I feel like it was on purpose
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I got my MBA a couple months before the dot com bubble burst. Tell me about it.
I started college at the same time... also I graduated with my second bachelor's when 2008 happened...
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As someone born in the early 80’s, just for once I’d like a nice, boring decade. Pretty please.
Saw the fall of communism, the Balkan wars, 9/11, the rise and fall of the internet, the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab Spring, Brexit, global pandemic, war in Europe again, US politics, middle-east still fucked as usual. And then there’s climate change to fuck over everything in general.
So yeah, I’d love a decade where nothing happens. Heck, I’ll take a boring six months at this point. Gimme a fucking break.
Also born in early 80s and I agree.
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Most millennials graduated shortly after the crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
wrote last edited by [email protected]Isn't it more so that boomers in western EU and USA had an exceptional easy time? Everyone before, after or elsewhere less so.
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*Gen Y graduating from high school directly into Great Recession*
wrote last edited by [email protected]Should have voted... And not for the guy whose favorite president is known for genocide and crashing the economy.
Gen Z boys failed both steps (statistically)
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When does the character build/customization end so I can start playing the game?
wrote last edited by [email protected]A young salmon swims downriver searching for an ocean he has never seen. Eventually the riverbanks give way to a vast blue expanse. He approaches the first fish he sees and asks them where he might find the ocean. The other fish replies
"You're in it!"
The salmon shakes his head.
"This? This is water. I'm looking for the ocean!"
The character building and customization never ends, but it's also not something that has to be a burden. The way school and such introduces things like reading and learning or physical activity is sometimes very damaging because it gives you this impression that these things have to be work, that it's all about deadlines and what you can get out of them instead of enjoying them for the sake of the thing.
Suffice it to say if you're waiting to one day start your life and become who you want to be you're missing the point. The journey is supposed to be the focus, don't wait to start living for some lofty time you're allowed to begin building the life you want. Start the journey for it now and find passions to savor along the way. Life doesn't begin at 20, 30, or even 40, you just get different content so you might as well make the most of the fleeting window to enjoy the things that make life at your age special.
A long ramble, but I hope it conveys my point. Good luck!
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Well yeah you could also go like that backwards in time. Iran kidnap crisis, OPEP, cold war, hot wars ( proxy and ww i, ii) and so on and so on.
At least 1st world was steadily growing and improving since 1945, almost uninterrupted (yep, crisis in 1st world are amateur levels). If you were NOT born in 1st world you have to add corruption levels you can't imagine, economy rollercoaster that makes 10% inflation look like an utopia, and CIA destabilizing your country every single time it starts catching up.
We didn't start the fire comes to mind. Things have always been crazy, welcome to life since the dawn of society as we know it.
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Fall of the internet? The interet does not appear fallen to me
There's more people on the internet than ever but they are mostly all on one central part of it being manipulated by ads and algorithms designed to drain them of money and data.
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I started college at the same time... also I graduated with my second bachelor's when 2008 happened...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Okay you just need to stop pursuing higher education lmao.
I graduated with my associates in 2008, which is how I ended up joining the military later that year.
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Fall of the internet? The interet does not appear fallen to me
It's hard to see it falling when you're falling right along with it.
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It's hard to see it falling when you're falling right along with it.
But that is falling as it if its a process thats happening right now, not as something that has already happend
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But that is falling as it if its a process thats happening right now, not as something that has already happend
"The Fall of X" does not imply a past event. You can live during the fall of something quite easily. Such a us currently living through the fall of the American hegemony.
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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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"The Fall of X" does not imply a past event. You can live during the fall of something quite easily. Such a us currently living through the fall of the American hegemony.
If your read closely he says he "saw the fall of the internet". Saw...
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Isn't it more so that boomers in western EU and USA had an exceptional easy time? Everyone before, after or elsewhere less so.
IDK, maybe. I'm no expert. I would imagine it depends on how globalized the market was during Boomer's 20's and 30's.
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Should have voted... And not for the guy whose favorite president is known for genocide and crashing the economy.
Gen Z boys failed both steps (statistically)
graduating from high school
Should have voted...
Pretty sure that would have been illegal for most of them. Can't vote under 18.
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When does the character build/customization end so I can start playing the game?
Sorry there's no game, just a character screen with microtransactions.
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Every generation could have a "We didn't start the fire song.". It is just politics and the human race on repeat, until it can't or won't.
It was always burning, since the world's been turning.
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can live on eggs, roughage and water. quit mowing so no more grass clippings.
But they really want you to eat bugs
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My character is so big by now.
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graduating from high school
Should have voted...
Pretty sure that would have been illegal for most of them. Can't vote under 18.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In 2024 the oldest Gen Zs were 27, old man.
