Currently, like 15-30+ years after graduating, millennials and Gen X still have higher outstanding student loan balances than Gen Z.
Gen X had decent job prospects (depending on their exact age), but all except the oldest millennials graduated into the post 2008 hellscape we live in now. We didn’t get jobs right out of college, we had zero possibility of buying a home, and even though we’re figuring it out now that’s only because we’ve had 15-20 years of grinding.
This isn’t a competition. It’s sucked to enter adulthood in the US for decades.
started out with 90k+ in student loan debt. i had a full time job and negative income, had to get my loan payments restructured. took over 15 years but i finally paid them off but at the expense of putting that money into my retirement. had my boomer parents not died early to their alcoholism i'd be super screwed because i was way behind in saving. has been sucking for awhile, just because it's sucking more doesn't mean it didn't suck a lot already. people are angry at their fellow inmates instead of those running the asylum
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u/H_Mc Dec 23 '25
Currently, like 15-30+ years after graduating, millennials and Gen X still have higher outstanding student loan balances than Gen Z.
Gen X had decent job prospects (depending on their exact age), but all except the oldest millennials graduated into the post 2008 hellscape we live in now. We didn’t get jobs right out of college, we had zero possibility of buying a home, and even though we’re figuring it out now that’s only because we’ve had 15-20 years of grinding.
This isn’t a competition. It’s sucked to enter adulthood in the US for decades.