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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Jesus Christ can’t you people just let millennials express some entirely deserved outrage and anger over getting hit with yet another major financial crisis without parachuting in to finger wag at us about it

MetaVulture
@metavulture.com

I got to see three. This is four. Whipee. I will never own a house. And if I do, I will never pay it off. So fun being on the older end of the Y Gen. I am furious.

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

And also Christ I am NOT saying Only Millennials Have Had it Bad, I’m saying that when people are expressing rage and upset, don’t come into their mentions to tell them to stop whining and that other people had it worse.

Lucy Kemnitzer
@lucykemnitzer.bsky.social

People should be _commiserating_ across generations about this shit, & also should be acknowledging that the earlier shit was rehearsal for the later shit, & the later shit is worse because we didn't fix the earlier shit.

Greg Burton
@gregburton.bsky.social

kind of a joke (but really just ironic): complained about the '73 recession (biggest til '08) - got lectured by my depression-era parents about eating mayo sandwiches and selling newspapers on the streetcorner at 4 years old. Not going to tell Kids Today to shut up, but I will suggest you organize

Phil
@phoutz.bsky.social

When I was 8 my parents sold our house and we moved out to the "countryside." The new house cost pretty close to my Dad's annual salary. The milkman earned enough to own his own home. Today a home costs, what, 13x the average annual income? That seems pretty upsetting to me.

Don Kronenberger
@donkronenberger.bsky.social

I’m 62. My first house cost 1.5 times my annual income, which seemed like an impossible amount of money, so a mortgage of course. Recently, my home taxable valuation went to 15.0 times my annual income. Can’t see how the young will do it.

Super Artificial Ingredient Goddess
@lizdynan.bsky.social

I agree. I'm a boomer, no kids but big family, lots of millenials. I've often thought about how my siblings and I benefited from a strong state and surpassed our parents' standard of living. It's not the same anymore because so much has been taken away as they were growing up. Makes me sad.

Horrificallie
@grissallia.bsky.social

I'm an X who finds herself in a somewhat millennial position financially due to circumstances that occurred when I should have been establishing myself financially, and I feel for the millennials and our gen Z kids.

Bev Pausche, APR
@bevpr.bsky.social

Me too. And I agree. I have kids in both Millennial and Gen Z, and they are struggling. I’m still helping them and my aging stepfather. It’s not been easy for anyone since boomers.