• Altima NEO
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    241 year ago

    Makes sense. Boomers were still young enough to be relevant. GenX was comfortable with their disposable income. And us millennials were in highschool.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      291 year ago

      GenX didn’t have much disposable income in 99, but you didn’t need much to have fun.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        In 99 people were throwing cash around like crazy, it was a wild time (before the dotcom crash)

        • SokathHisEyesOpen
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          141 year ago

          I guess the older Gen X could have been part of that. The younger ones were still finishing up college and just starting their careers when the economy crashed for the first, but not last time in their lives. The youngest ones joined the workforce just after the dot com bust.

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            • @Eyelessoozeguy
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              01 year ago

              Yeah and cost of living hasn’t changed right?

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        • @postmateDumbass
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          31 year ago

          Pre 9/11 it was pretty chill. All the externalities were hidden away from view.

    • @aidan
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      81 year ago

      Not at millennials, there were 5 year old millennials

          • Altima NEO
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            01 year ago

            Are these generational terms even used to describe people outside of America?

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Right? It’s less messy to compare and complain by generation than by the material conditions. Which aren’t particularly the fault of a generation whom also had their own owning class, their own labor and union involvement, as well as different relations to international finance capital.

              • Altima NEO
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                01 year ago

                Yeah, I mean baby boomers are only called that because it was American soldiers returning from war and having a ton of babies. I have no idea what was going on in other countries, or of they experienced a boom too.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Definitely in other Western countries, at least. Only makes sense for those countries that had a post-WW2 baby boom though.

          • @NightAuthor
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            71 year ago

            You may be a millennial in spirit, which is what really counts, but I don’t think most people typically consider people born after ~1995 millennials. Being shaped by the years 2000-2010 I always felt was the defining factor, with all that happened technologically and socially.

          • shastaxc
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            21 year ago

            Oh yeah?! You calling me a liar? Wanna fight about it?

    • @postmateDumbass
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      01 year ago

      It was before everything was a controlled choice.