re: The unluckiest generation in U.S. history

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I don't know. I'm a millennial, but I kinda feel like the generations that died in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII kinda had it worse

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This.

This article is little more than myopic, handwringing, peacocking idiocy.

I'm a millennial who graduated college during the throes of the Great Recession, and I had a hell of a time finding a job and starting my career in 2009. It absolutely sucked, but I never for one moment thought "damn, I have it so much harder than my grandfather," a man who was born in 1924 and survived the Great Depression and the ETO in WWII all by the age of 21.

And that's just my grandparents' generation, and doesn't even get into the Lost Generation that was born in the 1890s and lived through WWI and the Spanish Flu (which killed ~675,000 Americans) and were arguably most affected by the Great Depression, or the generations who came of age during the early 1800s when America was still in her infancy and people had to weather the dangers of the open territories in order to make a living, or the generation who came of age during the Civil War and Reconstruction.