Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:06 am
A lot of the standard paths to success available to our parents - or even older gen-x cousins and siblings - weren't available. A lot of the assumptions about education and career needed to be abandoned. The boomer path of leaving college without crippling debt, and moving into a job right away where you stayed until you retired? Not really an option.
Millennials take the upper middle class of the mid 1960's and make that the entire Boomer paradigm
it's not only a myth, that wasn't even Boomers, Boomers were mostly teenagers at the time
in the 1970's when Boomers were mostly adults, it was hard times, harder than it is now
my father had a decent job, and still I grew up in dingy cockroach infested basement apartments
my father couldn't afford to buy a house in the city, and that was with a white collar management job
this is the land of milk honey now, Millennials have no perspective as to what it was really like in the 70's maan
it's the same as the blacks now trying to claim they are still oppressed by Jim Crow, everything is Snowflake now
all your perceptions have been warped by the internet
in terms of being Gen X, we had it worse than the Millennials
we had the same barriers, but we were a lost generation, so nobody paid any attention to our issues whatsoever
at the time I never thought I would own a home, never even crossed my mind, that was not even an option
I was a high school crop out, and mortgage rates were 18%