I can't say I've noticed anything related to "2009" in particular - in fact I more often see kiddies (under-30s) revering "2016"

2007 was teh best year!

No! 2004!

i doubt its on purpose, they can hardly differentiate between things from 2005 and 2015, and ive seen plenty of them treat both as "old" (;´Д`)

>>176476
2007!

The "great recession" wasn't that bad. In fact I don't think there actually was a recession, it was just gaslighting to justify bailouts.

Eh, it was pretty bad. Whether it was real or artificial doesn't matter since the cost of everything jumped up, tons of people got laid off, and getting a job (or anything) became harder

However, it never really felt like the recession ended, at least to me - in fact the situation seems to have only worsened since

>>176476
>>176479
1999!!!

>>176488
Affordability seemed manageable until 2017, that's when I noticed an apartment became unobtanium. I started to see people living in tents and smoking fentanyl in the streets. But I don't remember anyone saying there was a great recession in 2017.

It's all gaslighting. When they say the economy is bad they just mean stocks are down and the ultra rich are growing their wealth at a slightly reduced pace compared to usual. The "economy" they're talking about has nothing to do with the lives of normal people. It doesn't matter how good the markets are or how low unemployment is when 60% of your paycheck goes to rent.

I count my country as having been in an almost Great Depression tier economic crisis since 2017 which is ignored by the media and politicians when politically convenient and given attention by the news and politicians when politically convenient.

>>176490
the economy that mass media outlets care about has never had anything to do with the real one
it is just that the two economies were more related historically, so it didn't matter

but in the last 20 years, lol
and in the last 6? fucking lmao, no
still cannot wrap my head around the cause of the current round of technology price increases being the pursuit of more money than anyone can possibly make
even Nvidia, who has a near total monopoly on gpgpu computing in a market that is blindly buying scores of cards and chips from them and moving cash around like no one ever has before ever
isn't in a position to make as much money as is needed for any of this to work out lmao

we are completely disconnected from the economy that is covered by media outlets at this point

>>176488
and kids today think that because the kids of yesteryear had time to post their dumb animations online and the pop-music machine was still cranking out shit that everything was perfect

the only thing i remember about 2009 is that i had a girlfriend and she turned 18 that year

>>176490
>I count my country as having been in an almost Great Depression tier economic crisis since 2017 which is ignored by the media and politicians when politically convenient and given attention by the news and politicians when politically convenient.
Where are you from

I finally thought of a good reason not to commit sudoku! If reincarnation is real and you killed yourself a decade ago, you'd be 10 years old now and still in this shit world but now things are even worse and you'd have far less knowledge. You'd probably be logged into google and every social media site right now with your real identity because you wouldn't know any better, and would only know how to use smartphones. You most likely wouldn't be white anymore and would have even lower testosterone, or if you're reborn a girl all the boys around you will be very unattractive due to their low testosterone, and if you fall in love with a good one a few years older than you he'll be imprisoned and beaten/tortured for decades because apparently you were getting "statutory-raped".
Things will probably be even worse a decade from now but at least you'll have lots of knowledge and big muscles to help navigate and overcome it if you don't erase all that progress by killing yourself!

>>176550
You're assuming that time is linear and that you won't get reincarnated as a rice farmer in 12th century China.

>>176550
This made sense until you started talking about not being white and low testosterone and shit like that

>>176532
Canada ;-;

>>176552
I was also assuming everyone here is american and will be reincarnated in america, though if you're reborn somewhere in the world randomly you'll still most likely not be white (but may have normal testosterone if you're not eating american junk food)

>>176550
>You most likely wouldn't be white anymore
I never was (;´Д`)

>>176552
>This made sense until you started talking about not being white and low testosterone and shit like that
wdym? it makes perfect sense as both those things would suck.