There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
slate.com
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
  • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    84·
    2 months ago

    A lot of the people I grew up with are dead now. It’s not insignificant either, it’s like half my friends. :yea:

    I’m in my 20s. Drugs, depression, car wrecks (social murder) killed them.

      • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        59·
        2 months ago

        If I ever lose my SO the capitalists will know. Pretty much the only bright spot in my life. All these young people filled with hopes, dreams, and a promising future died for nothing. I won’t let it be for nothing at least for my SO.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      37·
      2 months ago

      My childhood friend I had a falling out with died in 2016 from a heroin overdose. Most people I graduated with are barely getting by. No one I know has actually “made” something of themselves, just subsistence living. Millennial btw.

  • prole [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    64·
    2 months ago

    Before 2010, the estimated lifespan for American early adults increased every year. Deaths from HIV and cancer were plummeting. Homicides had fallen dramatically, and fatalities from circulatory disease, a major cause of death at every adult age, were also falling in this age group. But sometime after 2010, for almost every cause of death, this changed

    Thanks Obama!

    Edit: more seriously, wtf we live in hell

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    58·
    2 months ago

    Call me a liberal but I need to GTFO here. Porky’s victory in burgerland has been absolute and those pigs are squealing in smug laughter on what they did and how they got away with it.

    Even some parts in kkkanada haven’t been completely ruined yet because of the pigs feast. Quebec seems like the least bad part of both the US and Canada.

    I cannot in good conscience raise a family here, and I’m going to have to relive my 20s as a 30-something playing catchup there because here, porky stole my 20s from me.

    Least that pig can do is spit out a thank you sometimes for my “noble sacrifice”.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    52·
    2 months ago

    People who are 25 to 44 have experienced major turning points in this country’s history: The oldest of them were Reagan babies who launched their careers in the shadow of the Great Recession, and the youngest entered adulthood during a worldwide pandemic

    This is the problem with the “ stonks-up will always go up in the long run” mentality. Even if Wall Street recovers from the crashes, for the people who come into the job market in the middle of the crash, it hurts not just their prospects then but down the line as well. Hits to long term savings, stuck in dead end jobs, employment histories that are less likely to land higher paying jobs. All of which can contribute to these premature deaths that plague burgerland.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      42·
      2 months ago

      It’s so fucking bizarre that college degrees are things porky laughs at and says “not good enough!” Bro, the workforce literally trained itself and you think they need MORE training before they’re “good enough”? Fuck you, porko.

      I need more people to start thinking that what’s bad for “the economy” is most of the time good for them. Why are we celebrating the economy becoming so efficient that the reserve army of labor is piling up in numbers? Why the fuck should I want anything except for porky’s “real estate portfolio” to go down into the toilet?

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    Hey look it’s my weekly glimpse of the ghost of my naive optimism that it’s possible to turn this death cult masquerading as a country around.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    sometime after 2010, for almost every cause of death, this changed.

    The last time the federal minimum wage increased to it’s current $7.25/hr was in 2009. In 2008 we had a demand for universal healthcare, voted in a guy who campaigned on it, and immediately capitualted to a poison pilled exclusionary anti worker Republican plan.

    We never recovered from no-oil. Instead of unfucking what he did subsequent admins just doubled down.

    • laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      I know this isn’t an Obama thread, but I recall when he won the election I was so hopeful. We were going to see real change and improvement. He could have leveraged the power of the people to get anything done. Just point us in a direction.

      That was the last time I was hopeful about our prospects in America. Immediately, they said something to the effect of, “Thank you very much for the votes! We’re going to go behind closed doors and start the real work. God bless America.”

      I knew in that moment we were fucked.

  • Rey_McSriff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Interesting that they only briefly mention auto accidents. It’s so dangerous to commute in the US with all the tanks zooming down our stroads

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Stress, guns, no healthcare, huge cars

    This is a hostile environment. For everyone, regardless of political persuasion. Minorities are actively persecuted. Liberals are assaulted by the news and microaggressions. Chuds see phantom enemies around every corner. Nobody is happy. A country of trapped animals. Now prices are going up like crazy. The restraints bind tighter.

    Edit: article lists 2010 as an inflection point. This is also the advent of social media, no coincidence

  • MouthyHooker [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    Kind of infuriating that they name cardiovascular disease and diabetes as factors that are killing us “post”-COVID but don’t make the connection that repeat COVID infections greatly increase our risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.