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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 4689642, member: 5037"] I’m a mid-season millennial (born 1990). My grandfather grew up poor in Brooklyn during the 30s and 40s, when welfare was in its infancy. Came from a family of Pennsylvania coal miners. Between poverty and war rationing, he would routinely pretend to have mumps and beg for food door to door. As a child he was often sent to farms in the summer for some money for the family, and of course to make sure he ate. The kids of the neighborhood played stickball and with milk crates. He lost two uncles in the war. I certainly wouldn’t trade worlds we each grew up in, and I’m glad that that life isn’t anywhere close to the norm like it was then. The generation that deserves all the crap is the boomers lol [/QUOTE]