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Is it really this tough out there for young people?

Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:53 pm
Posted by scrooster
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:53 pm
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:57 pm to
It seems hard out there for hard working white dudes these days. Can't speak generally. I assume it's the best time to be a retarded Somali in America, for example.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:57 pm to
I can't tell you how many times i've said, "damn good things we didn't have cell phones growing up".

gen xers had too much freedom
gen Z has never tasted freedom.

Posted by CastleBravo
Rapid City, SD
Member since Sep 2013
1793 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 10:19 pm to
The future belongs to the people that are having children.

Why these people want to edit themselves from history is something I don't understand.

You do not need much money to have children. There are billions of examples of this in our history.
Posted by prouddawg
Member since Sep 2024
9116 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 10:26 pm to
The guys I see coming out of high school getting trade school diplomas find work immediately : welding, diesel mechanic, electrical, HVAC, etc. Hire on with somebody, get proficient and you can probably have a nice little business for yourself one day, possibly even hit it big.
Posted by 1897
Member since Apr 2018
951 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 10:43 pm to
I’m so glad I was raised in a two parent household with a masculine dad. That guy is a cuck.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 10:55 pm to
It’s worse than you can imagine.
Posted by DyeHardDylan
Member since Nov 2011
9678 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:02 pm to
The boomers and Gen X went on a decades long binge of spending and materialism and have left the younger generations to clean up the mess. It’s not a burden we take lightly.
Posted by BeehiveTiger
Damn Near Loachapoka, Alabama
Member since May 2020
688 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:05 pm to
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Gen X went on a decades long binge of spending and materialism and have left the younger generations to clean up the mess


lmao @ this retarded take
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 11:09 pm
Posted by DeBoar
Cullman, AL
Member since Jan 2024
1012 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:07 pm to
TDS has eaten Dylan’s brain
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
21090 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:09 pm to
Technology? but before that feminism did it’s best to destroy the family. Now you can barely make it without 2 people working in the family. Women now serve the corporations or the government instead of their family and husbands.
Posted by DyeHardDylan
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:14 pm to
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lmao @ this retarded take


thank you for your substantive, thoughtful rebuttal.
Posted by LSUbest
Coastal Plain
Member since Aug 2007
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:19 pm to
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feminism did it’s best to destroy the family. Now you can barely make it without 2 people working in the family. Women now serve the corporations or the government instead of their family and husbands.


Mostly greed, you can get by on one income if you budget and live within your means. But if you're infected by Hollywood and social media you just can't help chasing that castle.
Most teachers, secretaries, and nurses are barely making enough to cover their car note, full coverage, daycare, eating out( because they aren't going to cook after work) and work clothes.
They could actually take $50 less a week and do right by their family and themselves, but they're infected by society.
Posted by RBWilliams8
Member since Oct 2009
54026 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:32 pm to
This.

My wife is a stay at home mother. It doesn’t make sense for her to go make 2-4k more a month and add 2-3k in expenses just for some $8 an hour employee to be taking care of our children.
Posted by WicKed WayZ
Louisiana Forever
Member since Sep 2011
34160 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:33 pm to
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You do not need much money to have children


Well if this wasn’t one of the dumbest fricking things ever posted on this site holy shite
Posted by Masterag
'Round Dallas
Member since Sep 2014
20222 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:33 pm to
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The guys I see coming out of high school getting trade school diplomas find work immediately : welding, diesel mechanic, electrical, HVAC, etc. Hire on with somebody, get proficient and you can probably have a nice little business for yourself one day, possibly even hit it big.



they might have jobs, but how they gonna pay for that 250k home at 6%?
Posted by WicKed WayZ
Louisiana Forever
Member since Sep 2011
34160 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:37 pm to
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guys I see coming out of high school getting trade school diplomas find work immediately : welding, diesel mechanic, electrical, HVAC, etc. Hire on with somebody, get proficient and you can probably have a nice little business for yourself one day, possibly even hit it big.


People say this shite alllll the time but it takes a long fricking time to make the kind of money you’re talking about. Most of those guys struggle a lot, maybe making $30k a year for several, several years.


Multiple friends and family in the trades btw. Took them a while to get to where their wives could be stay at home and by that point kids were in school, not daycare
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
39833 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:54 pm to
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The boomers and Gen X went on a decades long binge of spending and materialism and have left the younger generations to clean up the mess. It’s not a burden we take lightly.
Gen Y has more wealth at their relative ages then previous generations did. And they're about to inherit trillions. They'll be fine.
Posted by GeauxBurrow312
Member since Nov 2024
6261 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:55 pm to
As someone in that age range, its a little more complicated that. Im planning on two kids (would like more, wife doesnt want that though), I have friends who already have kids and are about to have kids and most of them are planning on having one kid. Keep in mind my circle is more right leaning (most of them are not as right wing as I am though) than our age group. None of my more leftist friends have any kids or any on the way.

I agree with the video OP posted about tech ruining things (which is why I dont have instagram, facebook etc), but there are multiple strong forces at work (economics, political). The number of women under 35, and especially under 30, who are crazy liberal makes up an astounding percent of their demographic.

Luckily, there is hope. Our generation is coming back to Christ. I had dinner tonight with a friend where he was mentioning he saw other people we know come to his church service for the first time. We are the most religious generation in several decades, and we are going to need to lean on that to bridge the social issues technology and the way we structured our economy created

Its also all the more reason to keep foreigners out. We are inviting ourselves to be colonized by 3rd worlders.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 11:56 pm
Posted by WicKed WayZ
Louisiana Forever
Member since Sep 2011
34160 posts
Posted on 5/3/26 at 11:58 pm to
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We are inviting ourselves to be colonized by 3rd worlders.


Find a brain cell, I beg you.

It’s so incredibly ironic that you’re talking about getting back in church and following Christ when you’re deathly afraid of being “taken over” by people Christ would welcome with open arms
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