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I wonder if (assuming things get better) future generations would be like "I hate this boring and lifeless AI art that we have today, I wish I was born in the 2010s!" Or will the shit show that has been going for the last few years be so vivid that they would be happy not to have been born now.

Kinda like how it can be fun to imagine being born as a boomer and working casually while living luxuriously, but not so much to imagine being born in 1920s and going through WWII as a soldier

Or maybe they will also yearn to be boomers lol

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if Gen X's truly "have" homes, or just have been paying on a mortgage, which at the rate 2025 is going might put them in the same category as Millennials, or even behind, so like Z?

Come, join us... uWu...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

GenX here, never in my life has a home been affordable and I am so fucking tired of the younger gens assuming we have it so easy.

I've strggled just like you for decades longer and the lack of empathy and recognition has made me hate all of you

[–] my_hat_stinks 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nobody has ever claimed that every gen x owned a home. There have always been people who can and people who cannot afford a home, but each generation has more people in the can't-afford group than the previous. At 30, more genx owned a home than millennials, and more millennials than genz.

The problem you're having is that everyone else is talking trends and you're talking personal annecdote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most of the ones I know do, but there are plenty without, just not nearly as many as Gen's Y & Z.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Imagine that, younger folks own fewer homes...