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Being born in 1980 I think this is the first time I've seen myself included in the group millennials. I have always though of that group as those born after 199

by tyfon 11y ago

Being born in 1980 I think this is the first time I've seen myself included in the group millennials. I have always though of that group as those born after 1990. My age group, at least in Norway, seems to be fully employed and own houses etc.

dnautics 11y ago
That's unsurprising. Norway and Sweden have had low headline inflation for the past few decades. Note how the person in the article complains that her cost of living scaled with her promotions and pay raises. Although there was a brief bout of deflation in 2008, one of the primary mechanisms of the generational theft is deficit spending y governments which perpetuates secular inflation and steals from the future to pay the present.
chanux 11y ago
I thought millennials are people who were born in 2000s xD
pcurve 11y ago
It used to be called Generation Y for a very long time, covering people born from 1980 through mid 90s. The term is more apt for people born after generation y. Then in 2004, couple of researchers coined the term millennials and made up their own segmentation. http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/03/generations3/30ebe0c8d.png http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/03/ge...
Godel_unicode 11y ago
I think you might be interested to learn how severely leveraged Norwegian millenials are, and how much their economy depends on oil. Norway is economically a one-trick petroleum economy, and has more in common with Saudi Arabia than with the United States. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-16/scandinavia-s-richest-millennials-might-be-in-trouble http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-16/scandinavi... http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/15-179/Saudi-Arabia-vs-Norway http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/15-179/Saudi-Ar...

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Being born in 1980 I think this is the first time I've seen myself included in the group millennials. I have always though of that group as those born after 199

by tyfon 11y ago

dnautics 11y ago
That's unsurprising. Norway and Sweden have had low headline inflation for the past few decades. Note how the person in the article complains that her cost of living scaled with her promotions and pay raises. Although there was a brief bout of deflation in 2008, one of the primary mechanisms of the generational theft is deficit spending y governments which perpetuates secular inflation and steals from the future to pay the present.
chanux 11y ago
I thought millennials are people who were born in 2000s xD
pcurve 11y ago
It used to be called Generation Y for a very long time, covering people born from 1980 through mid 90s. The term is more apt for people born after generation y. Then in 2004, couple of researchers coined the term millennials and made up their own segmentation. http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/03/generations3/30ebe0c8d.png http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/03/ge...
Godel_unicode 11y ago
I think you might be interested to learn how severely leveraged Norwegian millenials are, and how much their economy depends on oil. Norway is economically a one-trick petroleum economy, and has more in common with Saudi Arabia than with the United States. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-16/scandinavia-s-richest-millennials-might-be-in-trouble http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-16/scandinavi... http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/15-179/Saudi-Arabia-vs-Norway http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/15-179/Saudi-Ar...