Older Gen Z have lived through all of those as well, but before the age of 30 😭
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Gen X went through a wall street crash and recession. We went through a recession when reagan screwed up the economy in the early 80's the frequency is just increasing.
Oh yeah, 9/11. The biggest issue of this generation. I imagine millennials in Ukraine be like “war is tough, but thank God 9/11 is over”
‘Thank goodness we don’t have to wear masks anymore’ meanwhile a bomb drops somewhere in the backdrop..
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You're forgetting hole in the ozone
The hole in the ozone layer is recovering due to the bans on CFCs in the 90s. Climate change deniers deny this and insist that it is something that would have happened anyway...
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3 or more possible WW3's
It is not unfair to clock the first bit. But you can't count hypothetical WW3s. That's like Boomers saying they lived through Hypothetical Nuclear Winter.
Also, if we're counting recessions as millennials, you can't neglect the '87 crash and the '01 dot-com bubble. If we're counting plagues, you can't leave out AIDS.
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I turned 40 in February and I only forsee things getting worse. 😩
I’m pretty sure there a lot of worse stuff that’s happened in the past 100 years, you just know how that ended.
We know, we learned the details about WW2. Our grandparents and great grandparents actually lived through that, and told us the stories.
All the adults told us it would be better for us than for them. While they fucked everything up and then blame us.
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Whenever millenials post stuff like this I’m like ‘huh, welcome to the human race I guess? You’re slowly catching up to all the generations even the new generation after you has seen some shit ‘ I mean I’m not sure where you’re intending to take this complaint about being human. If you find the manager or a help desk let the rest of us know. Some of us been looking for it since the 70s.
I mean, people who were born in early 1900's would have spanish flu + 2 WW's just in one life time(if they reach the second one)
/+ in Germany there was the biggest hyper Inflation imagenable.
Well, summer is within spitting distance, so prepare for a new record. :)