We’re in the endgame bois.
Being born around the 90s/00s is cool because your parents lose their home and jobs as you grow up in 08, then the economy explodes and there’s a pandemic when you’re about to graduate college, and then you die from climate change. All because the most psychotic humans to ever live get a dopamine rush when they see number go up, pretty cool!
Not just 90’s. Mid 80’s kids got screwed over just as well with graduating into the recession of 08, tried to claw out with crippling debt, then got this shit as well.
All while being told that they should have a house and are “lazy for not having that” by 30.
Bonus points go to people who graduated college in the aftermath of the '08 recession, couldn’t land in a real career in their 20s, then decided to go back to grad school in time to graduate into the aftermath of an even bigger recession.
my dumbass got locked up in 04 right in the middle of college (i was on a break but almost finished)… never got to feel the 08 hurt. i fucking hate my job but i guess grocery store lower managerment is recession proof. i feel for all my comrades right now though. i want everyone to be free of this cycle forever
- Owning a house? Only if the market absolutely collapses and I’m lucky enough to have an economy proof job.
I remember graduating high school in the mid-00s. Interest rates were ridiculously high, like 4% for a savings account. Luckily, with the help of financial aid, I was able to avoid taking out student loans while in college. The ones that had to take out loans were not so lucky.
We might survive climate change, but it won’t be without sacrifice in my eyes, a lot of people will have to pay for their crimes; and an incalculable number of people will die before this happens. Possibly hundreds of millions.
But yea, that’s the mood. We have nothing left to lose, and a world to win.
maybe we’ll finally hit the tipping point and people will actually do something to spark real change. or we’ll all die waiting for a means tested unemployment check that only covers half the groceries.
