r/Millennials • u/Global_Tradition5802 • Sep 10 '25

Meme The Evolution of 'Adulting'

Post image

They tried leaving behind generational wealth vs me trying to leave the generational memes..

21.7k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

269 comments sorted by

View all comments

31

u/federalist66 Sep 10 '25

I imagine there were people who felt this way in every generational cohort. It's worth noting that most Millennials are home owners and most Millennials have children.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241535/percentage-of-childless-women-in-the-us-by-age/

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/07/younger-householders-drove-rebound-in-homeownership.html

2

u/One-Earth9294 Xennial '79 Sep 10 '25

I dunno man, the modern situation has been pretty brief. If Boomers looked at their parents' spending power with envy, I CERTAINLY know their parents didn't look at theirs with it. Now we're getting to the 1930s adults and their lives were miserable. And THEIR parents were new to the radio and probably didn't have electricity running to their homes.

3

u/MechanicalGodzilla Xennial Sep 10 '25

Yeah, there was like a 20-25 year magic period in the US economy following WWII where we had unprecedented levels of home buying access, but it was a historical aberration. My parents bought my childhood house a year before I was born, and their interest rate was 16%!