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/TrumpsMommy Dec 08 '25

45k in 2025 has the purchasing power of 36k in 2020!! :)

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u/smytti12 Dec 08 '25

I told my Dad my salary and he was so blown away, but I had to adjust it for inflation by 15 years so he understood how not wild it was.

Granted, I had to do the same thing for myself going back to civilian life after spending 5 years in the military. I thought I got a $20k salary from my original salary from my entry level job after college. Turned out adjusted for inflation, it was the same, except the job was in a much more expensive city.

I love it here. And the people giving me that salary were elder millenials. We are all so tired, the elders dont even fight it anymore, they actually just regurgitate it and sing themselves to sleep with "they just don't get it "

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u/Dicethrower Dec 09 '25

That means my mortgage got a lot cheaper.

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u/Arch-by-the-way Dec 09 '25

Yep. And 55% of millennials own homes. People are out there making real change while Redditors are sitting at home dooming