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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

In Canada. Worse financially, but socially/mentally we're better off. My parents have none of the tools I have to deal with shit on an emotional level, they instead just shove it in a box and try to forget about it. This is how they raised me, but thank fuck for the internet and people I met that know better.

Well, all of this ignores the destruction and probably death of the Earths environment which has such an overarching presence it had to be ignored to provide a meaningful answer.

*I suppose ones financial situation isn't tied to which generation they are, but to how much emotional damage their parents inflicted (which is correlated to socio-economic status IIRC). IMO, if my parents weren't so permanently fucked up I would've had the mental wherewithal to attend University at an earlier age so I likely would be graduated already. Would probably still be just as fucked tho.