To ask - Which living generation do you think has had it the hardest?

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• Silent Generation: Born 1925-1945.
• Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964.
• Generation X: Born 1965-1980.
• Millennials: Born 1981-1996.
• Generation Z: Born 1997-2012.
• Generation Alpha: Born 2013-2025.

I think each generation has had varying degrees of things that are hard, socially, financially, politically etc.

My grandparents were of the silent generation and there's no doubt their childhood and young adulthood was hard during and after the war. Plus many men still did national service.

I am a millennial and most of my generation is old enough to remember life pre-internet but also young enough to embrace it. Things are hard for my generation and younger due to house prices etc, but society is more open generally with more possibilities.

We all think our generation has it harder, but what do you think if being objective?

Silent generation

Going off my experience I'd say silent generation had it worse from what my grandparents went through. Boomers had it best my parents have had a good life due to house prices and good public services compared to now. I'm millennial and think if had it shit but also think being female and poor has possibly been more the issue than my generation. I think kids today are gonna have a bad time with global warming and erosion of female rights.

OK I was being narrow minded and looking at the UK.

People with money have always been able to escape the grinding poverty that wears people down, able to pay someone else to fill the pretty brass bucket beside your coal fire.

Escape the really shit working conditions that men in particular put up with in all sorts of heavy industries. Able to escape working with hazardous materials like asbestos without protection.
Even as late as the 90s on average someone was killed every week on a construction site. It never made the news or a beyond a one line at the bottom of a papers column.

Same. Jumped on the housing ladder v young, just before house prices went stratospheric, and benefited from boomer wealth via inheritance.

Silent generation. Anything else doesn’t even come close.

I think climate change is going to be carnage, so the younger you are now the tougher it'll be.

It really depends on how and where you measure it.

If you look at it from a quality-of-life perspective, then the advance of technology and automation (at least, up to this point) means life's always going to get easier with each successive generation. Far fewer people working in dangerous and lifespan-shortening jobs, healthcare technology improving, the quality and variety of food available to the masses constantly improving (anybody remember the offal-burgers of the 80s, compared with what's available now?)...at pretty much any time in the last 70-80 years, it's been possible in most of the west to say, "Life is better now than it's ever been" with total accuracy.

Ask the same question of somebody living in Iraq in the 90s, though, and you'd get a very different answer.