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[–] 19 points 3 years ago

Another Gen X-er here... this was before my time, too.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    Gen X here. Couldn’t buy a house until I was 35.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Millennial here. Over half of my friends will never own a house. And we are in the cheapest part of Canada to buy houses in.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well. At least we both will never get to retire!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm a millennial but I was gonna say this meme would be more appropriate if you replaced millennial with Gen X, you guys got the shit end of the stuck just like the rest of us unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    They got more affordable housing than we did though. Young millennials have to deal with $500K+ houses, but genX had $100-200K houses throughout the 90s and early 00s during a booming economy.

    Nothing like boomers though, with their cheap ass sub $100K houses.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    There is no genx community on Lemmy and the sub was interesting. Does anyone want to make a community for it?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    That would take effort. Does anyone from GenX really wanna do that?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Dammit, would it be wrong for this millennial to make it the?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Do it. We all watched Field of Dreams.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Will do. Unfortunately my instance temporarily blocked immunity creation and I don't want more centralization on Lemmy.world I kind of like the idea of genx being on sh.itjust.works so I'll just wait.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago
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    We zoomers are no little kids to you.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (9 children)

    I know! You're voting and shit and actively taking part in kicking societal norms in the junk. As a millenial I'm sooting rooting for you to keep it up.

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  • [+] -22 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    We are going to be the ones to suffer and hopefully fix the climate change your generation didn't fix enough... if anything can be done from south America.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    I definitely feel the resentment. Myself and much of our generation blames the gen xers and baby boomers for destroying the planet. But, climate change has been an inevitability since the industrial revolution. It's simply an inevitability of capitalism. That being said, it's not like the resentment isn't completely without warrant. Baby boomers at least got to prosper while the planet was plundered (at least here in America). They got cheap college, affordable housing, liveable wages, etc. us millennials grew up during 9/11 and the subsequent wars for oil in the middle east, we entered the job market just in time for the housing market crash, we're now in what's supposed to be our prime money making years and well... We all know how that's going.

    And the zoomers, you all were born into a techno-hellscape. You were subjected to toxic social media from an early age (yeah you can definitely blame millennials for that one). And then fucking COVID, and now once again, entering the job market at a horrible time.

    I guess the point of my rambling is, millennials, zoomers, we were both born into late stage capitalism, it's dystopian, and you're right to be angry about it. But maybe hopefully not all of that anger is pointed at us millennials, because I promise you, many of us are also angry with the same sad state of affairs.

    Hang in there comrade.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It was already too late thirty years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    nah, you fixed the ozone layer tough. (or where the gen xers?)

    ^[Sorry if i came as mean, didn't mean it 😅]^

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Brother why are you being a piss baby about some dude being nice to you

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sometimes, but it happens very rarely. The last time was from an unrequited love

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    not so much crying. just profuse sweating, dreams of falling, freezing cold or getting burned or just waiting in an afterlife room like beetlejuice, or punching the air and the pillows

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I cry in the day time, too.

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