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Older generations say: "We all had struggles when we were 20 years old."
No, you didn't.
You didn't pay €3,200 rent and €10 for eggs.
You didn't graduate with €50,000 in student debt and €0 job security.
Gen Z isn't being dramatic.
They're drowning.

Estimated monthly income needed to live 🤯
🇺🇸 USA: $3,500
🇮🇱 Israel: $2,800
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates: $2,200
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $1,600
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: $1,500
🇵🇰 Pakistan: $1,500
🇷🇺 Russia: $1,000
🇨🇳 China: $1,000
🇮🇷 Iran: $700
🇮🇳 India: $20…
The differences are brutal depending on the country… the cost of living completely changes the game.

As a developer, have you ever wondered:
Google Maps tells you there is
Real-time traffic ahead
There are no sensors on the road.
How does it know?

Where do college students get all that money to take such crazy trips during spring break?

So the birth control pill was distributed like candy to all millennial women at 15 years old, and now in vitro fertilization is a $50 billion industry.
Must be a coincidence.

Anonymous
I'm a school nurse. We have a rule: students without money for lunch receive only a cold cheese sandwich. Nothing else.
One Wednesday, a sixth-grade boy came in saying his stomach hurt. I've been doing this for twenty years. I know how to tell the difference between real pain… and hunger.
"When was the last time you ate?"
He looked down.
"Yesterday, at lunch."
I gave him a note and sent him to the cafeteria. I asked them to serve him a complete hot meal: pasta, salad, milk… everything.
The cafeteria lady read the note, looked at me… and handed him the tray without saying anything.
He

I love calls from scammers.
I pretend to be an elderly person desperate to pay them.
My record is keeping them on the line for a whole hour.
I put them on hold to "look for my wallet," yell at the cat, and ask them to repeat everything because my hearing aid "isn't working well."
Then I spend half an hour reading the credit card numbers wrong… super slowly.
At one point I even told them my kitchen was catching fire.
Very funny 😆

Millennials are an elite generation because they were capable of producing 12-page essays the night before they were due. Without ChatGPT, without Claude… just background lo-fi, midnight coffee, citations that miraculously matched up, and pure improvisation.
And still, they managed to get high marks. The end.

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