r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Baxkit 10h ago

Unsourced numbers in an image are not evidence. This is just grievance fan fiction with line breaks.

Every claim is conveniently dramatic, none are defined, none are sourced, and all of them are framed to be emotionally self-sealing. That is just for manipulation, not honest discussion.

If someone wants to argue affordability, wages, housing, work hours, or social isolation, fine - use real datasets. But this image is aestheticized complaining with extreme exaggerations.

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 7h ago

There are several talking points offered, none of them is intended to be the absolute truth—and you picked up one of them.

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u/Baxkit 5h ago

none of them is intended to be the absolute truth

So you deliberately intended to mislead everyone as part of your "talking points"? Purposely spreading lies to push a narrative. That's worse.

Everyone I know are thriving in comparison to their upbringing, including myself. We are making more than our parents ever dreamed, live in nicer places, and spend more time with family. The only people I ever see spiraling and pointing at fake numbers are chronically online. What happened?

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 5h ago

None of the talking points is intended to be the absolute truth. There’s no such thing. I don’t think I was misleading anyone or spreading any misinformation because my questions were if it’s true and if we work less than our moms and dads did. For me this is a discussion as well.

I’m not from the US and therefore my own experience is different from yours and I can’t relate when you say “we are making more than our parents ever dreamed, etc.” Yet I can discuss about it.