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The war between Millennials and Boomers has raged for quite some time. The former have been accused of being entitled brats blowing the money on lattes and avocado toast and refusing to buy homes. The latter have been accused of causing climate change and insisting you should still drop off a resume in person to get a job. Gen-X and Gen-Z tend to get forgotten in these skirmishes, but the reality is that we are all going through a lot together right now.
Everyone is suffering under the global pandemic and the economic collapse coming with it. It just feels like reality for some and a rough patch for others.
A lot of Millennials have decided that quarantine is the best time to express their frustration about having never really lived in a time of economic prosperity, unlike Boomers, and they’re doing it on Twitter. A lot has happened in the last 30 years that were formative for the Millennial generation and much of it was bad, especially in a financial sense. There are a lot of criticisms that people should consider when discussing cultural differences between age groups, but these tweets make a good case for leaving economic responsibility talking points behind. Things have been rough.
If you didn’t know how rough Millennials have had it, reading these might clear it up for you:
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Millennials living through their 2nd “once in a generation” economic collapse pic.twitter.com/CSkTiwz0tB
— Ryan Campbell (@RyanForSmyrna) April 6, 2020
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Hot take: If 20 formative years of your life involve a major terrorist attack, two recessions, exorbitantly expensive and unnecessary wars, tangibly worsening inequality, climate emergencies, and incompetence during a global pandemic, it might make you think things aren’t good.
— Lego Grad Student (@legogradstudent) March 18, 2020
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Us millennials have lived through 9/11, two ‘once in a lifetime’ financial crashes, the worst pandemic in 100 years, and Carole fucking Baskin.
— Asim Chaudhry (@AsimC86) April 6, 2020
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Millennials were born between the years 1981/1982 to 1996 or so. Accordingly this is not their first economic crisis but their third, having lived through the 2001 recession, and the 2008-09 Great Recession. https://t.co/M3kvQx8JnW
— Joe Bishop-Henchman ⚖️ (@jbhenchman) April 7, 2020
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I’m not even 30 and I’ve now lived through two presidential impeachments, September 11th, the anthrax attacks, two major recessions, and a global pandemic. Millennials are not kids anymore
— Stephen C. Phillips (@scvphillips) April 7, 2020
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Kind of amazed at how numb my fellow Millennials have become to catastrophe, but then we’re overworked, underpaid, and living through however many Forever Wars have been going on since the last major crisis we collectively experienced, 9/11.
— Back Aff Ye Spooky Wee Virus Thingy (@_Rewhan) March 20, 2020
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90s babies have been through a global pandemic, 9/11, 2016 presidential election, iHop randomly changing its name for a few weeks, 2008-2009 recession, Brexit, and a Cubs World Series.
We’ve seen it all.
— Trent Craig (@TCraig28) April 2, 2020
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Y’all millennials have been THROUGH It. The world has unraveled 3 times in our life time and half of us aren’t even 30
— Petty Betty (@Princess4loko) March 21, 2020
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I hope all millennials can get free access to therapy. We have lived through, remembered and been a part of so many life changing, anxiety inducing situations before most of us even turn 30. Like half of this stuff just seems normal now and that desensitization is not okay.
— Jaylin (@pablopodcasto) April 5, 2020
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For millennials:
“Welcome to your teenage years! Here’s a global terrorism event to define your adolescence!”“Welcome to adulthood! Here’s a global recession!”
“Welcome to parenthood! Here’s a global pandemic!”
don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m terrified of middle age
— (@JoshuaGrubbsPhD) March 20, 2020
