I think the nonstop online coverage/phone notifications/twitter/social media stream/ERA threads of depressing headlines and outrageous news these days gives you an illusion that the world is falling apart at an unprecedented rate, that the generation before you had it easier (rose tinted glasses)...but it really isn't. Every decade has its shit. The two biggest threats to global security right now are a) the rise of white nationalism and b) climate change, both of which are relatively abstract and passive compared to being in a literal world war
The 2008 recession sucked. I watched entire industries go down with the housing crisis and family friends who were well-off had to sell everything and sleep in their SUV's. It formed me as a millennial, to make more prudent financial decisions and save save save
