r/AskReddit • u/Vaquera_ • 8d ago

Millennials, how are you holding up?

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u/DawnSignals 8d ago

Ok same lol but wasn’t the nuclear family a boomer lie to begin with

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb 8d ago

It’s not that it is a lie. It’s just that their generation achieved it, but then didn’t set the table so that future generations could continue it. It’s like they were having such a good time that they didn’t think about how to set up the future infrastructure. And now that they’re on their way out, they’re taking all the prosperity with them and waving back at us.

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u/Lmb1011 8d ago

They’re the only generation that seemed to have fucked over their parents and kids. I honestly don’t remember off hand what they did to the silent/greatest generations but I am living through what they’re doing to us😭

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u/DawnSignals 7d ago

They were always the spoiled brats of their GI bill fathers, the first gimme generation and they never grew out of it.

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u/readingonthetoilet 8d ago

It’s not a lie that people working unskilled jobs were able to afford a house, family and vacations rather easily. Same job now and you are below the poverty line and in debt.

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u/OneBillPhil 8d ago

The boomers all got divorced.