re: Mom of LSU football player is a dorm room interior designer

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This is cope.

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no. Decades of observing human behavior.

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Not an opinion.

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That is just an opinion. It’s not Starbucks keeping people down. The cost of everything is significantly higher than it was just a decade ago. Gas, utilities, insurance, rent/housing, cars, groceries, etc. The only way to be a middle class family that doesnt live paycheck to paycheck is to not participate in life which is not the American dream. And is a depraved life really what we call “middle class”?

The deal we were sold is go to college, get a good job, and it’ll all take care of itself to some extent. That’s how the 2 generations before us lived but that’s not what we are getting. Anyone who doesn’t get the issue doesnt have adult children less than 40. Or reaped the rewards of the American dream before it was squashed to the extent that you live in a bubble.

You don’t have to be truly wealthy to do this. Did this with both kids. Saved money on apartments and sold for a profit each time.

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Good job, dad.

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The back tat mom is of the 'oldest profession'...

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Anyone who doesn’t get the issue doesnt have adult children less than 40.

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I’ve got a 28 year old that owns a home, travels, and has more saved than I did at 38. It’s not the same for all but life is still there for the taking.

Women, of all ages, are dumb. That's really all that needs to be said here.

And the similar blond hair dye with black roots showing….apple does not fall far from the tree.

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I’ve got a 28 year old that owns a home, travels, and has more saved than I did at 38. It’s not the same for all but life is still there for the taking.

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Does he have kids? The only people I know that are killing it like that either don't have kids, are doctors or lawyers, or own their company.

Getting married at 24, having kids at 25 and working a standard 9-5 office job does not equate to the life you are describing.

Lawd! People actually pay for this shite?

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we are living until we are 80. No one needs to have kids until well after 24-25, don’t bring kids into the world until you have laid a foundation. And he is a she.

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Classic Boomer goal post moving. The America dream is graduate college get a job and start a family. Like I said, the American dream is dead. You can be a single 30 year old and live high on the hog if you'd like but thats not what the generations before us did or what we were sold our entire lives. I guarantee no one told you not start your life when you got a job. You started it and believed that earnings would increase greater than your expenses. Thats just not how the world is working now. Expenses increase all the time while wages remain stagnant. You have to make $130k to have the same buying power as someone who made $65k in 2000.

I know that some will never agree with me on this and I have laid out my argument. My main issue is that boomers and Gen Xers answer is always that Millennials shouldn't expect to get the same things out of life that they got. We are the first generation since the great depression that has a lower quality of life than the generation before us. If we still disagree, we will have to just agree to disagree and move on.