re: The unluckiest generation in U.S. history

I'm not reading all this shite! Don't know if it's been said either. "Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times."

I was born April 1981. Technically to some, I’m a millennial, but I feel more Gen X

They’ve had more than any other generation. Bunch of fricking whiney babies.

I mean, my great uncle roger stormed Normandy while at the same age I was smoking dope and playing video games

So that whole being shot at because someone sent you seems pretty unlucky to me

I'd argue the unluckiest generation was that of the World War I veteran's children. The unfortunate ones saw their dad's have to protest when they didn't get their veterans benefits. The very unfortunate ones never met both parents because one (or both) died in our last foreign pandemic. Then all of them had to live during the depression. And to top it all off they then spent their prime years of young adulthood either Island Jumping, flying suicide missions over Europe, or liberating Europe from NAZIs. Top that off with kids who went to the shitshow years of Vietnam and entered their "prime earning years" in a horrible job market caused by Carter...then on the backend got hammered in the '87 crash. Oh and they're living their retirement years with 401k money which has taken a huge hit this year. Their kids are the middle management now whose 401k plans are in even worse shape and are going to have the toughest time finding jobs (that aren't "underemployment") close to what they were paid as companies would rather hire younger, cheaper labor.

Millenials (and their whiny media allies) need to STFU. They haven't gone through shite compared to the Greatest Generation-Boomers-Gen X lineage. You want a progressive tax? Tax AOC and the rest of those assholes an extra 10% just for everything we've done to make their lives easier. If they are so bad off right now while SatH, cut the Internet & wireless service off and hock TVs & computers. Read a book or listen to a radio...maybe then we'll listen to what you have to complain about.

(FWIW, I'm on the younger years of Gen X.)

Here's good support for the OP's thesis:



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