Are Millenials the unluckiest generation in U.S. history?

[K1052]

If you're person A, and person B's behavior is out of your control, then the result of person B's behavior is luck from your perspective. Or it's functionally the same as luck.

If person B makes an informed choice to make person A's life worse I have no idea how that's considered luck. That's intent and responsibility.

 

[woolfe9998]

If person B makes an informed choice to make person A's life worse I have no idea how that's considered luck. That's intent and responsibility.

On the part of person B, yes, it's intent and responsibility. Look at it another way, the argument is that millennials were born at the worst time possible, at a time when western democracy seems to be in decline. You can call that bad luck, or whatever you want. Either way it was beyond the control of millennials, at least until they had the right to vote and arguably it was already fuked by then. Anyway, it's basically a semantic argument so I'll leave it at that.

 

[Moonbeam]

All of these generational issues have a single source. We all feel but do not know we feel and do not want to know we don't want to know we feel like the worst person in the world, but once that feeling has been deeply implanted and repressed, the result that no matter who you are, you will seek to blame somebody else. If the subject is race, some other race will be the worst in the world and if it is politics, some other party, and if age, any other age than ones own will be the one that is lucky and never had to struggle.

But if you want to find a real gem of a piece of shit, look for somebody who holds up a mirror.

You are going to have to stop pointing fingers at others if you want to stop blaming yourself. We hate ourselves but the truth of that is a lie. We were simply put down and believed it and we can glimps it in our reactions to being disrespected.

 

[Jhhnn]

Most Millenials I know who are doing well in life, family and career managed to avoid liberal indoctrination by college, parents or media. Life is better and harder for some people, depending on how they have been taught to manage in life. I also know a lot of totally pussified Millenials too. The difference in their lives is astounding. Some own homes and are well entrenched in careers, have families, ect., while others of same age have not accomplished one damn thing and are still living at home. So, no I don't believe just because one is of a particular generation that they are worse off.

As a group, millenials def are poorer than Boomers & GenX'ers. Mere fact-

Millennials are the biggest — but poorest — generation

Millennials have only a sliver of America's financial pie compared to what baby boomers had at the same age

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I'd agree -- millennials definitely got the short end of the stick compared to the previous generation, but even the combo of a pandemic, Trump and economic unfairness (having to go deep into debt just to get a decent job) is mild in comparison what some generations went through.

On that note: it's still strange to me to imagine a time when you could be drafted into a war, or when genocide took place on a massive scale (sadly, it's taken place during my lifetime). Hopefully those don't happen again, or at least not for a very long time.

My grandparents lost one child to diphtheria and another to typhoid. My grandfather was gas and coughed up half his lungs, literally due to chlorine inhalation and never fully recovered. Great Depression, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He went from horses to seeing Armstrong land on the Moon.

That's a pretty full lifetime and really bad outcomes but he saw his world change more in his lifetime than from the Iron Age until his birth. That much have been amazing.

"Lucky"? I'm not sure but a lot of trials along the way.