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вЂњI donвЂ™t blame you for not giving a f*ck, I see how f*cked your generation is.My daughter is a Millennial and we still help when we can because itвЂ™s gotten so much worse, pay has stagnated, but rent and cost of living is exponentially higher.вЂќ My first job out of college was $50k, well over 25 years ago. Especially since those weren't around back then.вЂќ

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And sometimes thanks to the internet, it feels like it's really easy to make money when you see all these YouTubers, pro gamers, OnlyFans, Instagram stars and crypto people making millions. Like the world is gonna burn in 20 years anyways, why the f*uck should I care about a career when it wonвЂ™t even make my remaining time here any easier?вЂќ

вЂњThis makes me feel like why do I bother trying? At this rate, I wonвЂ™t ever be able to move back out of my parents house (26, moved back in after a breakup) and it really demotivates me.

Millennials have it worse than me and I'm terrified what my kids will have to deal with.вЂќ All this on a high school drop-out union railroad salary. The school district I attended was regularly ranked No. My mom didn't work and I didn't know any other kids whose mom worked (in grade school anyways). I will acknowledge those guys could work a lot of overtime and he did work a decent amount. When he retired he was making the most he ever made on the railroad at $19 an hour.

вЂњMy dad dropped out of high school and went to Korea.

My mom wants out of the house and it will sell for over $300,000 when and if she ever sells.В вЂњ Dad died 21 years ago, but my mom still lives in the house they bought in 1972 for $27,000. My mom is a Boomer, but my dad was quite a bit older than her being born in 1931. I just found out he made less than I do now, and I live in his basement.вЂќ house and go on vacations three times a year.

вЂњMy dad worked a job where he could support two kids and my mom, in a 2,500 sq.

The good jobs we were expecting weren't there in 20 and we settled for less because we didn't have any other alternative.вЂќ Where I think the big hangup is for Millennials is that getting a degree isn't enough to attain that and it has its own challenges with debt that weren't explained to 18 year-olds signing up for a loan.

вЂњOnce those factories closed, the only guidance we received was that the only way to get that kind of lifestyle was to go to college and get a degree.

The towns were very prosperous and there were a lot of businesses catering to the real middle class of people who worked factory jobs but owned their own homes, had their own families and had enough disposable income to go to movies, casinos, bars, etc.вЂќ I can remember there being good factory jobs in the city I grew up in with strong unions.

вЂњI also think there is such a huge level of disparity between the world we grew up in, in terms of standard of living and the cost of things vs the conditions now that makes it less satisfying to live and work.

They're working-class, adult citizens with horribly paying, unsupportive jobs, paying rent or mortgages that the previous generations don't seem to grasp as a possibility.вЂќ I'm a child by the Boomers standards because I'm a Millennial. Here are some representative posts from the thousands of comments: They are the first generation in recent history that is worse-off financially than their parents. Millennials shared their stories of feeling cheated, lied to, misled and dealt a lousy hand in life. It quickly garnered more than 30 thousand upvotes. It makes you feel more inadequate then you already beat yourself up over.ДЄ Reddit post on a subreddit tapped into this zeitgeist. There are also multimillionaires, celebrities, Elon Musk-type billionaires, Bitcoin traders and others who are legitimately wealthy, brag and flaunt it on social media. You see some people pretending to live amazing luxurious lives on Instagram. With inflation running rampant, everything is expensive.

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