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My only regret in life is that I wasn’t born 8 years earlier. My older sister paid 60% less for college and bought a house twice the size for half the price of

My only regret in life is that I wasn’t born 8 years earlier. My older sister paid 60% less for college and bought a house twice the size for half the price of what my family is currently considering. Timing is everything.

vsareto 6y ago
10 years from now, someone else will be looking on whatever you were able to do with envy... well, maybe.
- rubiquity 6y ago
  I sincerely hope not. If such a thing were to happen that means the wealth divide would be significantly worse. That’s the opposite of the direction the world needs to be going in.
  - vsareto 6y ago
    I'm pretty sure the only way the world's direction changes suddenly (and for the better) is if someone drops a nuke on Davos during a conference. This nihilism does no one any favors of course. I just think we're no where near a breaking point for any of it to change significantly.
- uncletammy 6y ago
  Middle millennial here. I've pretty much given up home for my generation getting the opportunity to experience this effect. The problem seems to be a combination of boomers having been too greedy and millennial expecting opportunities to "trickle down" if they play within the system they were taught to. Newer generations lucked out because they learned early that boomers will only help themselves and the only chance they have for social mobility is to gamble their way into wealth. Lucky for them, they'll get to live out their life being served coffee by some of the smartest, most well educated baristas the world has ever seen.
at_a_remove 6y ago
As one firmly in Gen X, I often remark to younger generations that we could actually see the Boomers' ladder being pulled up behind them, rungs slipping out of our fingers. Nor was it just tuition, opportunities, and so on; we went from nervous anticipation of the sexual freedom that had been quite popular to a dreadful SEX = DEATH, with GRID and the uncertainties of whether or not it was a virus, and if so, how easily it was transmitted. The future was so bright, it just looked like an atomic flash. We are a small cohort and I sometimes wonder if we are less slackers than just preemptively traumatized, waiting for the other shoe to drop like a neutron bomb, The Road Warrior as training for those who wish to survive, holding our collective breath waiting for the apocalypse to finally show up. What a puny plan.

vsareto 6y ago

10 years from now, someone else will be looking on whatever you were able to do with envy... well, maybe.

rubiquity 6y ago
I sincerely hope not. If such a thing were to happen that means the wealth divide would be significantly worse. That’s the opposite of the direction the world needs to be going in.
- vsareto 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure the only way the world's direction changes suddenly (and for the better) is if someone drops a nuke on Davos during a conference. This nihilism does no one any favors of course. I just think we're no where near a breaking point for any of it to change significantly.
uncletammy 6y ago
Middle millennial here. I've pretty much given up home for my generation getting the opportunity to experience this effect. The problem seems to be a combination of boomers having been too greedy and millennial expecting opportunities to "trickle down" if they play within the system they were taught to. Newer generations lucked out because they learned early that boomers will only help themselves and the only chance they have for social mobility is to gamble their way into wealth. Lucky for them, they'll get to live out their life being served coffee by some of the smartest, most well educated baristas the world has ever seen.

at_a_remove 6y ago

As one firmly in Gen X, I often remark to younger generations that we could actually see the Boomers' ladder being pulled up behind them, rungs slipping out of our fingers. Nor was it just tuition, opportunities, and so on; we went from nervous anticipation of the sexual freedom that had been quite popular to a dreadful SEX = DEATH, with GRID and the uncertainties of whether or not it was a virus, and if so, how easily it was transmitted. The future was so bright, it just looked like an atomic flash. We are a small cohort and I sometimes wonder if we are less slackers than just preemptively traumatized, waiting for the other shoe to drop like a neutron bomb, The Road Warrior as training for those who wish to survive, holding our collective breath waiting for the apocalypse to finally show up. What a puny plan.