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Our economic prospects were kneecapped just as many of us should have been coming into our own. I don't think people were talking about millennials being particularly stunted or childish before 2008. That started in the aftermath of the Great Recession as we got wrecked by an economy of low employment, sparse or excessive hours, low worker and low worker power. We were also saddled with extreme amounts of student loan debt that we took in the expectation of a stable economy. These factors combined to make home ownership, or even moving out a pipedream for many of us.

The Great Depression generation had WWII and the New Deal to revive them and help them live normal lives. They had unions, college wasn't required. We've had the Great Recession, bailouts to further income inequality, a stagnant recovery, and now Covid and another recession when many of us are supposed to be reaching our peak incomes. It's not good, fam.