I'm 26 and I've been alive for all that too. Felt the repercussions in school, and the workforce. I'm a byproduct myself, I dropped out of college during Covid. Did you have diseases that weren't STIs in college? Then welcomed to the worst job market with mass layoffs and a system dripping in ineptitude. People with degrees can't get jobs they studied and prepared for, college grads can't get minimum wage jobs. My generation has the lowest spending power of any previous generation, with the greatest cheeto-made inflation skyrocketing prices.

Tldr This isn't a stick measuring competition, just to say everyone is feeling bad rn and that's not OK. It's a class war, not a culture war. If only I could convince my parents that classes aren't just for schools