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I keep telling myself: could be worse. Could also be better, but could be worse 🤷😬
Not sure who I’m trying to convince haha.
And it will be. Buckle up, comrade.
At least I’m not being boiled alive
🤔
Yet
More than half of millennials are >=37 years old now…hell, the oldest are in their mid forties now
I wonder how many of us have settled for being content with watching the world burn.
I’ll be 36 this year and I still live like I did when I was a student. I’m too worried about getting used to nice things and have been for the past 20 years that I simply just don’t spend money on anything other than food and bills and people around me tell me I should spoil myself more and go on more vacations and blah blah blah and I just want to scream at them xD
My life goal is to stay out of debt. You don’t stay out of debt if you constantly fly around the world and buy expensive shit you don’t need and replace your phone every three years or whatever I see some people do.
The good thing about my lifestyle is that when the next economic crisis hits, I am used to live like a rat so I don’t have to dial back too much compared to some people who treat their bankaccount like a Yolo slot machine.
I sure do miss rotisserie chicken, though. That’s one luxury I sadly got used to but whatever. Not the hardest thing to give up tbh and once in awhile you do get lucky that they are on sale to a reasonable price.
Chicken thighs or quarters are good for moist, flavorful chicken
Source: fellow rat
Oh for real. We sometimes buy a very cheap and shitty red wine and soak chicken thighs in it and cook them with spices and veggies. Also chopping up cauliflower and fry it with garlic and pepper and using the red wine sauce from the chicken to pour over it before serving. Fucking magic. It’s almost enough to make you forget that you’re a rat.
Every three years? Lol.
Yes. I have known a few people who made a bit of fun of me for having kept the same phone for seven years and told me that they had had three or four phones within that time span and that I was silly for keeping the same phone for so long. What about the newest updates and cameras and gadgets or whatever they call it? Why would I put up with outdated tech? The phone I have right now is from 22 and it still works fine. I hope it will last me until 2032, longer if possible.
No, I get it. My phones should last at least five years and some of them even have longer uses after being my primary phones. For example, I still plan to use my Redmi Note 4 Pro (mido) as a Kodi entertainment center with postmarketOS, even after six years of heavy daily usage. Every time I buy a phone I try to make sure it’s officially supported by Lineage OS, but people in general just want the new thing. Honestly, the mobile phone industry doesn’t even change that fast anymore. A 3-yo phone is basically as good as the new shiny thing.
From my own experience, it’s mostly just the ones without kids that don’t give a shit and have gone apathetic.
That’s a fair point of view. From some meagre research that’s about 33% of millenials and GenZ’s.
Another fair point IMO, settling for something is not the same as being apathetic. It’s more a question about finding the best way of coping with an unacceptable situation.
And many of the “smart” ones still think economic market models are more accurate than reality.
I think the worst part is that we do, in fact, know it will get worse… But we were raised thinking we’d all live in big houses and be free of debt by now.
I’m tired, boss
Yeah. I’m gonna get fired for being room temperature one day.
The cyclical boom bust cycle is on purpose. Can’t make billionaire’s richer if stock prices don’t go down.
“We don’t know why are all the younger generations depressed! They just need to buy less avacado toast and they can buy a house…”
-clueless boomers.
First year Gen X-er here. We know why you’re depressed. We went through similar things, believe it not. I often wish I could share how scary living through the 80s was – often fearing a nuclear apocalypse, environmental decline, wars, riots and unrest all over the world, politicians who didn’t give a damn or had no idea how to make things better. Nobody listens to you when you’re in your 20s. It seems most now think the 80s were just like Family Ties. Not so.
But this too shall pass. You can help make it better by getting out there and working with the good guys. Don’t give up.
My parents lived in the mountains for much of the Cold War. We crowded around the radio daily to listen if the risk of the actual apocalypse was any closer. Several times we thought it was about to happen. Several times it really did almost happen.
I hope we don’t get to that point again. I really thought for most of my adult life that the USA’s deep trade ties to the rest of the world along with other super-powers would ensure some level of stability and peace. And it did.
Past tense.
Yeah there’s definitely some rose tint looking back to the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. Crime was ridiculous compared to the levels these days, just for a start. But it was just ‘normal’. We’ve made a lot of progress there. Which is about to be undone as people get increasingly desperate.
There were several energy crisiss that kneecapped a lot of the 70s and 80. Nixon, the Vietnamese war, the fall of the USSR. All those things were monumental moments in history and we survived. The world isn’t over yet, but Trump is really trying to make everyone jump to the end game
I missed seeing Russia collapse, but I live in hope it will happen again in my lifetime.
The important thing is to follow in the footsteps of our elders and obliviously cast shade on the next generation(s) (should they be so lucky to exist).
Don’t forget to stop buying those fancy Starbucks coffees.
“Clearly it’s the phones fault! The phones are to blame, not us voting in fascists and ignoring the incoming climate holocaust!”
33? You’re a baby
Average male lifespan being 72, 36 is the average halfway done with life point
I know. I just meant to say they’re still pretty young, I don’t understand why all the downvoting. Haters gonna hate I guess
The way you expressed that thought came off extremely condescending, that’s why you’re getting down votes.
It’s Lemmy. This is the kind of people that can’t comment to each other without going ballistic over the slightest thing
Stop crying, geez.
(You’ll need those tears for your forties)I turned 40 in February. 😭
Welcome to the club, friend.
The booze is in the back.Wow, you got booze!?
Im only slightly older, I got to experience life in the dotcom kaboom. My entire adult life’s been: this is a once in a lifetime thing every 5 years. I’m guessing this is what the 1870s were like with all the finance stuff and overall turmoil. Bit numb to it by now.
I’m about to hit 50 and I’m still not done crying.
To be faaaair, i never said when it ends
sob I know sob
The generation of “cake or death” seriously starting to consider the death instead of the chicken.
I wish I was 35.
Also, “crises.”
*Crises
Sorry. ❤️ I’m with you in the same boat.
I graduated highschool, got out on my own, got 9/11. Then we had 2008 housing. Then we had corona. Probably some stuff I’m missing.
Some of us millennials have been extraordinarily lucky.
I’m an old millennial but I avoided any personal impact from the 2001 recession by being in college, on financial aid.
Then the 2008 recession didn’t hit me very hard because I wasn’t a homeowner was a single childless dude who was flexible enough to just up and move wherever there was a job, across the country if necessary. I had a different job in a different state each year from 2008 through 2011, taking big raises with each move, then eventually back to school.
Then the 2020 recession didn’t hit me very hard because my wife and I both had counter-cyclical jobs (I tend to be busier when businesses are failing) and already owned a home, allowing us to bypass much of the inflation of the post-2020 period with a fixed rate mortgage we had refinanced to below 3% in 2021.
Now, the 2025 recession is probably gonna hit us hard. But I’ve basically escaped the last 3, so maybe I’m due.
Clearly you’re the catalyst in all of this… Fate has been targeting you and each time you’ve skated throu…“GUYS! I FOUND HIM! GET THE PITCHFORKS, TORCHES, AND GET THE SACRIFICIAL BONFIRE READY! WE CAN STILL FIX THIS!”
I’ll start warming up the volcano.
Clearly you’re the catalyst in all of this…
There is going to be a showdown, and then we are done.
I’ve seen that Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, so I noe!
Well, at least you aren’t tying to sell us on “I made it this far alone with no help from nobody.”
I feel the same way. Im 1 phase removed, but have been very lucky in dodging them too.
01 i was in high school, 08 i was in college with minimal expenses. I was paying $975 per quarter for room and board including 9 prepare meals a week and had enough school ships that my quarterly tuition was also under $1000, coupled with an engineering coop 1/2 the year, i came out financially ahead.
Covid i was a salaried essential worker who had to work 3 days a week but still got paid full salary. That made the lack of available child care bearable. I also had a house that i purchased with 3.25% mortgage.
This next one im feeling already. I moved for my wifes job this year, so that new mortgage rate sucks
yeah, seems like the earlier you were born the better off you are going to be in the long run right now…
No, if you look closer I actually managed to avoid the 2008 stuff by kinda being immature and “behind” by not being super set in my career path in my late 20’s. My smart friends from high school and college were decimated by the 2008 recession. When I went back to school in the early 2010’s, I basically got my law degree with a bunch of people who were younger than me, and got myself on the middle millennial track (despite being an old millennial).
My delayed career progression, as a slacker in my 20’s, saved my financial situation.
And if I were even older, 2001 might have permanently set me back, too. Lots of late Gen X never really recovered from that.
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