Millennials: The Unluckiest Generation In Modern History?

Agreed 💯

Gen z has entered the chat ...

Just needed to work harder. I’m born in 84. I worked fast food for 12 1/2 years, working my way up as a manager as I put my way through school getting my bachelors. I worked 2 to 3 other job jobs at the same time and rented our rooms where I lived in the house that I bought as a result of predatory lending before the housing market crashed in 2008. I did not foreclose and I stayed in my home which is now a good chunk of my net worth.

I continue to work in the food service industry managing multiple locations and opening stores and then I started entry level and a completely different field, desk job. I had to take a 55% pay cut, but continue to work 2 to 3 other jobs and rent out rooms in my home. That job put me through school and I got a MBA as I’ve battled the pandemic and my inability to work other jobs that I had traditionally worked in sectors that were closed because of the pandemic. I continue to push through. It was easy, but it wasn’t easy for my grandparents to live on rations during World War II to build bomber planes, it wasn’t easy for my grandparents to live during the Great Depression, it wasn’t easy for my parents to whether the financial crash of the 1980s, and the family medical issues. It wasn’t easy for our Neanderthal ancestors to Hun and gather all day long in the sun without sunscreen. This is not a new phenomenon. We live in mattresses with screens and DoorDash. Enjoy it.

it's the 'whats the point in governments and paying taxes' generation.

We are very angry. I, for one, will be providing NO support for any elderly boomer.

Millenial (34) here with burnout and depresion...

I really allways thought i was a unlucky bird with "Job jopping"... to see my fellow millenial fellows struggle with the same th!tty live on this planet slightly releave me a bit.

We are all born on top of a sinking ship, where we only were meant to be "rowing slaves" below deck.

Well... i wish us all Millenials a slightly meaningful live... hope we can at least get some meals that we can buy with our joke earnings...

Colpa anche della crisi del 2008? Eh se voi della NBC aveste parlato della bolla finanziaria dei derivati qualche anno prima dello scoppio, invece TUTTI zitti ... Inside job Charles Ferguson 2010

And it's getting worse..

Nothing has changed. Things are worse.

I'm watching this in February 2026 and... wow. Things are bleak.

All this.. It's still possible... Don't play victim, do something! Hard work and play it smart.

worth pondering until now.

The third punch will be WW3 in the next 10 years.

Im a,Millenial born in the wrong year 1981 I wish I was a,baby boomer cause this decade sucks

its still true

we WERE.
Gen Z is the unluckiest until Gen Alpha comes of age then they will be, but only until Gen C grows up, then they will be and so on.

Millennials were never forced or drafted in a war, didn’t live through any Depression, willingly took on their own student debt like the rest of us, and yet they’re still the unluckiest generation. Oh “but Covid messed them up more than anyone else” explain to me how they’re bigger victims of Covid when older generations are literally dying from it to this day. You’re not the unluckiest you just complain the most

Dont go to college. Dont get married. Dont have kids. Buy a used car. Learn a trade/skill.

I did only one of those. Learn from me.

It's not things are improving for zoomers and alpha.

You had 10 years to buy cheap bitcoin and take advantage of the greatest bull run in stock market history

That title.

I blame the baby boomers in our government

Sounds crazy, but in 10 years is when we’ll see actual change. Baby boomers will finally mostly be gone.

Just no these little waged wars against us have been completely purposeful they want you to be slaves working 5 jobs paying half your wages soo trump can give a massive tax break to the top which hes doing 🤔 billionaires, centralized banks just really put the steroids to money printer America had a surplus of 800 billion and now deficit is 36 trillion and going up because when you consistently print money and give majority of it to billionaires and corporations their nothing to fund anything this system needs to be torn down it works for 2000 families their 330 million people in America this is all mostly due to fiat wealth creation being weaponized against masses in the hands of a few

Lol most of your grand grand parents were colonial thieves😂😂😂

I tried to explain this to my grandparents and it fell on deaf ears

If the success outcome of your career/work life comes down to something as uncontrollable as the timing of when you enter the workforce, the system is inherently flawed and needs to be restructured. Throw it away!!!

Whiners

I think so. They're so hard to keep they own opportunity to develop their own carriers

The problem is that even without a recession and the pandemic, the social and economic framework that rewarded hard work, sacrifice, and delayed gratification is no longer there. The baby boomers were right to rebel against certain social issues, but they made too many changes without understanding them, confusing future generations with life lessons that did not match the reality.

Dumbed down by education system.

"Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times " - Unknown author

Boomers lived the good times.

Gen Z: “Hold my bottled water” (can’t afford beer)

Millenials we’re set up to fail by the Boomers, their own parents. We in Gen X skated through unnoticed by either Boomers or Millenials, both of which were too into themselves to even take notice. In the early 90s we experienced an awful job market. Most people started out with low-wage jobs. Granted, things were far cheaper, so even poor, we could afford a a cheap apartment. The whole American economy needs to be rethought.

Well if thats the case guess whos not getting grandkids and guess who has no more sympathy for old geezers no more.

Millennials are in their 40s now. The 20 years olds are Gen Z.

Get me off of this mortal coil. The world is a dumpster fire. I can’t believe this is the kind of existence that our species has created for itself. I just want to go sleep.

Oh that’s easy. Who needs work when you can just throw a few mil into stocks, crypto, and startups. Boom, billionaire era unlocked. 💅

They sound sad af. What happened to being grateful for making it thru.

Born unlucky, or victims of the lying & corrupt generation? Who knows.

This is a joke right? A parody of some sort... millenials are wimps and it's just getting worse from there. Boomers had it the easiest, millenials definitely did not have it rough except their feelings were being hurt. Too sensitive and too entitled these days

Millenials, definitely not. Gen Z had it the worst, but y'all seem to always forget we exist.

Millenials die in young age. This is so sick.and especialy mens.