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90s kids are too young to have genuinely been affected by most of this. They're mostly now in their mid 20s and have been in the workforce for less than a decade.
I think 70s and 80s kids saw a lot worse because the recessions actually affected their working lives.
As a 74, the recession in the early 90s was crushing as I entered the workforce. The Y2K Dotcom crash in 2000 ended my career in my mid 20s. The subprime meltdown hit me in my prime working years (34).
I'm born 94. I remember mowing lawns of the neighborhood and selling all of my pokemon cards in 2006 because my parents explain to me we were struggling. They didn't ask me to do it. I did it on my own. Because I wanted to help.
I didn't need to be and adult to experience an economic crisis. And it didn't exactly stop in 2007 either now did it?
I remember 2001 as well. It was a very big deal.
Y2k was nothing. Or so I was told when I asked what the fuzz is about. Since some people acted like the Mayan calendar was coming to an end.
So I don't see why you feel like you need to gatekeep who did and didn't "genuinly" experience certain events. Those who knows, knows. Isn't that enough?
You're might be thinking of Y2K and I'm talking about the Dotcom crash in the year 20000 where people like me lost our jobs.
Your experiences are valid, just different because you were a child during most of it. Even subprime you were just 14.
I also have memories of things my parents went through like nuclear protests, strikes, things like that, but I was more insulated to them as a child.
You say they are different. That's true. But that doesn't make it any less genuine or felt.
I may have been 12 when the economy turned sour in 2006. But so what? I can Guarantee you, I felt that just as much as anyone else.
Good for you that you were insulated from protests and strikes. I cant say I was insulated from an economy that collapsed. I didn't lose a job. Because I didn't have one. But that doesn't really seem to matter at all when I was affected by it just like everyone else.
I didn't lose a job. But I had to eat oatmeal 3 times a day. I chose to sell my stuff and do extra work to provide some extra money to my household. Because times were rough. So tell me again how me being a kid matters?
Are you really arguing that having no actual responsibilities is the same as having the weight of a collapsing world on your shoulders? Having been a kid, then a teenager, and now an adult, I can't even comprehend how someone can seriously make this argument.
No. That is not what I'm arguing. Would you like to read my comment again and apply more than a kindergarten level of reading comprehension?
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They also remember the before times, so they understand what was lost.
C'mon boomer. You had no competition since barely anyone was interested in software engineering. Now even my dog is trying to get in the game