#milenial

JAKARTA – Kementerian Keuangan (Kemenkeu) mencatat tren positif dalam partisipasi masyarakat pada instrumen investasi Surat Berharga Negara (SBN) ritel. Saat ini, mayoritas investor SBN ritel di Indonesia didominasi oleh kalangan usia produktif, dengan generasi milenial sebagai penyumbang terbesar. Analis Keuangan Negara Ahli Madya Bidang Pembiayaan dan Risiko Keuangan Kemenkeu, Chandra AS…

I wasn’t exactly what you’d call patriotic. As an edgy, Tumblr-obsessed teenager in 2013 (back when Tumblr was the wild west of the internet, before the mass clean up), I had started exploring different philosophies. At the time, I was reading The Communist Manifesto and watching Whitest Kids U’ Know sketches about 9/11 being an inside job.

(Millenial tumblr post, 2013)

Gutiérrez talks about how “learning is conceived of as a process occurring within ongoing activity” and at that point, my “ongoing activity” was just trying to survive being an adult without any kind of safety net.

I made my decision, not out of fealty for my country, but out of necessity. I wanted a place to sleep, I wanted to be fed. And most importantly, I wanted my college paid for.

I had to prepare, mentally and physically. I had never been active before, so I started running around my neighborhood. At first, it was just a quarter mile. Then it turned into one mile, then three, and before I knew it, I was running five miles every day. My sister Sam, the movie lover, thought it would be a good idea to show me Full Metal Jacket. Terrible idea, and afterward that’s when it really started to hit me. I was about to go to boot camp.

Felt this so hardddd pic.twitter.com/7po32wYWkM

— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) April 14, 2026

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