re: The unluckiest generation in U.S. history

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

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Millenials will live to see the end of the United States and their children will likely grow up under a Venezuela-style socialist regime. You can cry, you can blame millenials, you can talk about how you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, but it's coming. It's coming because of a hundred years' worth of decisions made by politicians, academics, the entertainment industry, and the media. None of which are controlled by millenials.

In 1,000 years when historians look back at how the United States slowly came apart, they will say that the process began in the 1920s, accelarated exponentially in the 1960s, and was irreversible by 2000.

But congrats millenials, you got to grow up with cell phones.

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Well this was cheery

38 and older is GenX

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.)

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Peak of technology and medicine. All time low in crime.

My heart bleeds.

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No comment on the "unluckiest generation" but to say anything like

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Peak of technology and medicine

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is ignorant AF. There is no "peak"- not within my lifetime or yours or anyone reading this.

Technology, and therefore medicine, is subject to the snowball effect: If you think you've seen it all regarding technology then you'd better buckle ya gotdamn chinstrap because you ain't seen nothin' yet.

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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.

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



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