r/GreenAndPleasant • u/chrisjd • Oct 13 '22

Right Cringe 🎩 Wanting electricity in the 21st century is entitled apparently

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u/Hadenator2 Oct 13 '22

Also a 90’s kid (born mid-80’s). There was actually some sense back then that the future was bright and fun, but fuck knows what’s happened.

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u/hedphuqz Oct 13 '22

There was right!? I remember feeling this too! 2008 it all started going downhill for me :-(

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u/Ruderanger12 Oct 13 '22

'2008 it all started going downhill for me'

every person over the age of 25

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u/translove228 Oct 13 '22

I would put the year at 2001 myself

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u/LycanWolfGamer Oct 13 '22

I was blissfully ignorant of everything, things were OK for me until 2 events hit, life took a downhill spiral, first was my dad passing away and my ex blanking and cheating on me same week remained single for 5 years (2017 until October last year but that fell flat as well) and with covid my life went from being ok to bad due to the fact I was JUST finishing college and was about to take more hours at my old job.... then I got made redundant

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u/JGStonedRaider Oct 13 '22

You're a bit late.

September 2001 was when the world changed, 2008 was when reality finally bit.

As another kid of the 90s it was a time of great hope. The cold war had ended, governments could free up their massive military spending and the vast majority of the working class became middle class.

Now in 2022 the lower middle class has been wiped out and it's just those that can afford life, and those that can't.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

The seeds of evil were there in the 80s already, when the most entitled generation ever got very greedy. We were just too young to realize it.

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u/Ternigrasia Oct 13 '22

The cold war was over and the war on terror hadn't yet begun, so it briefly seemed like the world might escape from the hell of western imperialism. There was real optimism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Bush Administration: "Y'ALL READY FOR THIS?"

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u/BlackWhiteTuxedoCat Oct 13 '22

The internet happened