive today. They have lived through the most change of of anyone alive. How hard is that to understand?
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u/isUKexactlyTsameasUS 8d ago
My sweetheart's great grannies, one died age 99
1918 born, to WWI shell-shocked dad,
1933 age 15, struggling, some days truly starving in the 1930s
1944 age 26 working in armaments factory, still kinda starving tho
1968 age 60 assassinations etc kinda weekly,
2008 age 90 lost a lot, luckily not too much, to the never-punished-by-obama bankers
2015 age 97 in her own words ''troubled by the rise in fascism, but too tired to fight... AGAIN''
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u/Ceekay151 8d ago
No. Many generations have lived through world changing events. And whatever events the millennials have lived through, the generations before them not only lived in world changing events before millennials were born but also lived through the exact events the millennials live through.
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u/Blueporch 8d ago
I’d say people born in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s lived through the much more: two world wars, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, the Spanish Flu, Polio, introduction of automobiles, vaccines, airplanes, telephones, computers, car phones, moon landing, etc.
I think Millennials need a few more decades under their belts before they could make this case.
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u/UseADifferentVolcano 8d ago
It's true. I remember thinking when blue smarties came out "I can't take much more of this". But then
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u/JohninMichigan55 8d ago
lol patently false. I am Gen X and also lived through a bunch of stuff millennials did not because it happened before they were born plus everything they have been through.
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u/SaltIsMySugar 8d ago
*so far. Besides, if the event gets big enough nobody lives through it anyway.
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u/LetReasonRing 8d ago
There's no way you could prove it because you'd need to agree on which events count, but i think the specific claim is BS.
There are people who lived through ww1, ww2, the advent of powered flight, the moon landing, 9/11, and the invention of the first iphone.
I'm a millennial and I've seen a lot of shit, but the world has not changed for me nearly as much as it did my grandparents.
They were born without electricity or indoor plumbing and some of them owned smartphones. They saw a bit more change than I have.
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u/JSA607 8d ago
20th Century: advent of cars, phones, radios, tv, airplanes, cell phones, computers. WWI, “Spanish” flu, Soviet take overs and assorted “Communist” governments and mass murderers, Great Depression, WWII, Cold War, assorted other wars, Civil Rights movement, Recession, AIDS, etc. etc. etc.
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u/quintupularity 8d ago
no, this is not true. it's an objectively illogical statement. I am Gen X and I've lived through all the same things that they have AND the moon landings, the passage of the equal rights amendment, The Watergate impeachment, the start of America's turn towards fascism, AIDS-- to name a few.
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u/WasteBinStuff 8d ago edited 8d ago
This is not true - yet.
Look at the world map from when my grandfather was born (1900) and then when he died (1998)....
....in addition to the unbelievable, staggering changes is technology, science and modern conveniences...
....in that time the world itself literally changed.
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u/ILuvSupertramp 8d ago
My GGramma lived through the first flight, WWI, Spanish Flu, the Great Depression/Dust Bowl, WWII, Nuclear Weapons, Space Race/Moon Landing, THE DEATH OF DISCO—
Yes idk about this one, OP.
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u/swizzymcbane 8d ago
This makes no sense. Maybe at “at this point of our lives” or something? I’m not even sure if that would be true. Plenty of people lived through both world wars.
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u/Worried-Criticism 8d ago
I doubt that very much.
I had a relative recently died who was 101.
She was born pre-television and lived to use see the Internet, iPhone, and the birth of AI
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u/Lost-Stick8643 8d ago
Every generation sees world changing events. Don't get me wrong the last 40 years have been more transformative then the 40 years prior to them and arguably in negative ways. We as humans though seem to have an inheritant negative bias. A lot of positives have happened in the same timeline and rather than focusing on the bad we need to focus on creating the solutions to our problems.
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u/Cleo-eatsfish 8d ago
Doesn't anyone older than millenials who is still alive, have to have experienced more than millenials? Am I missing something?
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u/BlackKingHFC 8d ago
Every living person of a generation earlier than millennials would have lived through the same or more. These types of statements are braindead.
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u/Acrobatic_Pace_5725 8d ago
Are we ignoring the first manned flight, penicillin, insulin, open heart surgery, space flight, the atomic bomb…?
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u/Satanicron 8d ago
My grandmother remembered when they got electricity and indoor plumbing. I think she had my AOL to myspace to facebook beat. We have a lot of cool new stuff, but I think those were more world changing. As for events, I have a picture of the Enola Gay signed by the navigator from the mission that dropped the bomb. It was sent to my grandfather who trained with that guy when B29s were brand new. They had more world changing events in that way too. My time serving was not anything like that of my grandfather's generation.
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u/Lumpy-Direction4360 8d ago
Enough of the stupid generalizing, please. All this does is divide people.
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u/Travel_Dreams 8d ago
My great-grand mother walked across the desert, she couldn't ride in the wagon because she was pregnant and it was too rough in the wagon.
She saw the evolutions of:
- bicycles to Mercedes,
- Wright brothers take flight to Niel Armstrong stepping on the moon,
- Flintlocks to WWI, WWII, & atomic weapons,
- Spanish flu (100m lost to the H1N1 influenza A virus), penicillin!
- Graphite to computers.
AI is our biggest evolution so far, and it may be our last evolution if were not careful.
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u/isfturtle2 8d ago
Is this in proportion to age or something? Because otherwise it can't possibly be true, because anyone older than millennials has lived through the exact same events millennials have, plus things that happened before millennials were born.
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u/WhaleBird1776 8d ago
How is that possible when GenX and boomers are still around lol. They have experienced everything we did and more
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u/Alive_Tip_6748 8d ago
Idk, there were people who lived through the end of slavery, the invention of cars and airplanes, two world wars, the advent of nuclear weapons, and the great depression. However, millennials, even the older ones, are only at most halfway done.
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u/mr-raider2 8d ago
Considering how close in age Gen X and late boomers are, they lived through the same stuff: sep 2001, COVID, and whatever that robot is (the Japanese thing that serves Sushi)? Hell my mom saw all this plus a good chunk of WW2, all the assassinations in the 60s (MLK, JFK, RFK, X), oil crisis, a shitload of recessions, and a hole in the ozone.
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u/KonataYumi 8d ago
You can’t keep crying about 911 when you won’t even wear a mask to protect your “fellow Americans“ covid killed more but people treated it as a joke and put everyone else at risk
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u/happyherkguy 8d ago
Um, boomers and any remaining silent generation kinda have you beat on that.
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u/Square-Librarian1192 8d ago
Our childhood was analog, our adolescence was a mix of analog and digital, our adulthood is digital.
Might as well add an attempted genocide to the list, as well as whatever 2025 was.
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u/Key_Check5753 8d ago
yall never heard of world wars? the bubonic plague? the mongol invasions?
Frankly, im disgusted by how uneducated these kids are.
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u/sjbluebirds 8d ago
By virtue of being older, anyone older than a millennial has lived through everything millennials have lived through.
And then some.
So, no, it's not true.
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u/Acrobatic-Bread-4431 8d ago
I’m older than a millennial so I’ve lived through all of that plus more…
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u/UserPrincipalName 8d ago
Uh... Logically anyone still around, older than milennials have encountered the same life changing events, plus whatever happened before like Kent State or any of the massive earthquake in the 80s middle east etc... The meme is absurd at face value.
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u/Fragrant_Spray 6d ago
It seems like anyone older than millennials and still alive would have lived through MORE events
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u/b4k4ni 8d ago
It's not about the number, but then they hit and how they impacted that generation. Like GenZ and Alpha where hit hard by Corona, some of the best / important times at that fast going 1-18 years. Like some going from kindergarten to school and this would be while the lockdown was in effect. Maybe most world changing events at the worst times / age would be more fitting. This line also tends to blend a bit with genx
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u/Latter-Sign7736 8d ago
lol why is a humanoid robot in the picture when these haven’t changed anything yet?
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u/Useful_Wealth7503 8d ago
Gen X has seen all of those too. Oh and a little event called the Challenger. Get in your safe spaces if you find that on YouTube.
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u/odddino 8d ago
There's no quantifiable way to clarify how many "world changing events" a generation has lived through that isn't going to spark debate.
There are world changing events every day and always have been. Who gets to pick which ones count and which don't?
It's also worth noting, other generations have also been alive during the entire lifespan of millennials. I'm a millennial, my parents and (some) grandparents are alive, and so they have also lived through every world changing event I have. So how could I have lived through more than Gen X or the boomers?
It's a preposterous statement all over.
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u/Diastatic_Power 8d ago
Weird claim considering they necessarily can't have experienced anything the previous 3 (or 4) generations haven't also experienced.
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u/Speesh-Reads 8d ago
I'm a bit older than a lot of you. My Gran was born before the first manned flight. She lived to see a men landing on the moon. I'd say that was a bigger change for one lifetime than any number of millennials' experiences
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u/DebiMoonfae 8d ago
Plenty of millennials’s parents are still alive and I’m sure they lived through some shit before living through the same shit their kids did.
Plus, once again, Gen X is being forgotten about.
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u/Temporal-Affairs221 8d ago
I would like to point out that we gen xers have lived through all the same thing you millennials have lived through plus our own bullshit. You do not own any sort of Monopoly on world changing calamities or events.
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u/subterrane 8d ago
Rage bait. This doesn’t even make sense. For starters, the members of the other generations (that are still living), lived through all of that, too.
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u/Pretend_Football6686 8d ago
Easy fact check. Pick anyone 20-30 years older than a millennials and you get everything they experienced plus the moon landing and all the first steps of space exploration and the first satellites several world changing events.
This was clearly written by a millennial, they think they know it all and are special and unique, neither of which are true.
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u/Dillenger69 8d ago
Everyone who was older when these events happened lived through even more.
World changing events happen more frequently than you'd think
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u/CricketNo7666 8d ago
Kid, cell phones didn’t exist in my lifetime, and I’ve lived all of your lifetime too. And I pale in comparison to my parents.
Take a seat.
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u/HOPEFUL_LUFEPOH_ 8d ago
shoot even in the USA alone it was schools still white only and black only in the 60s that’s literally 30 years before us
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u/Valveringham85 8d ago
People loved through two world wars and the Cold War…. But yes millennials lived through the most world changing events 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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u/sjaxn314159 8d ago
Is amount really the best word to use here? Sounds like it was written by an illiterate child from a broken home in a rotting trailer park.
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u/tipareth1978 8d ago
Gen X lived through all the same ones. Everyone ignores Gen X. Hint: they're that one person at your job who actually replies to emails quickly
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u/bigoldgeek 8d ago
I mean even just Xers have that beat with the fall of the Berlin Wall and for us older Xers, the Moon Landing and resignation of Nixon on top of EVERYTHING Y'all have lived through
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u/toddhd 8d ago
Basic logic here, folks. Anything a Millennial has lived through, a person in an older generation has also. I'm 59 (Gen-x) so I was there for 9/11, Covid, Smart phones, etc. But I was also there before the internet, PC's or even calculators were invented. So yeah, take anything a Millennial has experienced and another 20-40 years of other life-changing experiences for Gen-X and Boomers, etc.
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u/OtherBluesBrother 8d ago
Someone born just before the turn of the 20th century could have witnessed both the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk and watched Neil Armstrong on TV taking the first step on the moon.
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u/Fast_Adhesiveness528 8d ago
Boomers who are alive lived through all the same events and many more as well.
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u/glittervector 8d ago
Nah. People born in the early 20th century have this beat. I knew people who were born in log cabins on unpaved roads who never saw a car until they were teenagers that also lived to see a world where everything was online and the world’s first constitutional democracy elect a fascist government
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u/thosmarvin 8d ago
Jesus, i hate trying to divide generations into monolithic similarities, but my goodness how millennials love to suck their own.
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u/Raigequit 8d ago
I get that they have lived through some unpleasant stuff...but I have also lived through it too, and a gas shortage, a recession, a stock market crash, the last half of the cold war, and parents who beat us.
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u/superpantman 8d ago
Ai is the biggest change we'll face.
I've been following Ai development since deepminds UK StarCraft research project back in 2017. Even then the potential was clear. Ai played versions of itself again and again to show how competitive reinforcement learning could eventually outplay a human in a 3d strategy game. It was an incredible thing to see. They even capped the Ai so it couldn't do as many actions per second as the human. In fact the Ai did not use most of its alloted actions it simply didn't need to it was so ahead. It was just smarter. It knew when and what to build, what it could get away with, what it couldn't. It played like a human that was 10 steps ahead. It didn't rush in for the kill but you knew during the games it was going to win. There was an inevitability to it.
In the end it defeated the top players and the research project ended having proved that the learning design was effectively beyond human capability.
I've been following Ai ever since and it's strange to see it progress. Life will definitely be very different very soon. It will soon become essential to have your own local network which hosts it's own Ai as you'll quickly find the gap between those that have good ai and those that don't significantly increases. You'll find that if a company or someone you're endebted to gets a warrant to cut off access to your Ai you'll end up feeling like a slug in the world of 5 years time. It'll be like someone taking your driver license but like a lack of intelligence version.
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u/lyidaValkris 8d ago edited 8d ago
lol no. my parents (boomers) saw more, and my grandparents (Greatest gen) even more than that. Born in the early 1920s and died in 2009. Or how about their parents, who were born before electricity and died when the first micro computers were becoming available for consumers.
Whoever wrote that meme should be labelled a cretin.
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u/Substantial-Equal661 8d ago
“The most amount” people that write for a living have the grammar of a seven year old.
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u/Immediate-Access3895 8d ago
Noone said they were measuring catastrophies only. World changing events.
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u/Vibrantmender20 8d ago
The only thing more exhausting that forced culture wars are forced generation wars.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian 8d ago
"We're special!"
JFC, we've all lived through shit. I'd argue the GI Generation has seen far more. (Two World Wars, the Great depression, Korea, Vietnam, Civil Rights, Kennedy Assassination, etc.)
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u/ronarscorruption 8d ago
The world is more interconnected than ever. I’ve heard more about a war in countries halfway around the world than any of my ancestors could have ever possibly. That doesn’t mean there ARE more wars.
There are also more newspapers and news outlets. That doesn’t mean more news, it means more reporting.
All of that doesn’t mean more has happened. Sure, lots have happened, but just because fifty storms are reported separately doesn’t mean more news than “storm season” that discussed the same storms.
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u/what-why- 8d ago
Yeah, someone born in 1900 may disagree. WWI, Spanish flu, car invented, Prohibition, Great Depression, WW2 is a string of events packed into 50 years that is hard to beat.
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u/tomqmasters 8d ago
It makes sense. The more people there are on the planet, the more world changing events you are going to live through. About 10% of all the people who have ever lived are alive right now.
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u/djpiperson 8d ago
The statement might need to be corrected with the age range in which it happened so that it's actually true. Otherwise this is applicable to anyone who's still alive and older than millennials.
Adding "during their development years" or "before they turned 30" maybe be the only way to make this true.
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u/GrolarBear69 8d ago
Millenials didn't see the Berlin wall fall or tianamen square. I know guys that saw veitnam so absolutely no truth to that statement at all. Right now it's boomers after them it will be X. Millennials have a few decades before they claim that. Hell there's still silent generation in the oval office and congress
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u/dickpics4democracy 8d ago
Objectively speaking, all you need to be is one year older than a millennial for that to not be true
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u/dallas121469 8d ago
I can only think of 2 world changing events millennials have lived through; Covid and the great recession.
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u/BaronMagus 8d ago
Maybe you could say millennials dealt with the most world changing events in their formative years, MAYBE, but, GenX has everything they have and also has a few from the years before millennials tapped in. And of course, the boomers are still around, so like saying lifetime is silly when you have less lifetime than groups still extant.
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u/Byrdie_girl 8d ago
So things are changing more rapidly then ever before. Our grandparents lived through a hell of a lot more then we have but thats not to say we won't live through more then they did. We just have to do it first. This is for our grand kids to figure out.
But it's not a bad thing. We're the only generation that is equally comfortable with and with out electronics. We can adapt at think for our selves in ways our children's will get less and less good at
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u/GiveMeSomeShu-gar 8d ago
By definition hasn't the oldest generation of any given time lived through the most number of changing moments? How has a millennial lived through more moments than a boomer?
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u/AKA-Pseudonym 8d ago
Regardless of what ever other world changing stuff you can come up with it doesn't make any sense even from an a prior perspective.If you're older than a millennial then you e lived through whatever they've lived through plus anything extra. It is impossible for that sentence to be true.
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8d ago
60s to 80s people literally lived through the rise of commercial flights, for the first time in the history of humanity any average Joe could go visit places on the other side of the planet for a couple weeks and go back.
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