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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

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

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years 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.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Not at millennials, there were 5 year old millennials

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

Either way, childhood were blissful years in the 90s

[-] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Unless you were an Iragi, a Yugoslavian, a Russian, yada yada yada.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years 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@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years 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.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

It was before everything was a controlled choice.

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