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"My working theories include: - Great Recession hitting right as we entered adulthood - First generation to be exposed to the internet and social media in large numbers(thus being exposed to the sadness of the world) - Extremely large numbers of us went to college, and a large percentage studied soci"
"I think a lot of millennials and zoomers claim the recession as one of their generations' hardships, and we've all been suffering the aftermath since, but it feels like stolen valor if you were just in middle/high school like I was."
"Historically, sociologically, psychologically—What does it mean that America switched its focus from tits to ass after the Great Recession? I don't know what I am talking about. But I feel like, in a vague psychoanalytic way, it's somehow connected to millennial self-loathing."
"the survey's well-being measures did not decline during the Great Recession or COVID-19 (which seems very inaccurate, given that other surveys found declines in well-being)"
"GWB was deeply unpopular and in 2008 the Great Recession happened which was 100x worse than COVID or anything since."