Article created by: Austėja Akavickaitė
You might’ve done everything ‘right’ growing up: you studied hard, got the degree you wanted, worked your bum off. But even if you did everything that your parents told you to do, success isn’t guaranteed. Heck, sometimes, a comfortable middle-class lifestyle seems out of reach. And there you are—well-educated, with a strong work ethic—unable to find even a low-income job to pay your rent. And it isn’t all your fault: the world has changed.
These and other struggles that millennials, especially working-class ones, face are documented on the ‘Lost Generation’ subreddit. It’s an online group, founded in 2009, in the wake of the previous financial crisis, that has nearly 262k members and calls out capitalism, income inequality, and how unfair the system can sometimes be. We’ve selected their top posts for you to see, dear Pandas. You’ll find them below, as you scroll down.
Some of you highly-educated Pandas will have noticed that the subreddit’s name refers to the Lost Generation that was in early adulthood during World War I. The term refers to how disoriented, wandering, and directionless many people in the postwar period felt. Feelings that some millennials (aka Gen Y) and members of the younger generations embody as well.
Bored Panda reached out to Eddy Ng, the Smith Professor of Equity & Inclusion in Business at Queen’s University, for his insights on how the financial crisis of 2008 restructured the economy and affected millennials, as well as the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequality. Bored Panda also had an in-depth discussion with the head moderator of the r/lostgeneration subreddit, u/Adahn5. Scroll down for both exclusive interviews.
#1 Vanilla Wafers Are More Than Half Of What Minimum Wage Workers Earn In An Hour
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#2 Workers Deserve Better Than This
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#3 Don’t Forget Their Morning Routines
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#4 Just Work Hard And You’ll Succeed
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#5 The Struggle
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#6 Precisely
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#7 Pay People What They Are Worth!
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#8 Mad Max Hours Who Up?
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#9 Translation: Ok Boomer
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#10 But Did They Really Try Making Coffee At Home?
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#11 Just Make It Illegal
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#12 I’ll Give You Something To Cry About
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#13 I’ve Been Trying To Explain This To My Parents For A While
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#14 How It Started, How It’s Going
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#15 3rd Party For 2024?
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#16 Being A Millennial Rules
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#17 It Isn’t Adding Up
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#18 Gatekeeping Through Irresponsibility
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#19 Less Yachts More People Able To Afford Food And Have A Roof Over Their Heads
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#20 Explains A Lot
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#21 Mission Impossible
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#22 How Capitalism Cause Generational Gap
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#23 I Think This1% Are Unaware Of Other People
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#24 Mission Accomplished – Covid-19 Edition
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#25 I Feel Motivated
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#26 Political Evolution Of Millennials
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#27 Surely A Coincidence
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#28 Hindsight Is 20/20
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#29 Have You Realized Skills Of Average Person Have Increased But Wages Still Remain D Same!?
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#30 Every. Election
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#31 Not To Mention The Debt
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#32 Minimum Wage Earners Can’t Afford A Two-Bedroom Rental Anywhere
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#33 Family Dependent Surpasses The Great Depression
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#34 Workers’ Passion Shouldn’t Be Exploited For Profit
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#35 Our Sad Reality
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#36 Go To College, They Said. Get A Job And Buy A House, They Said
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#37 When I Magically Become An Adult In 3 Month
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#38 Anytime Now
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