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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You say they are different. That's true. But that doesn't make it any less genuine or felt.

I may have been 12 when the economy turned sour in 2006. But so what? I can Guarantee you, I felt that just as much as anyone else.

Good for you that you were insulated from protests and strikes. I cant say I was insulated from an economy that collapsed. I didn't lose a job. Because I didn't have one. But that doesn't really seem to matter at all when I was affected by it just like everyone else.

I didn't lose a job. But I had to eat oatmeal 3 times a day. I chose to sell my stuff and do extra work to provide some extra money to my household. Because times were rough. So tell me again how me being a kid matters?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you really arguing that having no actual responsibilities is the same as having the weight of a collapsing world on your shoulders? Having been a kid, then a teenager, and now an adult, I can't even comprehend how someone can seriously make this argument.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

No. That is not what I'm arguing. Would you like to read my comment again and apply more than a kindergarten level of reading comprehension?