'[I had] no debt at 30': Gen Xer empathizes with the millennial plight, going viral for admiring their resilience, while reminiscing on the 'good ol' days'

It's no secret that millennials got dealt a pretty terrible hand in the game of cards called life. To keep the card-game analogy alive, millennials are basically holding a 2 and an 8 with different suits in Texas Holdem and the turn of the century was the flop. For those of you who don't sympathize with a generation of grown up emo's battling a lifetime of student debt and jobless futures to fit their master's degree, that's okay. There's one man on the internet, a Gen Xer, who recently went viral on Reddit after empathizing with an entire generation, lamenting over their struggles and reminiscing on the golden days of his own past. 

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