Millennials Are the New Lost Generation

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By many accounts, I am doing well, browsing BoConcept and Dolce &Gabbana during a pandemic, but the loss of income, and more than income, stability, from the Recession, I should have way more money and security. Granted, some of this is my chosen path, but having an economic crisis at age 22, when me and our generation are barely starting our financial lives.

My family is doing well now, but my Dad was struggling for years post Recession, when he should have been coasting out at maximum income to retirement. He has his parents assets to fall back on, they have since passed.
 

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No college degree I'm about to bag a 75-85k$ job, 33

edit, this is a terrible time to grow up poor though
:jbhmm: what job is that. My job doesn't technically need a degree either but you gotta be a book smart nikka to do it, and 2 uncles were grinders but not book smart.
 

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:jbhmm: what job is that. My job doesn't technically need a degree either but you gotta be a book smart nikka to do it, and 2 uncles were grinders but not book smart.
Ironically, I just got laid off, but have fruitful interview(s) coming up. I'm a purchasing agent in manufacturing. I started working as a data entry clerk.

Grinding could prolly top out at 80-90k, depending how long, where and to what extent you're special. Like most mfg jobs.
 

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Yeah, Lowrey is MUCH better at these millennial articles than Derrick Thompson. For the Black viewpoint, I've been meaning to check out Reniqua Allen's "It Was All a Dream" for about a year now, but I have hesitated because reading "Squeezed" had me in a bad mood for several weeks. And so, I can only imagine how upset I would be reading Allen's work.

For Black Millenials, there is still a belief in the dream though, even though I think their belief is not etched in probability. In general, in the future I expect non-privileged Millenials to fall into three (3) categories:
  • Those who believe in the American Dream and the meritocracy narrative.
    • And think that grit and determination will help close whatever gaps are in place for them and their potential children.
  • Millennials who take on some of the aspects of the American dream (i.e. DINC Couples) but avoid some of the more expensive parts of the dream.
    • And this may allow them to avoid certain downside risks.
    • The building of tribes and identity built around value tradeoffs have already taken place amongst Millenials(i.e. the increase in popularity of Minimalism, Stoicism, F.I.R.E., and the Tiny House movement).
  • Millennials who abandon the dominant narratives and decide to embrace a work based cosmopolitan identity, with an emphasis on autonomy and experiences.
    • It could be argued this is already prevalent amongst Millenials, but it currently doesn't seem to scale across class and racial lines.
    • But that could change if a larger number of working class Millenials realize they aren't going to obtain a lifestyle similar to their parents.
A couple of those meritocracy preachers are right here in this thread. They'll bytch about shyt stacked against them when they want to play victim, but turn it around and point out they're doing better than everyone else and keep screwing the little guy over, and they'll say the little guy deserves it for not being them.
 
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These two experiences could traumatize our generation enough to bring radical change.
That’s if climate change doesn’t reach a point of no return. Which at that point we can all hit the streets and liquidate every wealthy person that had anything to do with our doom.
 

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Gen X is in the same boat. We just don’t get any attention because we are sandwiched between the two loudest and most self absorbed generations ever.

We took our lumps stoically and with grace, like the the Greatest generation.

Even so, most of Gen X graduated from college in the 90s when good paying jobs were abundant. They had a good 10 to 15 years of a solid job market before everything went south.
 

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Even so, most of Gen X graduated from college in the 90s when good paying jobs were abundant. They had a good 10 to 15 years of a solid job market before everything went south.

Yeah, don’t even know why he said shyt. Gen X had a solid run. Meanwhile, that demonic cac Bolsanaro keeps cutting down the Amazon. Lol I literally see no point in kids cuz these a$$holes are creating a terrible world for the future.
 

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Even so, most of Gen X graduated from college in the 90s when good paying jobs were abundant. They had a good 10 to 15 years of a solid job market before everything went south.

Tail end of Gen X caught hell. Soon as we graduated college, we were hit with 9/11. Then layoffs from 2001 recession, then we had to go fight in Iraq war and to op it all off, more layoffs due to 2008 recession as we were entering our settling down stage of life.

We’ve been through some shyt at key points in our lives, but we are constantly ignored. It’s all about Boomers vs Millennials.

We are like the neglected middle child in this bytch.
 
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