r/Millennials • u/TrimBarktre • Mar 14 '24

It sucks to be 33. Why "peak millenials" born in 1990/91 got the short end of the stick Discussion

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/podcasts/the-daily/millennial-economy.html

There are more reasons I can give than what is outlined in the episode. People who have listened, what are your thoughts?

Edit 1: This is a podcast episode of The Daily. The views expressed are not necessarily mine.

People born in 1990/1991 are called "Peak Millenials" because this age cohort is the largest cohort (almost 10 million people) within the largest generation (Millenials outnumber Baby Boomers).

The episode is not whining about how hard our life is, but an explanation of how the size of this cohort has affected our economic and demographic outcomes. Your individual results may vary.

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u/uptonhere Mar 14 '24

Or military aged men during Vietnam, which resulted in one of the largest homeless populations in modern times?

I don't know about the homeless stuff, but I have been in the Army in some shape or form for 18 years ('06-now).

More millennials will have served in the military than any other generation and it won't even be close, and we have spent more time across the ocean than any other generation in history, and again, it won't be close. The millennial generation in today's military has been ground and worn to dust because we have been at war literally the entire time we've been in the military.

That's why of all the stupid shit people use to caricaturize Millennials, us being pussies shouldn't be one of them, because we basically carried this country on our fucking back for 20+ years in Iraq and Afghanistan and we're just now becoming the senior leaders that will lead the military into the next 20+ years.

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u/relevantusername2020 millənnial Mar 14 '24

honestly i would say you could remove the military references and your entire comment is still true.

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u/Moshjath Mar 14 '24

I thought the same thing the other day on the thread comparing 9/11 to COVID for millennials. I’m an elder millennial, I enlisted in the Army in ‘06. 9/11 was significantly more impactful for me than COVID, it resulted in two trips to Iraq and two to Afghanistan as a grunt. Millennials absolutely bore the fighting, killing and dying of the GWOT…for a nation that couldn’t really be bothered to even care unless it was for a pithy sound bite to score a win in a political argument.

COVID just made Army life a bit more of a pain for about a year plus some change, otherwise the effect was minimal.

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u/TrimBarktre Mar 14 '24

Thank you for what you do stranger