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  • You’re might be thinking of Y2K and I’m talking about the Dotcom crash in the year 20000 where people like me lost our jobs.

    Your experiences are valid, just different because you were a child during most of it. Even subprime you were just 14.

    I also have memories of things my parents went through like nuclear protests, strikes, things like that, but I was more insulated to them as a child.


  • 90s kids are too young to have genuinely been affected by most of this. They’re mostly now in their mid 20s and have been in the workforce for less than a decade.

    I think 70s and 80s kids saw a lot worse because the recessions actually affected their working lives.

    As a 74, the recession in the early 90s was crushing as I entered the workforce. The Y2K Dotcom crash in 2000 ended my career in my mid 20s. The subprime meltdown hit me in my prime working years (34).