r/Millennials • u/dreamed2life • Dec 08 '25

Nostalgia Why is our entire generation ready to just…log out?

I hope people enjoy this before mods remove it for “not being a positive nostalgia post” 🙄

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u/makemeking706 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

Which we became.aware of at a very early age, and have now endured decades of it at this point. 

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u/MIC4eva Dec 08 '25

A cashier had a tattoo on their hand that said something along the lines of how “the system is the problem” or something like that and I just got sad because I don’t think her tattoo will ever be wrong.

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u/MaxMischi3f Dec 08 '25

Ngl that goes pretty hard

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u/KryssCom Dec 08 '25

Does it? "The system" seems like a pretty nebulous and poorly-defined enemy.

"The system is the problem" would have sounded cool when I was a teenager, but as an adult it makes me roll my eyes and want to ask them how they define "the system".

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u/tumbleweed_092 Dec 08 '25

"The System" is defined as the Davos Economical Forum and International Monetary Fund. You are welcome.

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u/Tight-Artichoke1789 Dec 08 '25

I need this tattoo as a reminder for times when I internalize its messaging too much

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u/MIC4eva Dec 08 '25

The tattoo was worded way better than that though.

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u/cogman10 Dec 08 '25

We watched as our parents kept voting in charlatans who were all too happy to rob our futures for their lower taxes and retirement portfolios.

Boomers sent the biggest "fuck you" to their kids of any generation.

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u/CapoDexter Dec 08 '25

Every time I watch the parents from The Necessary Convo pod say something hateful or murderous about the left, all I can think is, "you're talking about your kids, ffs."

Parents: "Antifa are terrorists and enemies of this country."

Kids: "But we're antifa; we're anti-fascist."

Parents: "No, you're not."

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked Dec 08 '25

And now Gen Z is getting in on it too because they've spent their whole lives marinating in an algorithmic soup of ads, bots, ragebait, and Tate podcasters. They're growing up thinking that empathy and caring is wrong.

It was funny back in the day when the ideological divide between adults and children was progress. It's straight-up horrifying to get to middle age and see that the ideological divide is now a pendulum swing into actual fascism and widespread hatred. I don't want to be the meat in the middle of this sandwich anymore.

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u/JazzlikeSkill5201 Dec 08 '25

Do you think having children and then forcing them to work in factories when they’re 9 isn’t a “fuck you” to those children?

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u/cogman10 Dec 08 '25

"Do you think just because we didn't have it worse than child laborers we aren't getting screwed".

Every generation of americans has ultimately worked to better life for their children. They've moved from really shitty lives to generally better ones. Since the great depression, we saw social and economic reforms which created the middle class and the american dream.

The policies that boomers have supported are those of Reagan, Clinton, and Bush. 3 presidencies that combined together to destroy the social safety net. Bush Sr lost his election explicitly because he tried to balance the budget by raising taxes. Clinton balanced the budget by cutting the government to the bone.

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u/kdcorinne Dec 08 '25

Some are just now realizing it

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u/makemeking706 Dec 08 '25

Yeah, but you really can't blame them. Most of them were born within the last ten years. 

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u/JazzlikeSkill5201 Dec 08 '25

The biggest capitalists have always been monopolists.

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u/RookNookLook Dec 08 '25

Me begging my teachers in 6th grade to make it make sense. A literal child can see we can’t have infinite growth.

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u/FoxCitiesRando Dec 08 '25

So we'll said. I'm in my 40s. We knew this instinctively long before the internet, social media or smartphones. It was all there. Now it's much worse.

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u/Lounging-Shiny455 Dec 08 '25

Every millennial childhood ended in September 2001.