re: Salaries vs inflation

I said decent medical school. Tufts for example after residency the debt is roughly 500k in 2023. Your loans being only 160 says a LOT. You’re out of touch

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Upon marriage, they immediately bought the 4 bedroom house

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if they bought pre-2020, stretching the budget on the house was a fantastic decision. Probably the biggest mistake of my life was not jumping on a house that was 50k over my budget but in a great school zone and is now worth 400k more than what it was listed at. We obviously didn't see covid happening and opted for something smaller as a starter home

The vast majority of my millennial peers that I know personally started in 3/2 sub-2000 sq ft houses, even those pulling in $200,000+. Many of which, myself included, are locked into those properties due to rates and housing inflation.


Complain all you want about people "wanting a big house," but that is pretty much what is on the market. From the 80s on, we didn't build smaller houses. The smaller homes tend to be more per Sq ft because they are closer to city centers and jobs.

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I said decent medical school. Tufts for example after residency the debt is roughly 500k in 2023. Your loans being only 160 says a LOT. You’re out of touch

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You’re shaming people for the medical school that they went to? Your $500,000 doesn’t match Tufts’s disclosures (assuming they are accurate).

fricking boomers are the worst generation in the history of America, hell the history of civilization, and its not close.

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I didn't know welders, plumbers, and electricians needed a college degree. The more you know..

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you don't think a lot of them are struggling as well?

They’re not 20% but I get the gist of what you’re saying.

There has to be a minimal amount of interest applied to keep the government from losing money on interest but in no way should it be even a hundredth of a percent more than whatever the inflation rate is.

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"whatever your initial principles on your student loan is what you should pay back, all interest to be cancelled and forgiven,

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I'd be all for a compromise like that. One thing that drives me nuts about the student loan forgiveness sh*t is that they want to people's loans to disappear but nothing would get done about how the loans are given out in the first place. An 18 year old can't even rent a car but they can sign up for 100k in debt for a degree that has no demand. It's ridiculous.

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I get a measly "cost of living raise" every year which doesn't come close to accounting for the ridiculous prices in the city where I'm employed. Not to mention my company is taking away perks, increasing micromanagement, and not listening to us ground-level employees actually doing the work on a day to day basis when making decisions. Not to mention the amount of administrative work I have to do has increased exponentially in the past year. And they wonder why people are burnt out and annoyed. It's like, seriously, I know we're not supposed to talk about salaries at work, but especially in 2025, I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this crap.

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I hear you. But the cost of doing business has gone up. You should maybe open your own business. See what it’s like.

Admin? You can thank all the red tape. Rules and regulations.

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You’re shaming people for the medical school that they went to? Your $500,000 doesn’t match Tufts’s disclosures (assuming they are accurate).

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This is what he does around here. Makes ridiculous troll posts and takes idiotic stances. He purposefully picks one of the most expensive medical schools in the nation and then uses a number that’s nearly double their published average student loan debt for a graduating student ($259,000). He’s a terrible troll.

fricking boomers are the worst generation in the history of America, hell the history of civilization, and its not close.

100% agree, depending on what side of the boomer coin you got.

Many of us are thankful for them.