• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    and then the generation that graduated after us coincided with our parents retiring and freed up the good jobs for them.

    You think millennials had good jobs out of college? Ever heard of 2008?

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      2008 wasn’t the fault of bad jobs. It was the fault of overly greedy banks offering sub-prime mortgages to people would otherwise never qualify for home ownership, and then crying for a bailout when those new homeowners (unsurprisingly) defaulted.