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Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "Why The Millennial v. Gen Z War Should End" video.

You couldn't of been more accurate and true if you tried. Well done, I tip my hat to you.
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@Southforthewinter Friendster was more of a Gen X thing. MySpace was and will probably always be the first social media platform that Millennials discovered and took full advantage of. If you remember Tom as your friend, then you are a Millennial.
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@kimberleysmith4219 I stopped using Twitter. Never bothered with TikTok. Trust me, your life will be a lot better and fulfilling if you remove Twitter and TikTok permanently.
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@90skidcultist As someone who was born in the mid 1980s, I can tell you right now you are NOT a Millennial. You may act like one, you may like what Millennials did, but you are a Zoomer. That's like me trying to say I'm a Gen X dude even though I'm far off the mark. I will agree there is more of a distinction between Gen X and Millennials than there is with Millennials and Zoomers.
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@mindoablues I miss early 00s internet as well. Was awesome while it lasted.
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@Living_Dead_Girrl Gen X was the MTV generation. They helped pioneer the style of humor and juvenile comedy Beavis & Butthead made popular. I've spoken with many Gen X individuals and they say they aren't affected by jokes being slightly offensive. They came up with it was okay to be politically incorrect. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Tupac Shakur, two members of Gen X, couldn't give a fuck less what other people thought of them. And that is the main reason why I still respect them, even decades after their deaths. Most of my idols are from Gen X, including the grunge bands of the 1990s and the alternate bands that made up most of the 90s and early 2000s. Napster was more of a Gen X thing. That was the first time in history where the idea of torrents first came to fruition. YouTube was the first platform where Millennials were able to take advantage of torrented and pirated content, completely free. That's why I think every movie and TV series on here that you have to pay money to watch is practically useless. It's never been more easy to find torrents of your favorite shows and movies, all free of charge and without spending money. What Gen Z is getting is honestly not that much different than what Millennials went thru back in the mid - late 2000s and early 2010s. Only they're more brainwashed and diluted. Gen Alpha will likely be the first generation to utilize robots with advanced computer AI. If Millennials are the pioneers in digital technology, Gen Z and Gen Alpha will be utilizing robotic technology that we helped propel forward. You think a reality like Detroit: Become Human won't happen? Think again, because that is the direction we are heading.
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@Southforthewinter We can't just say white girls dude. A lot of white guys I know personally as well as white guys I associate with on social media have severe anxiety and depression. A sign of insecurity.
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@Benjumanjo People forget that Millennials were constantly shit on 10 - 15 years ago for many of the same things the Zoomers are being criticized for. Gen X looked down on Millennials. I've been a member on YouTube since early 2007 so I can safely say I was around back then to see that happening.
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You're acting like there is nothing wrong with Gen Z. It's our job to properly raise Gen Z, because whether people believe it or not, much of their generation was influenced by us. Forget about the Boomers, their time is done. I would say a few things about Gen X, but they are the guys that everyone has forgotten about and they're too old at this point to make any impact at all in regards to fashion or trends. We all overindulge and are obsessed with social media. My lesson to the Zoomers is don't believe everything you hear. Don't believe everything you're seeing. Don't trust anybody. These are life lessons that my parents instilled in me, and it's only right that the Zoomer kids that a portion of my generation is helping raise learn these lessons. Most of Gen Z is still kids. What we need to do is not repeat what the Boomers did to Millennials. Rather, we need to show them there is a bright future ahead of them if they put in the work and have the courage to overcome obstacles and barriers. Everybody looks at the stupid trends on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram and automatically blames Zoomers for all of it. That is not what we should be doing. If more Zoomers want to see a brighter future and a good life ahead of them, they need to learn to work for it and accept that not everything revolves around them. Many of my peers and those of us who are pushing 40 years of age are not doing our jobs properly. We got saddled by the Boomers and as a result of their selfishness and greed we're starting to exhibit the same kind of behaviors on our children. Those children being the Zoomers and for some of us, Generation Alpha. If the Greatest Generation was able to turn America around from the Great Depression into a superpower that people looked up to, then so can the younger generations. But until we already prove that we're willing to take action and have our children put in the hard work and dedication, then things are going to continue to decline. That isn't just one generation. Everybody is to blame, everyone is held accountable in these trying times we're living in.
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@ORIGINALCRESTED The Boomers and Gen X were told to grow up faster and live on their own when they were only 18 - 20 years of age. Mike Tyson practically lived on his own for most his entire life, and his early days of a boxer seemed to portray that he was older than he actually was. A lot of Millennials and Generation Z more often than not come off as overgrown manchildren. Look at PewDiePie, despite the fact he is in his 30s he comes off like a typical college aged kid.
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@Gaia Barone I'm the same. All of my idols were Baby Boomers and Gen X. Jackie Chan, Robin Williams, Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, the list goes on. Sadly, I don't think I can name anybody from the younger bracket of Millennials and virtually all of Generation Z that I would say would be a proper role model for me.
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@fchow7132 It is not. You typically aren't considered middle age until you are at least 40 - 45 years old or older.
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@alexman378 It's been said time and time again America is not taking care of their own. I'm sure a number of people who watched this video are outside of the United States and might not have learned English as their first language, though the video itself may resonate with them. Since people started going after teachers for disciplining the kids, we've seen the kids take a more cautious approach to anything they're not familiar with. That has only hurt them. I knew two kids in my life who went to their job interviews with their parents alongside them. That isn't preparing them for a future, that's the parent shielding them from harm, including the hiring manager who basically tossed them out once they saw what happened. That isn't progress, but rather regression. I've seen it in a lot of kids who suffer from low self esteem. They weren't given the tools to overcome a challenge or an obstacle. Instead of giving the kid to explore on their own, we're having parents track them on their smartphones and punishing them if they so much as walk a block away from their home. As an older Millennial, this attitude was far less commonplace back in the 1990s. Even in the early 2000s, I seem to remember sleeping in at a friends house, then spending the day outside exploring and doing things the usual teenager would do. The older Millennials are now the parents, and we haven't exactly been doing a great job.
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@thesilentsiren Generation X was cooler than either Millennials or Gen Z.
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@thesilentsiren That's not to say we weren't stupid back then either, but we were able to sign off our computers and spend the rest of the day playing with friends, or doing sleepovers. Zoomers are too busy consuming on their smartphones.
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@trestonmalone5072 For the average 14 - 16 year old kid, 30 years of age is old for them. I wouldn't waste my time on those kids, since they generally don't know what they're talking about most of the time anyway.
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@trestonmalone5072 I admire a lot of Gen X. I really do. Growing up I was exposed to a lot of their music, their movies and their styles. They were the cool guys who smoked dope and were able to say "I didn't give a fuck". Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and Pearl Jam are my favorite bands of all time. 2Pac is one of the greatest rappers who ever lived. Most of the music on my smartphone is music Gen X made. I cannot stand a lot of the younger Millennials. I cannot stand a lot of Zoomers either. Their priorities aren't straight either. You have Greta, who is a young woman concerned for the future of her generation. Then you have Kylie Jenner, a completely worthless socialite who is a poster girl for everything wrong with the Zoomers. Yet she has hundreds of millions of subscribers more on social media than Greta does. Greta is one of a select few who I actually admire, even if she gets all her ideas from older people in her life. Kylie Jenner hasn't done shit in her life. Her father, Bruce Jenner who is now a woman is just as bad, whom Kylie Jenner simply took from to get famous. The music the Zoomers are making nowadays makes the music Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears made seem like all time Grammy performances in comparison. That is not an exaggeration.
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@whyisthomyorke Social media back in 2006 largely catered to Millennials. Most everybody else didn't use it as much as we did. It was the norm that forum websites maintained an anonymity, we were encouraged to remain anonymous when we were young. Nowadays these kids are basically showcasing not only themselves on TikTok and Twitter, but also showcasing their entire homes, backyards, swimming pools and other members of their families. It's gotten out of control and it's one main reason why I miss the old days of the internet.
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@aswaney7449 I was influenced by a lot of Gen Xers growing up. It seems like you guys had a better sense of right and wrong. I also identify with the older millennials born in the early - mid 1980s. Those born at the tail end of the Millennial bracket I feel are too similar to Gen Z, evidenced in their tastes and their general attitude on Twitter. As someone born in the mid 1980s, I was just lucky enough to be one of the last kids to do things like build treehouses, spend entire afternoons outside, and do sleepovers and camp. All before helicopter parents became the norm. I consider those born in the late 1970s and earlier to be lucky. Sadly, most of the Millennial generation and virtually all of Gen Z is going to have to put up with extreme political correctness, dire climate change, and an increasing intolerance to most anybody who shares a different opinion. Hence, the cancel culture.
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@Living_Dead_Girrl Cable TV died over a decade ago. Baby Boomers are the only thing keeping it on life support. Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers all watch content either here on YouTube, or on Netflix/Amazon Prime. My sister aged 41 years old has everything on Amazon Prime. TVs are basically streaming platforms now and have been for quite some time. The only reason a family would bother to have any Cable TV or Traditional TV (which is even worse off) is if you live in some backwoods hick country somewhere where you cannot get decent internet. People living in the countryside are suffering, because they have fallen behind. Baby Boomers raised a lot of Millennials. That is a proven fact that can't be disputed. Gen X in contrast raised many of the Zoomers, so there's a notable difference. I cannot however, defend a lot of Zoomers as many aren't even in their early 20s. For the average person, your brain does not fully develop until you reach your early - mid 20s. I find a lot of Zoomer kids insufferable, all living off the college life where they throw parties and try to follow the latest fad on social media. Twitter is more catered to Millennials. TikTok is disgusting, and mostly caters to Zoomers who well.... don't know any better. I see some glimmer of hope in Greta Thunberg, who I feel at least is trying to fight global warming to preserve future generations. But she is still very young, and she hasn't exactly spread her wings to her full potential because she has several older figures in her life who are probably telling her what to do. Real greatness comes from taking action completely on your own. It's not living with your parents, having someone from an older generation guide your hand, or any of that. It's being completely on your own in the world, and making decisions that will influence and impact future generations. For example, old comedians like Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Robin Williams were all huge influences on the comedians that followed. Richard Pryor had a direct influence on Eddie Murphy. That's just what happens when you pass the torch. I'm going to skip most of your comment for later on, but here's the thing with Hollywood. Hollywood is one of the best tools for brainwashing western society. Doesn't matter what generation you pick from because it's always been like this. I've been to Southern California countless times in my life so I know how the culture is down there. In fact, I come from the state of California. The weather is nice, but the culture that comes out of Hollywood is just disgusting now. Plus, I got tired of the smog there. I don't like the woke movement, if that offends you then I'm sorry, I just have to come out with it. I don't like how they've infiltrated the comic book industry. I used to be a huge comic book guy, I've read hundreds of old Marvel and DC Universe comic books. But I absolutely cannot stand modern comic books because they instill this woke narrative that makes them intolerable to read. This same woke movement has not infiltrated video games. Anime at least still has some credibility and merit, I find it far more interesting than either western cartoons or western comic books, such as the aforementioned Marvel. You can call me a "weeb", I don't care. If the world situation was better and I had the means and money, I'd move to Japan. Japanese culture always fascinated me. I'll respond to the rest of your comment for a later time, since I'm currently at work.
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The whole participation trophy shit needs to stop at this point.
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Generation X did the torn blue jeans better.
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@Amit P. Bharath I wouldn't pay attention to him. He's just a butthurt Zoomer who hates Millennials for basically whatever. The tide pod challenge just sealed the deal for me.
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@ShermanWilliamsVideo The 2008 Financial Crash was the "first" financial crisis. COVID-19 is the "second" financial crisis.
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@magdalenasanecka2396 It's just stupid kids on social media. Once they grow up and reach their 30s and 40s, they will hopefully have matured enough to not play stupid culture wars.
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@tinaUNDAcova Most of their generation is 14 - 20 year old kids who aren't mature enough to understand a lot of things. They're inexperienced. We forget that many of us were the same way. Teenagers in general tend to be annoying to a lot of older people. It's a cycle of life. The Zoomers are just using technology that the older generations laid down for them.
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We didn't have near the braindead behavior and absolute narcissism back in the 90s and early 2000s when we were growing up as kids. Honestly I just miss the old days of MySpace, YouTube and Facebook. You can argue we were stupid in much the same manner as many Zoomer kids are today back in the day, but I tend to think we weren't so triggered with petty bullshit. The events of the past 4 - 5 years, since the 2016 US Presidential Elections, has really put a number on this generation. I'm glad I grew up when the internet social media landscape largely catered to Millennials before everybody and their dick grandfather jumped on the bandwagon. Everybody says Facebook is shit, but I recall a time when it was "cool" and "great" because it initially appealed to college kids. I was one of the early goers of Twitter, we poked around and had fun long before politics infested the website. I miss the old internet. I was a socially awkward kid with Autism, and the internet in the old days was my safe retreat considering that I was called "different". Now the internet is filled with so much of that bullshit I once sought to escape from, filled with all that garbage the normies post on an everyday basis.
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A lot of my peers got fired for posting angry comments regarding their superiors at their jobs when I worked at McDonalds and Walmart circa 2008 - 2011. Definitely was a hard learning lesson for them. The old days of Facebook and MySpace was full of idiocy, but we were better tuned to not take bullshit so seriously and we could sign off. Back then most of us had flip phones that were incapable of accessing the internet in a timely manner so we had to use a laptop or desktop to access the internet. Many computers were hooked wired to the internet, since WI-FI was pretty bad with weak reception in those days. As far as I'm concerned, the era that was 2003 - 2006 was the last of the "Golden Era" of the internet. It was great while it lasted. We used Newgrounds, shared music on MySpace, hanged out on Facebook back when it was targeted to college students, whom Mark Zuckerberg was at the time he made the website. The big difference is we came up when the internet was still innovating and expanding. The Zoomers are coming up when it has long been established, and are more prone to being swayed by "influencers". Our generation had to work harder to find information. Wikipedia in its early days was far less vast and much smaller than it is today. I miss the early - mid 2000s.
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@timothyrday1390 I miss those days. Believe me. I get tired of these Zoomer kids acting like they're King Shit and think anybody older than them is wrong. When you grow up kids, you'll hopefully learn there is more to life than living off of Twitter and disagreeing with anybody who offers a different opinion. Then again, they dwell inside their homes all the time and rarely venture outside. They haven't "touched grass", which has now become a popular term for a lot of Zoomers nowadays.
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The average lifespan is around 80 years old, or just under it. So that means reaching the age of 40 - 45 years old makes you middle aged. My sister is 40 years old, I'm a few years younger and I'm just shy of my late 30s. The older Millennials are certainly approaching that.
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@Living_Dead_Girrl The older Millennials got lucky. You along with your peers were the first of your generation to get the short end of the stick. You guys fought a war in Iraq under false pretenses. George W Bush preached the so called "War on Terror", Obama only continued where he left off. America is fucked though. I already knew some people born around the same year you were (1987) who died either due to cancer, to drugs, to accidents (mostly likely under the influence), or by committing suicide. The Zoomers are braindead. Can't stand most of them, and their role models are nearly non-existent.
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@ORIGINALCRESTED California doesn’t have a good K thru 12 education system. I lived in California for a time so I know this first hand. Universities are fairly good, but you need to pay a lot for education, for any university really. I’m 34 soon to be 35 years old so I pretty much see where you’re coming from. I wouldn’t classify you as part of the oldest Millennials, you are in the middle. Younger Millennials identity with Zoomers much more easily than they do with older Millennials. The older bracket are more similar to Gen X, who on the outside seemed to be the rebel, do it my own way generation. I was no doubt influenced by Gen X, I was brought up by them so I have more of a rebellious attitude than others might. Zoomers have promise, but unfortunately I don’t see things improving for a while. I have respect for Greta Thunberg, she is a young woman concerned for climate change and I’m completely on board for her. You need role models and people in your inner life who can motivate you. You also need a bit of a father figure to better understand what it means to be a responsible man. My generation has too many ‘beta males’, ‘soy men’ and men who don’t want to take leadership positions. I’ve seen a lot of my peers who fit these traits, despite the fact they’re well in their 30s. Sometimes I have to wonder if they ever left college.
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@sandpiperr You're right. They don't care about anybody but their own. I hate both the Boomers and the Zoomers. One ruined America. The other is too young, stupid and clueless to do anything about repairing the damage that's been done to America.
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@ORIGINALCRESTED You're relating to people who are over a decade younger than you. I'm in the same age group as you, born in the mid 1980s, and the peers who are one to two years older and the ones who are one to two years younger are the people I can relate to the most. We grew up with similar things, we grew up in the same time period, we both shared many of the same interests as we entered high school and paid for college tuition when we entered college. We were also subject to the tech boom, which a lot of people here have forgotten. The Zoomer kids were literally just infants when the tech crash happened shortly before 9/11. I cannot relate to a lot of Zoomer kids because they all love the bullshit that I cannot stand. TikTok. Internet challenges like that stupid Tide Pod challenge. Thinks popularity is more important than individuality. The list goes on. There are some Zoomer kids that I've been friends and are quite nice people, who had good parents raise them. But this culture wars bullshit fiasco is what separates us. The obnoxious Zoomer kids are the ones writing in the YouTube comments section. But I think it stands that I feel many will agree with me when those of us born in the mid 1980s and before cannot relate to Zoomer kids born in 1998 - 2003. There is too much of a generation gap there, plus all the technological changes that they were subject to witnessing growing up were vastly different than what we experienced growing up. Generation X was the last generation to truly see an analog world before there was an internet. Millennials were the first to witness the internet age, which is why so many of us have clung to digital technology, and people like Aaron Swartz are regarded as pioneers. Zoomers are coming of age when the Golden Era of the internet is long gone. Everything was already laid out for them when they started the culture wars crap.
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@reneerodriguez7368 This is nothing new. They were already taking out World War II history back in the early 2000s. I was there to witness it. The fact of the matter is, America has had a lot of violence and shortcomings in it's relatively short history of a country. These kids know nothing about Abraham Lincoln, or what Martin Luther King Jr did during the Civil Rights Movement. So they end up like so many other young people in their early - mid 20s, ignorant. They are not stupid, but they are ignorant of a lot of things in general. The problem points at the poor education system. Getting training for a lot of jobs costs a lot of money, so that's honestly no different than spending tens of thousands of dollars to attend a four year university. Most people in their 20s and 30s aren't even aware that Japanese Americans were put into camps during World War II because of fear they were associating with the Japanese who were fighting during the war. It was terrible, as was everything regarding the war, but it's something the kids need to know. They don't know anything about segregation laws and how the Civil Rights Movement tried to take them down in the 1960s either. Just like they don't know about the events that led to the Financial Crash of 2008. The old platitude, "Those who don't learn history are bound to repeat it", will ring true in due time.
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@trestonmalone5072 Millennials just copied what Generation X already started. A lot of the boy bands of the 90s including people like Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears copied much of what Gen X already laid out for them.
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@thesilentsiren Actually it was the Millennials who came up with the toxic cancel culture. The Zoomers basically made it the norm. Pop music sucks now. It's basically a rehash of what came out 10 - 15 years ago. Movies nowadays are basically superhero blockbusters that all have the same plots and themes. Not too much different from the 90s blockbusters and the superhero flicks of the early - mid 2000s.
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This happens all the time on Twitter.
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Millennials and Zoomers.
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@whyisthomyorke Reddit is full on cancer culture. Finally deleted my account after being there for several years, and I have no intention of ever using Reddit ever again. It can die in a fire, along with TikTok and Twitter.
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@mindoablues I feel this way with movies like Napoleon Dynamite. We had some awesome movies with good juvenile comedy back in the day. I was a huge Adam Sandler fan growing up. Watched all of his old stuff. Rob Schneider was pretty good too. Some of those jokes they did would definitely get you in trouble today. As a matter of fact, Dave Chappelle is under fire for some of his jokes. It's truly pathetic. Back in 2004 - 2005 I don't think anybody would of gave a shit about how offensive some of his jokes were. Loved Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central back in the day. I don't think you could recreate that today, which is a shame.
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Generation X felt this way before they hit their 30s. A lot of your music artists and bands expressed this in their songs they made back in the 90s and early 2000s.
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America was better off in those days anyway. Nowadays the parents keep their Zoomer kids on a leash while they consume all the bullshit on TikTok and Twitter. Smartphones are one of the easiest ways to spy on people.
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@aswaney7449 Generation X isn't coming out bitching and crying like the Millennials and Zoomers are. I mean, it's true they're typically forgotten now, but they haven't been the target audience in a long time. I was in my mid - late teens with 9/11 happened, and it's a memory that I'll always have. The Baby Boomers screwed everybody that came after them, including Generation X. I identify with older Millennials and Generation X. I cannot identify with people born after the late 80s - early 90s. There is too much of a generation gap between me and somebody born in 1994 -1996, even though they are technically still called Millennials. We were exposed to a lot of Gen X stuff growing up, so many of my idols came from that generation. Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation don't have a better sense of right and wrong either. Just look at Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Both are incompetent and they cannot run a country.
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@Living_Dead_Girrl Let's correct some things here. First off, I'm in my mid 30s. I was born before you. I was there firsthand to see a lot of kids getting suckered into the military back in the mid 2000s, largely thanks to the failed "War on Terror" and George W Bush being one of the worst presidents the US ever had. Second, Kurt Cobain was most certainly a Gen X. He hated a lot of shit. Fame, Hollywood, a number of his peers, you name it. I was brought up in the state where Grunge was made circa 1989 - 1991, during the dying days of Hair Metal. I'm from Washington State, and I was exposed to Grunge firsthand, just like your aging mother was exposed to the JFK assassination. It's something you never forget. Hair Metal was cliche, boring and formulaic. Grunge brought a new sound into the Rock genre. So where does that place Kurt Cobain? He was born after the Baby Boomers, he was born before a lot of Gen X individuals. So are we starting to label people on the edge those who aren't really in the supposed brackets America has labeled the specific generations? That's bullshit. Tupac Shakur was born in June 1971. Biggie Smalls was born in 1972. They were most certainly Gen X musicians. Their style and delivery resonated with many of their peers. You cannot tell me the culture they represented was the Baby Boomers as a whole. Maybe the late Boomers, those born in the early 1960s, but not the entire generation. Baby Boomers influenced the record labels and brought up these Gen X musicians. But Gen X was its own culture. A large portion of their generation fueled the counter culture movement of the early - mid 1990s. Grunge and Gangsta Rap hit their prime in that time period. The Boomers were responsible for the birth of the internet while living off the high tide of the 1990s economy. Gen X lived off a portion of it. Millennials were too young and incapable of doing anything until at least the early 2000s. By that point, 9/11 already happened and George W Bush and his military was already sending young soldiers to Iraq. Most of the Zoomers are in high school and younger. But their older brethren are living a false reality. They were too young to understand and remember 9/11 and the Financial Crash of 2008. Everybody was too focused slinging dirt on the Millennials. You, of course, praise your own generation, whether you admit it or not. Every single person, or I should say every other person I have met both on the internet and in person praises their own generation as the greatest since sliced bread. That's why I get fucking pissed off when Zoomers bitch over petty bullshit. It's easy to fucking do that when you're only 16 years old and you barely know life. I'm over twice that age, and I'm older than you so I have actual experience in knowing what our generation has done. Everybody you mentioned including Aaron Swartz that was/is a member of Gen Y was heavily involved with technology. That's mostly what we've done that has been the most beneficial. We're the first generation to embrace social media. Edward Snowden and Manning already know this. So does Mark Zuckerberg, whose own product I feel has done more harm than good. Kurt Cobain living a rough life and hated most of everything, which resorted to him using drugs and being dead at the young age of 27. I supported everything you said until you made this comment. You praise most everything your generation did. That's the cycle. We hate Baby Boomers because they're the old guys stuck in the past. We hate Gen X because they got lucky while we lucked out. We hate Zoomers because they are the equivalent of the snot nosed piece of shit brat who just entered high school. But our own generation? We're the greatest. We haven't done any wrongdoing, regardless of what other generations think. Pretty soon we're going to be the 60 year old fart that every young person fucking hates while the people older are too old and senile to give a flying fuck. You didn't even bother to comment on anything I said about my time at Dollar Tree, so why am I wasting my time talking to you?
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@thelittlerawker You're a loudmouth on the Spider Man franchise.
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@Living_Dead_Girrl You responded to me but then immediately deleted your comment. What were you trying to say towards me?
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@Living_Dead_Girrl I'm still over a year older than you, I'm in my mid 30s and even though I understand everything you're saying, I feel like it's beginning to be too late to turn the tide. There was a lot of Jimi Hendrix influence not just in Gen X bands, but also in Baby Boomer era bands. There's a good reason why he still remains one of the best rock guitarists of all time. A number of these bands have Hendrix like bits and pieces if you listen closely to some of the songs they made. Punk Rock predated Grunge by over a decade. It was a subculture in the late 1970s, early 1980s that the mainstream generally resented and disliked. Grunge, like Punk before it, was in many respects rebel music. Rock has long been associated with rebellion, stretching back several decades. Millennials have been stomped on and picked on since the early 2000s. If I didn't know any better, a portion of our generation still come off as high school kids who are manchildren. I look at some of my peers approaching their mid - late 30s and it seems like they never progressed past high school mentally. They still fucking post shit content on Instagram. They still drone like tired Baby Boomers on Reddit and Facebook. They still portray themselves as 'influencers' on YouTube when they are actually brainwashing the youth into thinking a materialistic lifestyle is the only thing that matters. On and on and on. We still refuse to take up leadership positions. And in some places in America and elsewhere you can see the fine work MIllennials are doing. Baby Boomers are the common scapegoat. They're the old farts still living off of Social Security, that will be completely non-existent by the time Millennials reach retirement age. They were truly the first and last generation to really live a wondrous lifestyle, brought by the boom of mid 20th century America that would then conclude with the Tech Boom of the 1990s. 9/11 was bad. The Housing Crisis and the 2008 Financial Crash was bad. 2013 was bad for the reasons you stated. But we need to move on. If we want to be remembered as something better, we need to work for it. Unfortunately, most of my generation isn't doing much of anything to turn the tide of things. We're still sitting in our glass houses soaking up Netflix, Amazon Prime and dozens of other live stream services. We're letting the decline of western society continue rather than try to stop it. The power elite and the extreme wealthy who are running our world are absolutely loving where things are right now.
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@sregan5415 I don't understand how people cringe over "Harry Potter houses". Many Millennials loved Harry Potter, especially if they were in the younger age bracket of their generation. The actors who played the main cast (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson) in the movies are all Millennials. It doesn't make sense to me that a Zoomer automatically hates Harry Potter just because.
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@rubberrooster7804 Millennials had a different childhood in contrast to the Zoomers. But both generations have a very similar fashion in dealing with life, which is why I can't stand a lot of these people.
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@Glutimous Maximous So true.
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You get bonus points for having a dinosaur Windows operating system as your avatar and YouTube name.
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The schools didn't start with participation awards until a bit after when you started entering high school and college. That was right when school administrators started taking discipline out of schools so they wouldn't get angry parents mad at them for punishing their children. The poor education system in America as far as the K thru 12th grade system is concerned has really done a number on the kids. We have a number of good colleges and universities, but you need to pay a lot of money towards them or prepare to be dwelling in student debt.
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The fact of the matter is every generation aspires to do just what you're saying, just in a different style. Hippies called out the World War 2 generation for being too old fashioned. Gen X bashed the Baby Boomers and Silent generations, creating their own styles of music and rebelling against the norm. Zoomer kids are trying to invoke change thru technology. But right now your only shining beacon of light is Greta Thunberg, who is only 18 years old. If she wants to truly set an example, then she needs to earn her keep and stop relying on older people to give her advice all the time. Nothing is going to change until the Baby Boomer generation finally dies out and the Millennials and Zoomer kids can actually work to achieve things. Not sitting around in isolation all fucking day while screaming to hell and back on Twitter and TikTok. That accomplishes nothing. It would also be appreciated if you kids didn't idolize Kylie Jenner so much. Hopefully you kids will learn, grow, mature and have a better understanding of the world once your generation reaches the age of 30.
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@Southforthewinter That's because the Bay Area California has Silicon Valley, the father of computer technology as we know it. I lived in California in that area, so I know how people were over there. The Midwest is typically more conservative, isn't as quick to adapt to changes and has a more down to earth point of view regarding life in general. Thankfully I no longer live in the Bay Area, as it is now a liberal infested shithole where extremists tell you to say your opinion is wrong because of political correctness.
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@Southforthewinter 1. It's pretty obvious when you got platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram that are all in favor of looks over substance. Normal looking people don't have a fucking chance. It's why a lot of young people, especially a lot of white people here in America, are trying to seek validation. Back when we first had MySpace, there wasn't near the validation aspect as we're seeing today. It's sad to see our youth be subject to this crap, and for them to be part of the incel community is disgusting, to say the least. 2. Honestly, I can't blame anybody for leaving California. It was the shit back in the 80s and 90s, but it's a political infested shithole that tries to 'cancel' those who are perceived as different. You didn't have near the amount of extreme leftists back in 2005 in the Bay Area. Liberals in general used to be a lot more reasonable. Now they're too far in outer space, while the Conservatives in California hopelessly dwell in the past.
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@90skidcultist Nah dude. It was MySpace. Facebook also brought in the Baby Boomers, Gen X of course was also on it. When Facebook started back in the mid 2000s, it was Millennials, who were at that time going to high school and college. Mark Zuckerberg himself is a Millennial, who intentionally intended for his platform to connect with college students via social networking. Of course, we all know what happened. Facebook became a behemoth and now it is nothing at all like it was back in the day.
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@ronan7695 Friendster was probably the first big social media platform. It predates MySpace, which didn’t become a thing until 2004 or so.
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@LeahWalentosky That's been happening for multiple generations. Young people want to move to the city and get noticed. Old people want to move to the country to be left alone and in solitude. It's nothing new.
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@AK-yx3qf I get it. Millennials were the loudest to speak up on Gay Marriage, when it finally got legalized in 2015 we jumped for joy over it. Same with the legalization of Marijuana in some US states. The entire culture wars thing is stupid and was always stupid. The 2007 - 2008 economic crash affected a lot of Baby Boomers negatively, as did Generation X. Your older Millennials back then were in their mid - late 20s, not quite old enough to have made a notable impact on the American economy, or even culturally. Today in 2021 we're started to see the older bracket of Millennials enter positions of authority and making an impact on administrative duties. But it will be another decade before many of them will take control as Baby Boomers and Generation X still control the mainstream media. The Zoomers are just that.... self entitled kids. We used to be the same. So did Generation X. So did the Baby Boomers. The Boomers were criticized for their long hair and Hippie like behaviors. Generation X was criticized for not caring enough and smoking too much crack. Millennials were criticized for being too butthurt about everything. The Zoomers of today are, for the most part, picking up where we left off. Zoomers are people born between 1996 - 2010. You just have to look at the numbers to see that most of them are still kids and teenagers. It may be unfair to criticize them, but all the past generations have gotten the same treatment. We were subject to the same bullshit 10 - 15 years ago, just like how Gen X was received back in the 1990s. Kids are kids. We shouldn't judge Zoomers too much until they hit their 30s at least. I think it's fair nowadays to judge Millennials, as most of them are in the age 30 bracket and older. They've already had several years of work experience after leaving college in their early - mid 20s, and therefore I think they should the ones getting judged. Not the Zoomers.
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@LeahWalentosky You guys are still kids.
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@Benjumanjo What is that supposed to mean?
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@Not-Ap Are you speaking of the Millennials or the Zoomers? I can't really identity with the Zoomer generation too much. Their politics and ideologies don't sit well with me. As a Millennial, I find that I'm regularly having to defend myself against younger people who can't accept no as an answer.
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Looks can only get you so far. Gen X realized this once they reached a certain point in their lives. These are all generalizations that are true to a certain extent, but this is really just a stupid culture war that happens in every generation. Who knew that angry, tired 30 some year old butthurt Millennials would get into a war with brat Zoomer kids barely out of high school and college that think "influencers" is actually a career? It's all a bunch of utter nonsense, and it's a good reason why we're generally isolated and divisive, regardless if COVID happened or not.
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@TomikaKelly Gen X didn't give a shit about some things but the things they cared about, they weren't standing on their soapboxes trying to "cancel" out the other person who disagreed with them. They learned not to try to silence the other person, which the Zoomers are doing just that to get their points across. That's the glaring difference between Gen X and the Zoomers. The Millennials were basically sandwiched and told everything will come for them when they finish college only to see them fail because of horrendous debt from college tuitions. The Housing Crisis/Financial Crash the Baby Boomers largely contributed to didn't help the Millennials either, so they already experienced a financial crisis when they were barely in their early - mid 20s. The Zoomers are arrogant. They haven't proved anything. Greta is the only shining light that they have. Everybody else including Kylie Jenner is a poser.
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@bizyizziaz4831 Reagan resonated with a lot of Baby Boomers, NOT Gen X. A lot of Boomers will tell you Reagan in more ways than one started the decline in America.
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@Living_Dead_Girrl Oh believe me, I remember that. The US military was going to these high school and college fairs back in 2003 - 2006 to get these kids to serve in the Iraq War. The entire war was fought under false pretenses and false hope. These kids didn't know anything, because they were too young and inexperienced. Those kids who are now in their mid 30s, my very peers that you and I both have. Nothing is being done. Nothing is being accomplished. These corporate scumbags to me are just another Bernie Madoff. A rich dude who took advantage of all the poor souls and ruined their entire livelihoods because he took away everything they worked for. There are plenty of people in America out there who are like him, but they aren't getting caught. The Financial Crisis of 2008 should of been a big wake up call. But we either turned a blind eye, or were subject to the system already, to the point where we could do nothing about it. It is quite clear that many of my brethren in their mid to late 30s are contemplating suicide. We indulged in sugary products and soft drinks and we now have diabetes at an early age. I worked at a Dollar Tree Warehouse back in 2012 to roughly 2014/early 2015. I was forced to work 55 - 60 hour weeks. Sometimes, I had to work seven days a week. What did I get for all that time being there? Nothing. I was treated like shit. I was treated like cattle. The managers couldn't give a fuck less. The turnover rate was so high it was ridiculous. Kids aged 18 to 24 years old who were already broken after three years or so of hard physical labor. I could get nothing done at home. That overtime pay was basically money I had to use to recuperate. And still, drinking all those Monster Energy shitstains, eating junk food just to get my sugar intake, and eat crap just to get enough calories to do a hard physical labor job took their toll on me. All the while, managers belittled me and told me I didn't work hard enough, despite the fact I was there for at least six days a week. My fellow peers who were approaching their late 20s and early 30s took to using meth. A good number of us were using meth to get by with this no progression job. Eventually, I was fired because my back was hurting. I couldn't keep up with the demands. Dollar Tree fired me and I could not get any unemployment. In the months afterwards, job recruiters turned me down for the simple fact that I was fired. The fucking system is a complete joke. Most of us would be lucky to reach the age of 60 years old, let alone 70 - 80 years of age. Bad health, low self esteem, my peers having suicidal tendencies, catching diabetes early in life and having no hope for the future. That 1980s/1990s nostalgia never looked more sweet and feelgood than it does now.
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@samf.s.7731 I think the idea of middle age has changed significantly over the years. Reaching your mid 30s used to be considered middle age, but people are living longer and not progressing as fast so I think that should be changed to mid 40s and 50s. The fact of the matter is, most Millennials are suffering from some sort of debt. I know some of them in their mid 30s and it is unlikely they will ever pay back that college debt. Baby Boomers got lucky. So did Gen X. In my mind, September 11th, 2001 along with the Financial Crisis of 2007 - 2008 changed everything. The Housing Crash of 2007 really put a number on the Millennial generation. They couldn't afford even a cheap, run down house, they had to take out loans to pay for other expenses. My 69 year old dad was able to pay for a home back in 1976, his own money he got from working starting at age 16 while going to college full time. It is virtually unthinkable that Gen Z, who are around college age now, could even get an opportunity to have their own home in their early 20s, let alone afford it. Many Millennials in their mid - late 30s can barely look after their own kids. I'm talking people with only one or two kids, not multiple children. The Boomers ruined America, and I pretty much see that as a fact, not an opinion. Gen X was just lucky enough to take advantage of the jobs and careers the Boomers created. Millennials were unfortunately scrapped, and when 9/11 and later the Housing Crisis happened, the era of living a good life with a good flexible income is over. You need a Master's Degree to get anything halfway decent anymore. That of course, is going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars in college tuition. Something that most of my peers cannot afford, despite the fact they are in their mid - late 30s. Don't think that most Zoomers, who are barely 25 years old at most, are going to afford paying all the money to get a decent education in this country.
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@jamielives2483 You are still a Millennial. You were just a kid when you saw those commercials. Those who took full advantage of those commercials were Gen X, who were of working age back in the 1990s.
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@ORIGINALCRESTED I don't know what country you hail from but here in America, kids in the 1980s and 1990s were raised in a Baby Boomer economy. I was one of those kids growing up. We had a middle class structure where the Baby Boomer male was able to land jobs with promising careers and benefits once they finished their Bachelors Degree in their specified field. Today, you need a Masters Degree to get anything decent. Don't rely on having children if you are a single parent. They cost too much money and the rise of college tuition and job training has prevented many people from getting the education we need. Then we wonder why our American education system is in the dumps. Our economy forces us to work more for less. Jobs don't give near the benefits they did 25 - 30 years ago. Also, jobs are constantly being shipped overseas so corporations don't have to pay as much for employees. So you're left with a generation of 30 something year olds who are more lazy and useless than their parents were. Zoomers are basically walking in the footsteps of the Millennials. Both are equally screwed in the long run. The main difference I see is the fact that many Millennials had a far better childhood than the Zoomers have. Now we have Zoomers on Discord, Twitter and Instagram wishing to kill themselves, when they've barely experienced the real world. It's a truly sad situation that isn't going to get better anytime soon.
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@endorkugo Zoomers have it worse. Millennials are seeing the aftermath that started with 9/11, the Iraq War, the Financial Crash and the Edward Snowden incident. Zoomers in contrast are seeing the aftermath of COVID-19. It's very sad, considering that I've been in some private Discord groups when these kids and it's truly frightening to hear what they have to say about their futures.
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I don't either. We're better off thinking this way.
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@FatNorthernBigot You're older than Queen Latifah and The Rock (Dwayne Johnson). Just a little younger than Will Smith. To this day I have to say I admire a number of you guys. Your generation brought in good music. You ushered in grunge music and classic gangsta rap, before it became watered down and dumbed down. Can't forget Adam Sandler and Will Farrell. Dave Chappelle too. He doesn't deserve all the criticism he's getting. You were the guys who knew when to step back and say "Who gives a flying fuck". Something that Millennials and Zoomers, for the most part, can't seem to understand. You may be referred to as the 'Forgotten Generation' nowadays, but growing up I was influenced by a lot of you guys. Your generation knew how to be laid back and be cool without being a sell out.
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@FatNorthernBigot Even in 1996, which I assume you were 27 back then, you probably didn't use the internet for more than a few minutes. Maybe 30 minutes to a hour at the very most. Dial up internet deterred a lot of people. Too many people now just consume whatever is on the internet and it is affecting their moods.
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@sandpiperr So what? Zoomers were brainwashed by their parents and teachers. The teachers can no longer discipline the kids at the schools because that is considered abuse. In reality, much of that discipline was to prepare the kids for the real world. Everybody likes to boast about their own generation being the best. Millennials especially, but I can tell you from experience that we’re not taking care of my own. COVID-19 has made everything worse. Millennials are usually the first ones to cry and bitch from their soapboxes, but don’t want to do much of anything to solve the problems. Our so called role models, like NBA superstars Lebron James and Stephen Curry, spend more time bitching on their Twitter accounts than they are working together to solve problems. This also applies to our singers like Rihanna and Chris Brown. We don’t want to take responsibility, and we have shown that time and time again. You lead by example, and the kids will follow. The Zoomer kids were no doubt influenced by us, and they’re even more self absorbed because of their obsession with social media. We were the first generation to be absorbed by social media. We were the pioneers of Facebook and Twitter, but the social media spectrum has gotten out of control. Every other person is now an addict. Social media is to this generation what alcohol, crack and cocaine were to older generations. We need to stop throwing Baby Boomers under the bus for everything and actually make positive changes so future generations can have a bright world to look forward. This constant need to shove the current political landscape to apply to everything solves nothing. Sitting around crying about how COVID-19 ruined your life solves nothing. This nonsense talk about global warming posing a serious threat for our kids solves nothing. The truth is Earth is approaching warmer temperatures while our ice caps melt. This is going to significantly impact future generations to where they will have to come up with alternatives for something as simple as basic gardening. I hate a lot of my own peers. We constantly talk but do little to take action. Our childhoods in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s were marked by our parents constantly giving us stuff, so many of us don’t know the real meaning of hard work. I say this from experience. If we want to invoke changes, we need to change our attitude. I expect things to get worse before they get better.
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@ORIGINALCRESTED Yes, that is what I base my channel around.
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@gamma21285 What took you so long in replying to me?
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@reneerodriguez7368 Well it's basically altering history at one's will. Happens all the time on the internet. That's why Wikipedia wasn't and will never be a reliable source of information.
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It's mostly an American thing. Other countries for the most part don't care about the culture wars.
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@anamarte7547 It won't end until the Boomers do die off. In my mind they are holding us back. I'm just tired of all the depression, anxiety, guilt and autism spasm attacks Millennials like to inflict on others and on themselves, but it's the cold truth. I'm in my mid 30s, and I've already seen the worst of my generation. My 37 year old cousin had to move back in with his dad for a while because he couldn't hold on to his house. He does work on installing doors for a living, and while he enjoys his work he's not getting the money he deserves. The Boomers took advantage of a booming economy decades ago, and left us younger folk fending for the scraps left on the table. The Zoomers are already repeating what we did a decade ago. And they're falling in the same traps that we did. We should be looking forward to positive change and crafting a better future for future generations to reside in. But until drastic change happens, I think things will continue to get worse. Joe Biden's ever declining approval rate as US President should be telling enough for most of us.
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