• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    From my perspective, the other shoe dropped right around 2000-2001, just as Millennials were going off to college for the first time.

    The 90s were so heavily propagandized, we all thought it was smooth sailing ahead. Little did we know…

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      21 days ago

      its like there were stages but post 2000 was when it was becoming more and more apparent. To me 70’s were sorta peak in terms of we still seemed to be going mostly in the right direction but things started to be dismantled in the 80’s and just keep accelerating from there. by the 20teens it just became impossible to ignore all the many problems. Im lucky as im an Xer. While I would totally jump on the chance to have been born older I completely see how it gets worse and worse. I sorta lucked out for my time period as I spent enough time in school were yeah I missed some good earnings time but it kept me from having children. I know folks who started making money and had kids in the late 90’s.