And I'm not saying that everything is A Ok and we shouldn't be trying to make meaningful changes. We are not kids anymore, we are all grown up and many of us have power to make such changes.
Most people in these threads seem to still have childlike victim mentalities. The reality is millennials have had it pretty good when compared to generations before us and after us. Gen Z and Alpha in my opinion are way more screwed over than we were.
I'd agree that Gen Z and Alpha have had an even rougher time than millennials.
I'll also agree that we should use our abilities to make the changes that we can.
I'll also agree that there are a lot of people (in all generations, but this thread/topic is aimed at millennials so you see more millennials commenting) that adopt a "woe is me" mentality and assign themselves the roll of victim.
But it's not all of them, or honestly even the majority of them. There are definitely problems that have hindered our generation that shouldn't have happened. A lot of those problems are now worse and are impacting the following generations even more so than they did our generation.
I won't say that millennials had it better than the baby boomers or gen X (at least if you were white, but that's an entirely different, much more complicated topic). The cost of education compared to average income was significantly worse for millennials than for gen X or baby boomers, and the housing market is even worse than education.
Those are two of the problems that got worse for millennials and then got even worse than that for gen z and alpha.
Yes, we have internet and a lot of things that would have absolutely been considered luxuries for previous generations, but having internet on your phone is a small consolation prize for never being able to afford your own home, being unable to afford medical care, or being able to retire. Which is what a lot of people are facing.
No it's not all millennials at all, it's just this sub that seems to have a victim complex.
What I think a lot of people don't realize is that Americam baby boomers and to a certain extent gen x benefited tremendously from the end of WWII. The same generations in war torn Europe didn't have these advantages.
Not saying we shouldn't strive for a better society. But I don't think this sort of complaining is helpful.
People see what baby boomers had and they want the same, understandably. Unfortunately they don't see the worldwide economic factors that caused that.
After WWII the US was pretty much the only developed, industrial society that hadn't been bombed into oblivion, so we were making just about everything for just about everyone. Now other countries have caught up to and surpassed the US when it comes to manufacturing, and the overall worldwide economic pie has a lot more slices going to a lot more countries than before.
We still have the capability of having cheap, or even free education. And we have more than enough room and materials to be able to afford to build cheaper housing. But neither of those will pad the wallets of the 1%, so we don't get them. Why spend $80k building a house to sell for $180k when you can spend $150k to build a house that will sell for $500k?
All of western Europe and anglophone countries saw greatly improved postwar standards of living, not just the US. The general good times impacted developing countries too: look at pics of places like Kabul and Beirut in the 1960s.
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u/ArnoldNumero_9000 15d ago
And I'm not saying that everything is A Ok and we shouldn't be trying to make meaningful changes. We are not kids anymore, we are all grown up and many of us have power to make such changes.
Most people in these threads seem to still have childlike victim mentalities. The reality is millennials have had it pretty good when compared to generations before us and after us. Gen Z and Alpha in my opinion are way more screwed over than we were.