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Kinda sucks having a generation of spoiled narcissists in charge tbh.
You forgot "lead-addled"
Some of them could use more lead imo.
Lead-deposed
Three generations of spoiled narcissists coasting on what the Greatest and Lost built.
Remember the 80s recession? GenX remembers.
Millenials born in late 80s or early 90s may not remember but it could still have affected their childhood.
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This cycle of republicans wrecking the world, then democrats quietly, meekly fixing the mess after like a battered wife, it goes way back.
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4th "once in a lifetime" crash, SO FAR...
more like
Like two three years ago when they told us there might be a nuclear escalation.
Millennials: eh shrug maybe not
You should expect about one recession every 5-10 years.
They are all "once in a lifetime" in their own way if you want to sell news headlines.
The covid one is really the only one that really stands out as being a unique naturally caused crash, but what makes it most unique isn't the market stuff at all.
This one has been just waiting to happen for a while, but this one being intentionally caused is fairly unique, I guess.
The size of the dotcom + great recession combined is fairly unique, making immediately before the dotcom bust one of the worst times you could have retired in the US since at least the great depression. But that doesn't affect millennials directly and it's the affect of two back to make crashes.
Yeah, the Trump Recession (we hope not a full-blown depression) will have been uniquely caused as well. Definitely one for the history books.
You think the future will have books?
Far future will. Life on Earth tends to find a way.
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Meanwhile, genx:
Yeah kinda. We've gone through everything that the Millennials have plus some.
In my years, I've lost a home, two cars, four careers, buried 5 close family members including parents and a sibling. Been an alcoholic, recovered. Had severe depression. Recovered. Had Nearly lost my partner to illness and helped her learn to walk and eat again. Been so broke a few times that I was stealing water from construction sites so we could flush our toilet. Laid to rest a dozen beloved pets. Said goodbye more times than hello.
I'm back on my feet, starting over. Again. A little wiser, a little more battered and scarred up, a lot more tired. Missing a few teeth and all my hair, but still going.
The world right now is a massive mess, don't get me wrong. We're in real trouble. But at this point I don't think anything short of an actual band of raiders with halberds chasing me down through the woods is going to end this ride for me. At this rate, might happen.
wait really? i don't see how time could work that way
I used to roll my eyes when older people said that time keeps repeating, that everything happens over and over again.
Then I got old and started seeing everyone making the same damn mistakes over and over and over again, the same events recycling but with new actors, people not learning from the past, not working together, not writing things down so we don't forget, and yeah, I DO get it now. The adult blackpill is a lot darker and more bitter than the one you swallow when you're an irate teen who thinks the world owes you something. I would love to go back in time and have that energy again.
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You got to buy houses at a reasonable price and had proper student unions, don't @ me.
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Throw gen z in there. We start at 1997
We are in the "hard times create hard men" part of the cycle.
Hard non-binary persons, mind you!
And if they wear furry suits it’s because they’re harder! Wait…
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I’m gonna get fired for being room temperature one day.
I wonder if it was intentional in the original…
letting the days go by~
ITS ENOUGH SLICES
I contemplate the moment in the market, the idea of allowing your own crucifixion.
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