I just want it to stop

Gen X here, I've been fighting against this future my whole life... I'm tired

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I feel like your generation really got poisoned by the boomer lies..."trust the system, put in your time, and you'll get your turn on top if you work hard"

Most of your cohorts just seem to be wandering around confused, struggling to reconcile their worldview with the reality that everything sucks (and is rapidly getting worse)

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- Not to dump on gen Xers but lets not give them too much woe(Note this is going to be more a US perspective). Yeah they grew up during(and were) the crime boom of the mid century that plagued American cities. Yeah they had the oil crisis and the dot com bubble. Yeah they were old enough to buy houses during the housing bubble bursting.
  
  Lets not also forget they were born 1965-1980. They were the tail end of being able to work up a company, they were a gen that still came into an office to still turn in applications in person and all that dated cliche stuff an older family member tells you to do if your unemployed. Theyre the ones who got alright enough paying jobs doing things like data entry while complaining about it. Theyre the ones who were the right age during emerging tech industry to do things like take a quick community college network certification course and now are making six figures as head of IT department. Theyre the ones who picked up those high paying independent reporter jobs before print media started dying off when the getting was still good. They were the ones who were at prime earning and home buying age before the market became nationwide screwed. Yes the interest rate was higher, but that meant it wasnt as attractive of an investment or business opportunity which meant prices were lower.
  
  But again it all depends who you are. The US went through some insane times in the mid century with urban decline thanks to sprawl and white flight, factories shutting down and de-industrialization, consolidation of banks and regional franchises and other businesses(leading to layoffs and in some cases the death of said merged company all together), and multiple collapses, the crack epidemic, aids and etc. And of course its not like gen xers or even boomers died once the elder millennials turned 18, they also experience covid, and the housing bubble crashing.
  
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Yeah, feel ya. We seem to have failed and most of us embraced the system we so fiercely opposed against.

If you can't beat them....

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- I never gave up and I never will. The time will come, this aint over yet.
  
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"Once in a lifetime" crises.

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same as it ever was.

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Every fucking ~5 years

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We got through the economic crisis? I never got them memo guys.

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The 2008 one yes. The new one...we haven't had a recession yet... So not even started it.

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I got through the 2002 burst that kept me un(der)employed for 3 years. Then the 2008 economic crisis.

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You're typing on a device, on a recreational website. You made it, this is as good as it gets now

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There's a way to stop it

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Even further

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- Devo was right all along.
  
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Who doesn't love a good old "stock market correction", where rich people lose money that never existed, and claw back real money from the poor.

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On the cheap, too! Almost as if... by design. .

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Don't we already have like three "millennials after facing 3 major crises in their lifetime" memes? Why did we need a will smith one? They're all the same joke with different pictures.

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- relevant
  
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The right response to this meme would be that other meme: first time?

:)

What I mean to say is : this bullshit is of all times.

Just look back in recent history. A long string of wars and economic downturns. GEN Xers have everything you have and the wonderful 70s, 80s & 90s added to the mix. You know, the never ending Vietnam war, Afghanistan, iran, gulf wars, yugoslavia, kaukasus, latin america in flames and a lot of other bullshit.

Economics? Ad to present day woes the oil crisis, housing crisis of the 80s where 15% mortgage rates meant that yes, housing was cheap and no, nobody could pay the mortgage and that bullshit in the 90s which I cant remember by name. And the dot.com burst of the 00's.

We all want it to stop. Like forever. But you know the line :

Money talks , bullshit walks.

The money is talking. We're just sitting here bullshitting. And, to end with that other meme, apparently: this is fine.

Because we in Europe are all voting hard right and across the pond people seem hell bend on the return of the orange faced demented warrior. And can we really blame 'em? Because what choice do they really have? Grandpa1 vs grandpa2? A competition about whose dementia is the worst? What's this? The soviet polit bureau of the 80s? ?

So. Yes, you reap what you sow.

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The economic crisis are also just the same crisis of capitalism with different pictures. Did that make them stop and make changes to the system?

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If the meme quota is not met, we might see crisis #4 start.

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Not mention there are millennials that have been over 35 for the last 7 years.

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How about

pandemic
multiple different catastrophes
war
multiple economic crises, including inflation so big, it actually goes into changing money
world turning into cyberpunk
tyrans staying alive while there are news about cure for cancer

And many fucking more

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including inflation so big, it actually goes into changing money

I didn't quite get what are your talking about here, could you explain?

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- In russia they had to turn 100 rubles into 1 rouble
  
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- Re-basing currency. Basically the mint makes "old money" worthless overnight, and "new money" is printed that has value that is more realistic. You get a window to buy new money with old money, and then that's it. I have no idea how that happens with digital accounting, but would obviously need to be a thing too. Point being: it's possible for inflation to be so horribly mismanaged that you have to declare a do-over to fix it.
  
  Zimbabwe is the current poster child for this, where trillion-dollar notes were exchanged for single-dollar amounts on their third attempt of re-basing. But other countries like Iceland have done this in the not too distant past.
  
  I'll add that with the US dollar being a de-facto reserve currency just about everywhere, the %1 is in the same boat with the rest of us. So I wouldn't expect things to get that dire. It might get re-based eventually, but probably more of a "let's move the decimal point over because this looks stupid" kind of a thing.
  
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I mean, technically boomers saw Korea, Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Yom Kippur, (sorry if it’s misspelled), and the 70s oil crisis. I think the world has really just been interesting all this time

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You say interesting, but I find the slow decay of our society as it's eroded by greedy corporations to be rather dull.

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- Or you could look at the progress of science, morality and general kindness.
  
  Your view is also valid. There are good and bad things to turn your focus on.
  
  I'd personally rather live in 2023 than 1923, so for me, the total change seems generally interesting/good.
  
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They also got to own their own homes.

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- And affordable education.
  
  And wage growth.
  
  And job availability..
  
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People are so much more "connected" now. Everyone hears about everything that goes on in the world. Well, except the good stuff, that's not engaging. This and modern popular culture has us focused on the state of the world, which we largely have no ability to directly impact. In the past, people have been more concerned with their community and bettering their immediate life.

Now, this allowed for us to bury our heads in the sand and ignore global issues caused by state actors and accept systemic issues. But it also often set people up for success. The problems modern people are expected to solve is shit like climate change. Which, you know, is impossible for a single person to achieve. The irony is that we're actually more alone. People today have fewer close friends and deep relationships than ever before.

The good news is that the world's actually in a better place than it ever has been by many metrics. The woeful feelings are created by societal shifts and pressures. Things we can control in our own life. So I think the answer is to get yourself right and into a good place. Set limits and disconnect from the internet, build close and meaningful IRL friendships. Once you're set, then reach out into the world and do whatever good you can.

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You forgot the 80s, 90s and 00s. Keep up. :)

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- I wanted to cover till their thirties to do the parallel with millennials
  
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- We got the back end of the nuclear threat and then Red Dawn
  
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Makes you just want to slap someone

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I don't know what Chris Rick did or said, but... blows threateningly on palm

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Honestly that's nothing compared to WWI, the great depression and WWII

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So basically baby boomers had it easy

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- The problem these days is everyone is self centered and unwilling to work hard. I see lots of complaints about how the world has been unfair but in reality we are unfair to each other.
  
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I'm tired boss.

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3 major economic crisis and a few dozen catestrophic events so far

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so far
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Joke's on you. I'm past 35 for the next economic crisis.

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I want to get off Mr Bones' wild ride.

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I'm 33 and I don't mind. Be glad you didn't have to fight in a WW with 16. Or starve to death with 12 in the middle ages.

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Don’t look now but the entire goddamn planet is hurtling towards another WW

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- 32, also wish I was dead
  
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Nah, you're just worked to death and still not able to own a home instead

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Don't worry, the real economic crisis is just now coming with the Fed planning on raising interest rates next year. That's been a pretty reliable indicator that shit is about to hit the fan for the last few financial crisis. What we got after the Pandemic was just a little entrée.

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I think the Fed said they will start lowering rates, maybe by 1%. But, yeah, this means they think they've got inflation under control, and worried about slow growth or decline in 2024-2025. I've heard speculation that OPEC may cut oil production to increase inflation before the election in an attempt to make Trump more likely to win, so dunno how the Fed will respond to that, if it happens. Inflation caused by supply shocks could also slow real growth.

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Pictured: Marcus Meander, 28 years old.

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I am sorry, but who? Am I missing a joke? Or some knowledge? Probably. Undoubtedly.

Looks like an aging Will Smith to me.

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- I made a random name, the joke is the picture shows a greying 28 year old from all the stress of these "once in a lifetime" events.
  
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The plural of 'crisis' is 'crises'.

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A clouder of crisis is called a "wtf"

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I thought it was crisisis

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- No I'm pretty sure its crisi
  
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is text from ai picture

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But will it run crisis? Yes, yes it will.

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That's me every evening

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Living the dream

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we didn't start the fire

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It's a great ride

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You saying that someone's going to make a remark at my wife on a public stage and I'm going go up and slap them in front of everyone for a minor faux pas?

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I feel like there have been duels to death over stuff like this at some point...

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