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re: Millennial baws, how you hanging on?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:05 pm to LaLadyinTx
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:05 pm to LaLadyinTx
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a house for sale more than 2000 square foot but then again I’m not trying to live in ascension in a house made of dsldesium
I’ve only bought fixer uppers which I assume most millenials don’t know how to do since y’all just made us hold the flashlight and cussed at us instead of letting us learn
I’ve only bought fixer uppers which I assume most millenials don’t know how to do since y’all just made us hold the flashlight and cussed at us instead of letting us learn
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Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:06 pm to fareplay
Got my house in 2017 as a 23 year old. Best decision I ever made. My income has more than doubled since then such that I'm able to comfortably save a large percentage of my income. Not to mention my house has gone up a lot in value.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:07 pm to el Gaucho
Silent generation f$&ked them with the EPA, and the boomers f$&ked everyone with NAFTA in the 90’s.
The reality is that most of the real economic problems are not driven by legislation by elected officials. It’s driven by the aggregate of hundreds of thousands of minute regulatory decisions by faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats working at federal and state agencies or within the Federal Reserve. These people are unfirable, completely invisible to the public, and no public officials have any real authority to dictate policy to them, as we saw under Trump, the administrative agency employees will simply ignore their department heads, executive orders, and SCOTUS decisions.
The administrative state of the federal government has gone completely rogue and functions purely as an arm of the largest and wealthiest corporations to destroy competition and eliminate the ability for consumers to choose winners and losers. This gradual eroding of the American economic engine has resulted in the destruction of economic mobility, the disappearance of the young middle class, and the explosion in costs of higher ed, healthcare, insurance, housing, utilities, and much more.
So, when millennials get into these pissing matches, they’re not looking for anything but a simple acknowledgment of basic math. They’re looking for recognition that their struggles are statistically VERY different, that there in fact IS a problem (something most boomers refuse to even recognize) so we can start figuring out how to fix it. The longer we go without figuring out a peaceful economic or political solution, the more desperate and hopeless the youth get, the less connected they are to the survival of institutions, the closer we get to a bloody and destructive revolution.
I don’t want to see this nation torn apart by another Civil War, but I’m telling you, the numbers show that if these trends continue, THE YOUTH WILL REBEL! In fact, metrics like average age of first marriage and first child, wealth and income inequality, and more are actually WORSE than they were in pre-Revolution France. This situation really is getting that bad for gen z, and it’s getting worse all the time. Gen Z doesn’t even remember what America was like before 2016, heck, they barely remember it pre Covid!
While politicians squawk about stupid social issues, the reality is that 95% of the societal problems we are seeing in America today are economic.
The reality is that most of the real economic problems are not driven by legislation by elected officials. It’s driven by the aggregate of hundreds of thousands of minute regulatory decisions by faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats working at federal and state agencies or within the Federal Reserve. These people are unfirable, completely invisible to the public, and no public officials have any real authority to dictate policy to them, as we saw under Trump, the administrative agency employees will simply ignore their department heads, executive orders, and SCOTUS decisions.
The administrative state of the federal government has gone completely rogue and functions purely as an arm of the largest and wealthiest corporations to destroy competition and eliminate the ability for consumers to choose winners and losers. This gradual eroding of the American economic engine has resulted in the destruction of economic mobility, the disappearance of the young middle class, and the explosion in costs of higher ed, healthcare, insurance, housing, utilities, and much more.
So, when millennials get into these pissing matches, they’re not looking for anything but a simple acknowledgment of basic math. They’re looking for recognition that their struggles are statistically VERY different, that there in fact IS a problem (something most boomers refuse to even recognize) so we can start figuring out how to fix it. The longer we go without figuring out a peaceful economic or political solution, the more desperate and hopeless the youth get, the less connected they are to the survival of institutions, the closer we get to a bloody and destructive revolution.
I don’t want to see this nation torn apart by another Civil War, but I’m telling you, the numbers show that if these trends continue, THE YOUTH WILL REBEL! In fact, metrics like average age of first marriage and first child, wealth and income inequality, and more are actually WORSE than they were in pre-Revolution France. This situation really is getting that bad for gen z, and it’s getting worse all the time. Gen Z doesn’t even remember what America was like before 2016, heck, they barely remember it pre Covid!
While politicians squawk about stupid social issues, the reality is that 95% of the societal problems we are seeing in America today are economic.
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:11 pm to fareplay
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:13 pm to LaLadyinTx
quote:
Do you want that 1350 sq ft, 1 bathroom home? The one with window units and an attic fan that's 30-50 years old?
I’m living in a 2br/2bath late 50’s ranch home that’s less than 1300 sqft, and I have the nicest home of any of my friends from hs. GTFO. Your idea of “struggle” is our barely attainable dream.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:14 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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sounds pretty poor tbh
to be fair. anyone going out to eat more than a few times a week is either lazy or has money to burn. meal prepping is let rocket science.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:18 pm to kingbob
quote:Ding ding ding
I don’t want to see this nation torn apart by another Civil War, but I’m telling you, the numbers show that if these trends continue, THE YOUTH WILL REBEL! In fact, metrics like average age of first marriage and first child, wealth and income inequality, and more are actually WORSE than they were in pre-Revolution France. This situation really is getting that bad for gen z, and it’s getting worse all the time. Gen Z doesn’t even remember what America was like before 2016, heck, they barely remember it pre Covid!
This situation is going to spin wildly out of control.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:20 pm to Scruffy
A civil war would be sweet
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:21 pm to Scruffy
I just want MTV to start playing videos again and drink Pepsi Clear.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:22 pm to fareplay
quote:
I’m lucky, most of us aren’t.
Upgrade your peer group.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:22 pm to el Gaucho
Gen Z vs whom?
They can’t stay off of Tik Tok long enough to fight anyone.
They can’t stay off of Tik Tok long enough to fight anyone.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:23 pm to el Gaucho
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To be fair starting in the 70s they kinda hollowed out the blue collar economy by offshoring manufacturing and made it to where most places if you have kids you have to send them to private school (I’m not gonna elaborate why) but I don’t think that’s the boomers fault
Additionally, the blue collar economy suffered greatly due to NAFTA. My husband was laid off from 2 different jobs because the manufacturing went overseas to China.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:23 pm to el Gaucho
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y’all just made us hold the flashlight and cussed at us instead of letting us learn
If you complained half as much as a kid as you have in this thread I can see why your pop was cussing at you.
I'm a millennial who's dad ripped him a new one for bringing the wrong type of screw driver too but I managed to learn something somehow. I'm a GC now.
Bought my first house at 28. It was actually 3 houses on the property. I lived in one and fixed up the other two to rent out. Sold all three for a nice down payment on my current home. Got it at a steal and completely remodeled it as well. Refinanced at 2.5%. Of all the financial stresses in life, my houses have been way down the line. I get more frustrated with the price of workers comp and general liability for my company than I do the housing market.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:27 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Workers comp feels like legal robbery.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:29 pm to fareplay
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I’m talking between ages 27-35. What’s going on?
I’m at the bottom of that age range. Married. Own a good home. Combined income before taxes and deductions is roughly $165K. No kids. No debt. Both cars are starting to get older now (each about 100K miles)
We are doing just fine for now. I’m sure kids will change that in a hurry. I can only imagine how much extra cash id have if this was 10 years ago
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:36 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I'm a GC now
I’m not familiar with yalls millennial pronouns sorry
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:40 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:you're the outlier
My rent is about 17-20% of my gross income
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:57 pm to Rebel
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Workers comp feels like legal robbery.
It is, straight up. Thankfully the longer you are in business and have no claims it slowly but surely goes down but for a few years roofing was around 30% and exterior carpentry 25%.
Giving workers comp $0.15-0.30 of every $1 I made for years for absolutely nothing is as frustrating as it gets. Louisiana hates small businesses and wants them to fail.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 5:03 pm to fareplay
Having friends is hard and dating is even harder. If im not at work, I'm in my apartment reading, playing video games, watching LSU football/baseball, and sleeping
I'm supposed to go back to school next fall but I feel immense anxiety about being nearly 30 and undergrad so I keep psyching myself out
I'm supposed to go back to school next fall but I feel immense anxiety about being nearly 30 and undergrad so I keep psyching myself out
Posted on 12/21/23 at 5:03 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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My rent is about 17-20% of my gross income
jesus fricking christ
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