askchapo

The 2010s in the West sucked if you weren't a cis white dude. It was also the time just after the 2008 crash when job hunting first started getting even more impossible and employers started getting more bold. It was the start of housing becoming unaffordable and young people were worse off than their parents for the first time in decades. People were complaining that their kids weren't leaving home at 18 like they did, and proceeded to collectively decide the late teens and young adults of the time were weak and spolied and needed to buy less avocado toast. Employers and landlords used this opportunity to gaslight people into worse conditions, and they haven't looked back since. I cannot overstate just how gaslit an entire generation became and the damage it did. Now you can look at burnt out Millennials and clue in to working hard not getting you anywhere. We didn't have that example, our parents got paid enough to buy their own houses at 20. So we worked hard and burnt out wondering why we weren't getting anywhere. To add insult to injury now people laugh about us being pushovers. Basically laughing at victims for being mentally abused by their elders when they were young and vulnerable.

But that's nothing compared to how much it sucked if you were in one of the countries the west was drone striking.

I guess if you were under 15, wealthy, white, Cis male and in the West at the time it might have seemed simpler. But for everyone else it sucked hard.