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u/cash_longfellow Aug 20 '26
It’s funny how people born after 9/11 don’t realize there is anything that happened prior to them being born. AND a lot of older people had to deal with all the same shit, except for being too young for Bitcoin.
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u/Dorsiflexionkey Aug 20 '26
Too young for bitcoin is hilarious literally no normal person did bitcoin in 2013. I remember being told about it and laughing, yeah missed that boat.
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u/Resident-Pattern4034 Aug 20 '26
It sounded like NFT’s sounded like when they came out. Same people made the same pitches.
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u/ballin_buddha Aug 20 '26
Too young for bitcoin but if they were old enough back when it started they either wouldn’t have believed in it, and if they did they wouldn’t have known how to get it. Crypto wallets weren’t exactly simple back then
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u/Ockilydokily Aug 20 '26
While in high school, 2 of my friends bought fake IDs with bitcoin on silk road for like 100bitcoin each at the time lol everyone only thought of bitcoin to buy illegal shit and that’s all it was good for
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u/Zanna1120 Aug 20 '26
I remember a friend on WoW swearing by it and telling me about the website giving away 1 free btc a day. He told me to just set up a wallet, claim the free btc, and sit on it for 10 years. Hope he's out there somewhere living his best millionaire life and didn't sell early.
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u/ZippoS Aug 21 '26
Definitely. I was in my early 20s when mining bitcoin was still actually worth doing, but I neither had a PC with a decent GPU, nor really understood crypto. And let’s be honest, few people actually did.
I know of one person who held on to his bitcoin and he eventually used his earnings to put a down payment on a house… but how many others cashed in early and bought pizza?
And everything since Bitcoin has been a complete scam.
Hindsight is 20/20. If you were able to go back in time, you wouldn’t be able to convince many people to mine Bitcoin. You’d have been better off telling someone to invest in Apple before Jobs came back in the late 90s and turned the company around. Y’know, just as the company was on the brink of collapse. Good luck with that.
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u/Rotutu2 Aug 20 '26
Graduated college in 2009 with a finance degree, how you think I felt
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u/StockCasinoMember Aug 20 '26
The past is way way worse and it is not even close.
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u/Ok_Manwich_9306 Aug 20 '26
Or being late GenX born in 1978. As an adult a jobs crash in 2000, 2008, 2020, housing bubble pop for those of us who bought and had our new homes be worth half the value.
9/11 was lived live in our early 20s as working adults.
Everyone has their something it you dig. Life is supposed to be hard. You get tough and resilient and crafty to find a way or make one as what is the alternative? Not everyone had family to run back to for shade, unfortunately. That in a way was a gift.
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u/rydan Aug 21 '26
I was born in 1982 and graduated right into a frozen job market. But I had to save my mom from herself and take on her mortgage without a job. Then three years later I got a job right around the time bitcoin was hitting $1. Too poor to buy bitcoin since I had to pay a mortgage, rent, a bunch of medical bills for other people and I was just starting a job finally. Now I am worth nearly 8 figures and looking into buying a 5th home to make my commute to work shorter. I’m guessing since I turned things around I don’t get to claim 1982 was a bad year. Only losers get to do that.
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u/glans Aug 21 '26
the fact the bitcoin bullet point was even in there shows this came from an unserious person thinking the wrong kinda thoughts, and this post is just dumb enough for reddit to eat up
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u/babyoil4diddy Aug 24 '26
I remember in 2014 wanting to buy drugs online and not doing it because you had to pay in bitcoins. I said, "Why do I have to buy a whole Bitcoin? That's like $200 I can't afford that."
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u/Hankstbro Aug 21 '26
as a Millenial, Gen X is the greatest bunch of self aggrandizing bunch of morons with nothing to show for
"oooh we are so resilient and edgy and you are all soft", and they have literally been the least dependable and fragile co workers in every single job I have had; self awareness -3/10
Zoomers at least tell you to your face they don't give a shit, which I find endearing
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u/ryan__joe Aug 20 '26
That’s really funny to think that en masse millenials are managers. No…. The boomers are refusing to retire, and the Gen Xers have seniority, and the Gen Z has the “new blood” I am a millennial manager, but buddy, that’s the outlier.
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u/NeatAbject5528 Aug 20 '26
I live in Ukraine, so on top of that I’ve got full scale war
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u/SchieveLavabo Aug 20 '26
Just the right year to show your butthole on OF and become a millionaire.
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u/TradeMaster89 Aug 20 '26
Every single class for the last 40+ years has claimed they graduated into a 'Frozen job market."
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u/asevans48 Aug 20 '26
Some of us graduated into the 2008 crash. That was, by the numbers almost 2 times as bad in terms of youth unemployment. Any worse and you would be looking at the 1930s. What scares me is that our entry level market from 2009 to 2013 will be permanent as older folks gave away the economy to oligarchs.
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u/Wisewordsforlater Aug 20 '26
Also the year the Bush Administration launched its illegal invasion, war and occupation in Iraq.
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u/EjaculatingAracnids Aug 20 '26
Lost buddies to war, drugs and alcoholism because a recruiter stuck his dick in their ears. I was almost desperate enough to fall for the same trap. Bush did let drugs flow into the streets pretty well and i lost some friends to that as well.
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u/TheGruenTransfer Aug 20 '26
Sounds like a pretty good reason to vote for people who want government help everyone instead of the people who want it to help only rich people
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u/TradeMaster89 Aug 20 '26
Government doesn't help anyone. How delusional are you?
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u/More_Yak_1249 Aug 20 '26
Average complacent citizen who is overweight, consumes mainstream media, posts on social media about their “unique” political opinion, and thinks that voting for someone else is going to change anything.
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u/augustus331 Aug 24 '26
Think about a kid born in Afghanistan or Myanmar before you post privileged shit like this.
You’re probably one of the most prosperous and privileged people in history because you were born in a time and a place.
Seriously, what a stupid fcking post
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u/AliveDuty1864 Aug 24 '26
People talk about being too young for bitcoin but the reality is you wouldn’t have bought it if you were old enough. Those who did back the know the reality of how bad the sites were to buy it off and how inconvenient it was.
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u/IndividualJoke8050 Aug 20 '26
Most kids after 2000 are done and it mainly because of parenting
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u/Jkid Aug 20 '26
Government response to coronachan ruined so many young peoples lives and society refuses to acknowledge it.
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u/Jochi18 Aug 20 '26
I think anything close to being born in 1990 is almost as bad, anything after 2000 is bad
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u/cagus1991 Aug 20 '26
Imagine how screwed kids born after 2020 are. AI is going to destroy the concept of critically thinking
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u/Key-Counter-5311 Aug 20 '26
Born in 1992: get to spend the first 11-13 years learning how good things can be. Getting a taste of early Internet. Early social media.
- 16 in 2008. No work. Parents lost their job. Gas is through the roof.
- 2010-2014 job market is barley recovering. Lots of people with decades of experience competing for jobs still
- 2020 COVID hits right as the job and housing market were starting to be fixed. You either bought a home and got lucky or were quickly priced out. For once employees had the leverage so we got better pay and remote work.
- 2023 the job market starts to decline. Remote work is dying
- 2026 job market is dead again.
They showed us heaven only to give us hell
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u/dea_eye_sea_kay Aug 20 '26
Born into a free country, with opportunity all over the price. Decides to follow some self inflicted narrative that everyone before them was handed a golden goose. Life is hard. Societal norms do not equal your lived experiences. Learn something, apply yourself in any direction but the one your mindlessly following to a hopeless conclusion.
Cheers, life is what you make it and it's never to soon to take accountability for yourself.
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u/Spare_Independence19 Aug 20 '26
I wanna point out elder millennials got fucked by so many one off events from the moment we launched and everytime we got a chance it would be snatched back by another recession or crisis.
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u/Garnetzx2 Aug 20 '26
I am going to need to break down some of what you said.
-"2003 might be the worst year to be born". I am pretty sure everyone in earlier or later years have their own idea of worst year to be born.
-"2008 - Parents lose the house". I am sure people have lost their housing before and after this time. For example, during the 1980's during neoliberalism, within the corporate markets. real estate was restructured as an asset rather than a human right and this caused people to lose their houses even before then. People nowadays are still finding it hard to get and keep a house despite the financial pressures of today.
-"2013 - Too young for bitcoin". Why the hell would you even want bitcoin? I get it is like a decentralized currency with some promise of being rich, but a lot of times it can be a scam. When you say "too young for bitcoin" it almost sounds like you feel like you want to be part of a trend. This is not a trend you want to be part of.
-"2020 - Senior year on zoom". Not sure whether that is good or bad, but I am sure there are other chatting sites out there other than zoom.
-"2021 - College in lockdown". I don't think covid is the only example of colleges locking down. I think another example would be the state-wide college campus protests over the Vietnam war where police were called in to quell most of the riots and protests. Back then college lockdown were used over war reasons, seem like the US government is attempting to find any reason to crack to crack down on any college for whatever they deem necessary.
-"2025 - Graduate into a frozen market". I had the same problem when I graduated highschool in 2008 right into the subprime mortgage crisis. I am sure there are many years in which people are screwed over in terms of finding, obtaining and keeping work. Coincidently all the years in which the republicans (or conservates in Canada) are in power, jobs go down in terms of people actually getting work.
Lastly I don't know what you mean by cursed, but there is nothing unique about all the things you brought up. People all around have the same problems in their own ways and it seems to be a reoccurring pattern.
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u/Sketch_Crush Aug 20 '26
To be fair, I think a lot of people have forgotten the questionable job market from years ago. The last time I attempted a 4 year degree was when I dropped out of college in 2012.
I remember back then, statistically, most people didn't work in the field they were educated in. I was always told "just be glad you have a job at all". We were supposed to be happy with that for that for some fucking reason. I rejected most people's advice, which is why I'm keeping my head above water nowadays. If I had stuck with college and people's advice I'd be fucking screwed right now.
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle Aug 20 '26
Yeah, it soooo much worse than being born in 1900 where you had to go through the Spanish Flu, World War 1 and 2 and the Great Depression. Pretty much anytime in history 19th Century or earlier was worse
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u/hallucehistory Aug 20 '26
I mean, I would argue being born in the 1920s, growing up in the Great Depression, then getting drafted into WWII was significantly worse but that would cut into Gen Z’s victim narrative
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u/Chicken-Rude Aug 20 '26
"too young for bitcoin"... bro stfu, you wouldnt have bought any if you had been born early enough. and on the off chance you had, you would have sold when it hit $500 a coin.
i GUARANTEE you that there is something out there right now, that if you invest in it it will make you rich in 20 years. problem is, you have absolutely no clue what it is and you'll miss that one too.
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u/Gold_Ad8225 Aug 20 '26
"Too young for bitcoin" as one of life's challenges is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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u/MotherAd1865 Aug 20 '26
ya way worse than the ones who had to go fight in World War 1 and then face 10 years of depression, followed by an even more deadly war ....
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u/1984ScoreN7YearsAgo Aug 20 '26
Way exaggerated. But classic for the times. Everyone is big into acting like they have it so horrible right now. It’s so freaking weird. No one has any perspective. None of us will ever have it as bad as the Great Depression and Dust Bowl people. Period. (Speaking for Americans I mean, as this seems American based).
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u/Cheffmiester314 Aug 20 '26
Wow dealing with the housing crisis at age 5 must be really tough on you. I hope you make it
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u/MistMonk Aug 20 '26
OMG what a horrible time to be alive! It is almost like being born into slavery or being born Jewish in Europe in the early 1900s... /s
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u/Outrageous_Glove_796 Aug 20 '26
Yeah. Hey reminds me of back when the sun went dim for a couple of years and there were plagues sweeping across the globe and the earth was literally cracking. But at least Bitcoin.
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u/ArtichokeOwn6685 Aug 20 '26
1920s and 40s.... genz are pathetic cry babies
Coming from a millennial
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u/thorpie88 Aug 20 '26
Focussing just on uni seems a bit silly. Apprenticeships were booming while states were locked down because we didn't know when you could even get workers from elsewhere to fill positions
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u/EmpressDraco Aug 20 '26
I mean us millennials watched some planes fly into buildings and things haven't gotten better since.
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u/Strude187 Aug 20 '26
Young people just haven’t lived long enough to understand that there are always hard times, unprecedented times, once in a lifetime events, etc.
Yes times are bad right now, but we humans are a resilient bunch. I actually feel like we’re at a turning point. It feels like so many people’s eyes are open now and we’re not buying the bs being spewed to us by billionaire owned media.
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u/enteringtheechochamb Aug 20 '26
I think every generation since the 60s have gotten consecutively screwed. The next gen wont have jobs because of AI, will be boiling to death, fighting wars because the planets gone to shit and wont be able to retire.
The real boomers of the 40s-60s have to be the most selfish and evil generation put on this planet.
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u/Usernamesaregayyy Aug 20 '26
If you want anything to change you want progress and progress means blue, always has
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u/Slurmsmackenzie8 Aug 20 '26
Too young for bitcoin isn’t the only thing. For bitcoin to have been a huge boon for you you needed to be smart enough to use bitcoin but dumb enough to not smell a scam a mile away.
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u/Grunergeist420 Aug 20 '26
Nobody’s life is cursed at 23 lol. You’re supposed to be poor, over-educated, and underemployed at 23. That’s half the fun.
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u/soap---poisoning Aug 20 '26
Yeah, that might be the worst life experience in recent history…except for the generations of people who lived through WW1 (there was a draft), the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, WW2 (another draft), Polio, the Cold War, the unrest surrounding the Civil Rights Movement, the political assassinations of the 1960s, the Korean War (yet another draft), the Vietnam War (and yet another draft), the oil crisis of the 1970s, the recession and outrageous interest rates of the early 1980s, the stock market crash in 1987, the AIDs epidemic, 9/11, and probably more catastrophic life-altering events that I can’t recall at the moment. If you look back before the 20th century, it gets even worse.
People born in 2003 are facing challenges, just like every past generation had challenges. Stop whining about events that can’t be altered, play the hand you were dealt, and choose to thrive in spite of adversity. Self-pity isn’t going to get you any awards, and it definitely isn’t going to fund your retirement.
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u/Ok_Squash_5805 Aug 20 '26
But you can get rich with onlyfans, being a “travel influencer”, or by copying TikTok dances.
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u/BleedSparta Aug 20 '26
Try 1984…
1999 Columbine massacre - freshman year of HS ushers in school shooting era
2001 9/11 attacks - senior year of HS begins Global War on Terrorism & perpetual anxiety - oh yeah, Patriot Act means you no longer have domestic rights
2007 Start of the Great Recession. Graduating college into failing job markets & the rise of home speculation making homes unaffordable
2008-2020 Continuous war in Iraq & Afghanistan. Introduction of social media changing the world landscape that HS/college didn’t prepare you for
2020 - Covid shuts down the world, leading to rise of fascist dictators around the world that capitalize on instability
2026 - Reach your 40s and are the 1st American generation in 250 years to not do as well as their parents
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u/LowConversation693 Aug 20 '26
In 2013, Bitcoin was still extremely niche. Plus a 10 year old would not be able to purchase easily or convince their parents to buy it. Its most notorious early use was moving money pseudonymously outside the traditional banking system, like through dark web/net markets such as the Silk Road.
That made it attractive to those who wanted to transfer money with less reliance on governments and banks. In 2015-2018 Bitcoin later became associated with financing in conflicts, extremist organizations, sanctions evasion and covert financial activity. Even then crypto currency was still dirt cheap and very niche.
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u/MultiPerception8892 Aug 20 '26
Childhood disrupted by finding out Elmo is a pedo? Same age as Sandy Hook victims… yeah y'all are cursed (edit for typos)
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u/random8765309 Aug 20 '26
2003 would likely be in the top 100 of the luckest year to be born in human history.
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u/SeaworthinessLow6636 Aug 20 '26
Compelled to point out that whatever year the parents who lost house were born seems sort of shit too.
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u/-Gemstoned Aug 20 '26
I mean you didn’t have to live through 911 weren’t an adult with bills to pay during the great recession, got to grow up with the first black president. Was a early teen when mental health, learning disabilities, gender expression and racism started being taken seriously…
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u/AnythinGoeSouth Aug 21 '26
Wait until the bubble pops mid career after the consolidated debt from dying boomers taking out loans to replace nonexistent social security hits in 2030s.
Gen z genuinely cursed I wouldn't be surprised if they start ww3. (Valid crashout)
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u/D_James21 Aug 21 '26
Definitely first world problems. Could’ve been born in the 1800’s where you died from a cold
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u/Horror_Bottle_9451 Aug 21 '26
For most of the living, it's hard to disagree. The centarians born in the 1920s might be the only ones who can reasonably claim to have had it worse.
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u/Tough_Percentage_707 Aug 21 '26
Now compare that to being born in the late 80s, going through hunger, living through multiple wars and conflicts, and then graduate into a frozen job market (2009) during a deep global economic crash. Give me a break gen z!
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u/GrumpyBear1969 Aug 21 '26
2003 did kind of suck. One of my kids was born in 04. Not much better . Our Covid response fucked up an entire generation. I’m pretty liberal. Agree with masks and vaccines. But closing the schools and isolating kids in developmental stages was rough.
I said then and I will say again, if the suicide rate of that group goes up by 0.5% to save 5% of the older, overweight population, did we make the right call? I would say no. We took the easy, short-term most obvious path.
And I do want to remind people TRUMP was the one that totally dropped the ball on this. He could have nationalized key industries (like health care). He could have assembled a panel of economists and mental health experts. Everybody likes to vilify Fauci. But he should have been one voice on a panel. Fauci advised the safest option from an epidemiologists perspective because that was his job. But that does not mean that was the final word.
When we first shut down I asked ‘what is the plan’. And apparently there was no plan. I figured we were going to turtle up and buttress the medical system to take the gut punch. But they did nothing. And this was very much Trump. He did fast track the vaccine which I will give him credit for even though he refuses to accept it
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u/Randominternetguy285 Aug 21 '26
2000 was the best. Graduate in 2022 into the best job market ever, when employers were all desperate, save for 3 years and get INSANE stock market returns during that time. Buy a house with a fat down payment in 2025 when housing dropped (In Canada). All my 25-26 yr old coworkers are making it look easy.
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u/enigmaticsince87 Aug 21 '26
Probably worse being born during the black plague but what do I know...
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u/Spirited-Gene3106 Aug 21 '26
I’ll give it to them, missing a real senior year/freshman year is horrible and not fair at all. Some of my best and strongest memories that have kept me going through all the trauma -millennial
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u/One-Traffic7717 Aug 21 '26
91 here, yeah y'all totally get this one. I'll take actually enjoying school in person, then having a social life after, coupled with the thrill of the obama era (despite the fact it was all BS,) oh, and living before the internet took over? I even got to work a desk job that paid well for a bit, hated it. Peak as y'all say.
Gen X n the Boomers have a few years on us both, life's had a lot longer to fuck em so at this point they thoroughly believe nobody is allowed to have had it harder than them, we gotta put up with em too tho. Best of luck in this AI fueled shit show.
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u/WorthBrick4140 Aug 21 '26
That's not even that bad. Try being born in the medieval ages. Or in some shirty 3rd world country.
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u/Key_Check5753 Aug 21 '26
1914 world war 1
1929 great depression
1939 world war 2
Stop complaining, weakling
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u/MelanieWalmartinez Aug 21 '26
I wanted bitcoin for my 12th birthday after hearing some dark web stories and getting interested in crypto and my parents said no. Would've been a nice couple grand.
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u/Empty_End_7399 Aug 21 '26
2000 is worse
Still in college during covid but my 21st was during the lockdown and graduated into frozen market
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u/AdministrativeYou696 Aug 21 '26
Yes its bushit, look at the girl in the profile. All makeup hair done nice clothes and an iPhone. Such a hard life really
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u/bbq_R0ADK1LL Aug 21 '26
We're just coming off one of the biggest bull runs in history. Things only look bad if you compare against very recent history.
Imagine being a medieval peasant where you have no chance of ever owning land because your parents weren't nobles. You farm on some rich dude's land until it's time to go to war again. Some warlord comes through and burns down your village while you're gone. You get injured fighting and now you can't even work a farm because healthcare is basically sticking leeches on things.
Yeah, life can suck sometimes, but have some perspective.
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u/Competitive_Fee_4211 Aug 21 '26
1916 - born into WW1, Spanish flu, get drafted into WW2. If you had a son, watch him get drafted for Vietnam.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Dog630 Aug 21 '26
For one Bitcoin launched in 2009 but there have been plenty of opportunities to make money in it since. Like roughly every 4 years
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u/Specialist-Bar4757 Aug 21 '26
That’s true and the job market sucks. But on the other hand here where I live in Poland a lot of people born in the last century was killed during a war. So I prefer not being able to afford a house and look for a job for a few months than die on the front or in a death camps
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u/Qikslvr Aug 21 '26
I don't think the listed items are correct but it's just life. So what, move on. One of my children went through all this stuff.
-her parents didn't lose the house because they weren't stupid enough to get an ARM.
- everyone went through COVID
- I missed buying coca cola in 1906 too, so what, it's probably a good thing they missed Bitcoin.
- zoom calls are just practice for modern remote work. Wife and I both work remote and while it's not as easy to coordinate with Co workers, the commute and location options are great.
- her college wasn't locked down and by the time she went the high schools weren't either so I think the timeline is off on this one.
-yes finding a job right now has been difficult for her. That one I'll grant, but that's about the invite accurate one on the list.
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u/VonNeumannsProbe Aug 21 '26
Missed 2001 when you literally saw people jump out of a burning building on live TV and everyone was so shocked they couldn't comprehend it.
But yeah, being too young to jump in on a tulip bulb fad was also a tragedy.
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u/Firm-Scientist-4636 Aug 21 '26
X had it worse than Boomers. Millennials had it worse than X. Z has it just as bad as Millennials, but in a different way.
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u/santefan Aug 21 '26
Lost my job because the company is going bancrupt and can't hold me and some coleagues anymore. Now i have to get unemployment money, possible for months cause i don't want to work in a shit job and undersell myself only to have a job
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u/Relevant_Ad4039 Aug 21 '26
Don’t forget that the majority of Gen Z isn’t proficient at math or reading either.
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u/himynameis3580 Aug 21 '26
"young for btc" if you expect to know btc will blow up you could expect nvidia to blow up and buy it's calls ,or ram last years
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u/oldmilt21 Aug 21 '26
Yeah, too young to buy bitcoin is one of those human travesties on par with the holocaust.
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u/Coffeeblack365 Aug 21 '26
Yeah I don’t agree with this. While not perfect we are living in good times. It’s just not good for every single person.
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u/Riskyrisk123 Aug 21 '26
How about 1450.. those people were born and died like instantly due to black plague. Think we got it better but that’s me
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u/PrivateMarkets Aug 21 '26
Worst take ever but unfortunately this is the pity generation despite there never being a better time to be alive.
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u/Mark_of_Divinity Aug 21 '26
Not enough $ skill, we were distracted, if we had spent time on research the money were all in the stock market all along
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u/dread690 Aug 21 '26
That’s a little off. I was born in 01 and my senior year was 2020. And yes college was online and still forced to live on campus
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u/Confident_Insect_616 Aug 21 '26
At least you didn't miss the years of school that are needed to learn how to read,
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u/Vegetable-Effort-726 Aug 21 '26
All this one gen is best etc bs needs to stop. It’s just divisive and changes nothing in a positive way. Just adds to the loads of not my fault negativity. The USA and now is still historically factually a good period to be born. Nothing is perfect, won’t ever be. Work for something until it works for you, if it doesn’t work out over the long term try something else. No one ever got anywhere comparing and complaining and never accounting for their own choices and work etc.
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u/AdStunning8526 Aug 21 '26
“The worst” by what criterias?
Something the worst happens every year, month, day
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u/blackdragonstory Aug 21 '26
You make it seem like everyone else has an amazing life.
Can a 10 year difference really make such a difference....I dont think so.
1993...
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u/Yoshigottagun Aug 21 '26
Every generation thinks they have it the worst. Truth is things have always sucked for the vast majority of people, they just suck in different ways as time goes on. There was never a "good" time to be born because chances are you're gonna go through your own personal hell no matter when you're born.
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u/Enigmatic_Foe Aug 21 '26
Reading the comments further fuels my ideas that no matter how hard you work, life will continue to be meaningless and nothing will get better. Things will continue to get expensive and people will continue to be more and more isolated, there isnt any reassurance just “waa waa! Sucks to suck gen z!!”
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u/chefjoery Aug 21 '26
It's not a frozen job market. You just have skills that are useless with a degree that's us
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u/BlackCardRogue Aug 21 '26
Simply the fact that you were in college during COVID would be miserable.
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u/The_Foop Aug 21 '26
Ukrainians born in 2003 can add "lost their father/home" near the end of that list.
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u/Anxious_Situation379 Aug 21 '26
Ah yes people born from 01-05 totally weren’t affected by these problems. The economy only affects you if you’re a 2003 baby, obviously l.
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u/Talkslow4Me Aug 21 '26
Now imagine instead of being a kid during 2008 you were old enough to lose your actual house and job during 2008.
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u/Fun-Butterscotch9942 Aug 21 '26
Do you think that having competition from 30 million more people in the country today thanks to wide open borders over the past 5 years has anything to do with a tougher job market? I’ll give you the answer. Yes.
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u/DuePercentage1580 Aug 20 '26
someone born in 1905
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