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What is the oldest you can be and still call yourself a millennial? Google says born in 1980s counts. I'm pretty sure I have all five.
Now excuse me while I avoid work while scrolling Lemmy. ;).
- 1986 here, and same. A lot of us older millennials have things pretty well figured out by now.
  
  And yet still every year you will make, functionally, less money than the last. You will get poorer and poorer and it took you longer to get settled than the generation before you.
  As a younger millenial, please don’t just slip into the same old tired horseshit that the people before you did. It’s not helping and a lot of millenials are definitely struggling where they shouldn’t have to.
  
  You're making some assumptions here that I won't look for another employer or won't get a promotion. With my promotion and pay raises, my pay did out pace inflation since I started this job in 2019. But, you're correct otherwise.
  As a younger millenial, please don’t just slip into the same old tired horseshit that the people before you did
  I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem is the same for Gen X and Millenials. Boomers absolutely refused to give up power and would rather die than retire. Feingold died and ruined her legacy, RBG died and ruined her legacy, Pelosi stayed in long enough to lead the democratic party to where it is now (neo conservative), Biden called it quits too late for a true primary basically handing over the country to whom he claimed was an existential threat ruining his legacy, we just elected the oldest person to ever to run for president... We never got our chance to run things. Our voices were crushed by the largest generation to exist. They were the party generation, and I'm afraid Gen Z and Alpha are more the hangover generations. With boomers finally being forced to retire or dying, I think we'll finally have a chance to at least start fixing some of the damage.
  
  And yet still every year you will make, functionally, less money than the last. You will get poorer and poorer and it took you longer to get settled than the generation before you.
  No I won't? I get raises above inflation, and I was married with a mortgage in my mid 20s.
  
  Well that’s a rarity, you must be absolutely raking it in at this point. Most places I’ve heard of tend to not even admit that inflation is real so that any raise they do offer barely, or doesn’t at all, covers inflation and isn’t really a raise at all.
- Yeah, these 5 things are at least partially dependent on each other, with some feedback mechanisms. Having healthy coping mechanisms makes it easier to have meaningful relationships. A satisfying career can lead to financial security. So can a meaningful relationship (dual earners with shared expenses tend to be pretty financially resilient). And all of the above can obviously feed into a will to live.
  I get some people are hurting, but it probably isn't helpful to try to say that literally nobody has these things. A substantial percentage of us do. Gen Z might be hurting even more, too, so focusing only on millennials is counterproductive.
- 1980, but it's more about the experience. Did you have a computer when you were young? AOL in highschool? Millennial.
  
  I requested AOL floppies so I could wipe them and reuse them for shareware. Does that count? ;)
  
  You wouldn't download a car, would you?
  
  i definitely sneakernetted test drive 3 on floppy disks
  
  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway"
  
  Or a pigeon stapled to a USB
- I was born in 1981 and from what I've seen technically that is the first year people are considered to be millennials. It's kind of a grey area though.
- Yeah this is why I disagree with the generation boundaries. I'm technically a millennial but I already owned my first home before the global financial crisis in 2008.

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