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Originally Posted by Gen6
The ****ed Millenials do realize that most of their parents are the Boomers, right?
I'm pretry sure we are aware. My dad with his high school education retired with pension at 55 or thereabouts, from an entry level government job. He served stateside during the Vietnam war.
He said covid is this generations great depression to deal with. A great depression he missed by about 20 years. So far we haven't gone great depression deep , but covid *has* been bad, 9-11, the great recession, and age 65 were objectively career stalling events any armchair historian can point to which hit *generally* the post boomer crowd the hardest.
I don't begrudge someone their birthday. How can I ? I think millenials get blended into the *post* mileanniaI crowd, which is incorrect. The post milennial generation is the one who grew up on social media and cell phones in their hands even as toddlers---- and they for a few years were on a rocket ship ride in their careers, skipping crappy rungs on the pilot career ladder other generations (plural) dealt with. Well now even they are stalled out too.
I will again acknowledge there are a large number of post 9-11 furloughs on property who are neither boomers nor milennials who lost out on years of earning and time value or money on their retirements. That saddens me.
I am grateful on behalf of my wife and kid this passed, I feel a debt of gratitude to be in a new era of not simply being thrown to the street.