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I’m glad I got my teens and early twenties in between the 2008 crisis and covid because I feel like I got to experience at least some periode of relative peace to be young. Social media wasn’t the big evil it is now for a long time. Partying was still affordable. You had the feeling of some sort of future in which you could own a house and have a stable job. When I went out years ago my go to pub had this deal of four craft beer for 12 euro. They had a cigarette machine where I could buy a pack of smokes for like 4 or 5 euro. For twenty euros I had the greatest time ever there.
The same would now cost at least 30 euro’s, possibly 40. No wonder every bar in town is empty.
I like to joke that pre-covid was BC times (Before Covid), like BC and AD, because it feels like so long ago, like a crossover into a different type of world. It put the geriatric in late stage capitalism; which is a silly way of saying that it feels like it sped up the decline/decay. Hard for people to buy into capitalism if the usual concept of a “normal life” is going extinct before their eyes, leaving them with no hope for a stable future.