• I think under 30s may have experienced the recession. Maybe not first hand in terms of job loss but I imagine the quality of life impacts on children will have been felt.

      • skulblaka
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        241 year ago

        Tons of those folks who lost jobs had children. I didn’t know what a recession was but I do remember my mom crying a lot and then us moving from a nice house in the suburbs to an apartment in the bad side of town.

    • Ethalia
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      211 year ago

      I may have been a child in 2007-2008 but I did felt the recession when our house had to be sold, and we could barely feed our family just because the Lehman Brothers fucked up.

      • @TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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        -31 year ago

        I don’t think existing during a recession is experiencing it. I’m not saying current under 30s weren’t impacted by it but they weren’t participating in the job or housing market crashes.

          • Ethalia
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            51 year ago

            True and real, truly a core childhood memory for me ♥

        • RQG
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          51 year ago

          A kid born in 92 would be 16 in 2008. So they are beginning to look at the job market in many cases.

            • @bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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              31 year ago

              If you’re born in 94 you were 16 in 2010. I don’t know how you don’t experience a global economic crisis being 16 at the time (Don’t know why I replied to you specifically)

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Im 36 but never had money, so the 1997 AFC, Y2k, 2008 rec were just newspaper headlines I saw and ignored while continuing to eat chips.

      • @CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        Yeah but like did you have to work on it for your job? Because nothing actually happened to anyone except people who fixed Y2k bugs leading up to it.

        • @BassaForte@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          No, but I do remember the panic. My parents were convinced that it was going to affect everything, missile systems, the whole nine-yards. They even invested in huge water tanks to put in our basement and stored years worth of food.

          Were they crazy? Absolutely. But I can still say I was somewhat affected because of the panic.