I was a freshman in college the week that crash happened. Called my dad and asked him how he was faring and he offhandedly mentioned losing $250k in 3 days. He wasn't concerned because he was 10+ years from retirement and confident he'd make it all back with a bit of work, but it was still eye opening and it definitely affected how I chose to invest my own money as I got older. I'm much more conservative and hands-off with it than he ever was. I'm still doing well compared to my peers, but I'm behind where thinks I should be.

> Other than 2008, you mean?

To state the obvious, 2008 was 15 years ago. So someone who was a senior in high school at 18 in 2008, is over 30 today.

So it is true that there's a generation that includes everyone in their 20s and those in their early 30s that have never experienced a significant market crash.

Counter to the other comment, I was in the middle of college and somehow didn't know about that until years later. After I started working in 2011 at least.

Maybe 2008 doesn't count because that's when they realized you could just print money any time the economy blinked and that would fix everything.

Started in 2007, but that’s a quibble…

That wasn't a big, bad crash. It was recovered very quickly.