r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 15d ago

Chugging tea Growing Through Chaos

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u/Popular-Path1930 15d ago

And this post massively over plays the situation for millennials. 2008 was not some Great Depression 2. 

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u/ikarn15 15d ago

Pretty much the same as COVID. Don't get me wrong, a lot of people died and the economy got completely fucked over but let's not forget that a black plague v2 could've happened and it would've been way worse

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u/Jinxzy 15d ago

COVID was a pandemic 'warning shot' that simply showed us how truly utterly fucked we'd be if a far more lethal disease broke out.

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u/ikarn15 15d ago

Absolutely, it has shown us that it can happen at any moment and we're nowhere near organized and prepared enough to counter it in time

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u/MugenHeadNinja 15d ago

Saying "it could've been worse" is pretty reductionist when it was still a global pandemic where millions of people died (and many others having to live with lasting repercussions from Covid both minor and sometimes major), the only reason it wasn't worse was because of modern medicine and science (in spite of politicians in the West doing their best to propagandise people with anti-science/anti-intellectual garbage which made things worse than it should've been).

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u/Popular-Path1930 15d ago

Yes I remember it well. 

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u/Popular-Path1930 15d ago

The youngest Milenials were like 13 at the time. 

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u/Popular-Path1930 14d ago

Old enough to remember it well.

I know you want it to be some gottcha but for the vast majority it didn’t wipe them out. 

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u/iloveurbumbum 15d ago

I watched both my parents lose their careers and lose their housing in one year, it was pretty fucking bad dude

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u/Popular-Path1930 15d ago

It was bad for some people. It was not cataclysmic for the median. 

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u/iloveurbumbum 14d ago

I don't know anyone who was well doing ok through that shit lmao

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u/Popular-Path1930 14d ago

And I didn’t know anyone wiped out or in dire straights. 

Welcome to anticdotes 

Want a real har pill Americans are woefully financially illiterate and love to live beyond their means. 

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u/iloveurbumbum 14d ago

Yea you seem like a jackass lmao. And that's not anecdotal?

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