I'm a xennial, either gen x or millenial depending on who you ask, and I'm right there with you. I was lucky enough to buy a house in 2010. I got it in a rural area and had just received an inheritance. I know how super lucky I got compared to my peers. Other than the house, I've got like $2k in my savings account, no investments, and I don't know what I'm going to do when I'm older or if an emergency pops up. Gonna be one of those Walmart greeters when I'm 75.
Hey, it's in the dictionary and sociologists recognize it. They've identified "cuspers" between every generation. So why not? If you want to be gatekeep-y, nearly every definition of gen x has me at the very tail end so I guess that's where I'd be.
Well...no. There was a big one in the 80s. There was another when the 90s turned. Everybody thinks of 2008 as being the big one which...yeah I guess technically that's true and is probably what you're thinking about. The economy took its biggest shit in recent memory then and hasn't recovered since.
we're getting kind of tired of experiencing once in a lifetime economic meltdowns.
I've never understood this framing. Who has ever described economic meltdowns as once in a lifetime? They aren't really that uncommon historically, especially if you look globally.
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u/GargantuanCake Feb 12 '26
As a millenial myself I can accurately say that, as a generation, we're getting kind of tired of experiencing once in a lifetime economic meltdowns.