Unpopular Opinion
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Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
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2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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Whelp here is a gen xer injecting themselves. Everyone earlier has it better than those after but to say its not far off is well. far off. Even with boomers to some degree. especially if you were a refular person. silent would be better. Silent started with the depression when they were babies and very young and then ww2 had rationing and such but they hit adulthood just as we got to post ww2 whereas the boomers were just being born. greatest generation got the benefits of the depressions social programs but dealt with a lot of the bad times that lead to it. silent started bad but their whole lives basically got better over time. Boomers too but like the youngest silent is just into 80's so a lot of them clocked out about covid and later. That is some good time to punch the ticket. Older boomers have it better than younger boomers and same with X. Boomers still had a chance of the family with 2.5 kids, free standing house with 2 cars and garage, and either vacation property or enough money to take regular vactaions. X it sorta seemed possible but most could not reach it although if you did well enough and made the right (for their personal enrichment) choices you could come close. Millenial you have to have done exceptionally well. So like Xers that became primary care doctors had that "typical" life. Im not sure what a millenial primary can even do that now. Might have to be a specialist. So to take my personal experience my silent gen parents were single income on a janitor job and had 7 kids, owned the 5 bedroom house we were raised in before they retired with social security, savings, and pension. My boomer elder brother worked the same janitor thing and never married but managed a 3 bedroom place and while smaller still got social security and a pension. I married but had no kids and have a 2 bedroom condo (for now) and am whittling away savings near the end of my career where I will have no pension and a relatively smaller social security. Pretty sure millenials in my (realtive) shoes won't ever own a place. Who knows maybe will manage an efficiency or with two incomes they might be able to have my relative level. Z even with two incomes I don't know unless things massively change.