numberwang on 26 January 2018
| SpokenTruth said: In fact, the entire concept is a cop out by the older generations to make themselves feel better and absolve blame for fucking everything up for the generation after them. You paid 4 years of college with a part time summer job. We will be paying for 4 years of college for decades with money from the very job we went to college to get. You bought a house, a car, a retirement account, set up a college fund for your kids, afforded healthcare...all in your early 20s and on 1 income for a family of 4. We can barely afford rent, no retirement, no college fund, can't afford healthcare...all on a 2 earner income with no kids. So spare us the avocados and lattes. It's you skyrocketing the costs of healthcare, education and housing. It's a slap in the face for you to fuck it all up and then blame our lack of financial stability on us eating. |
Is it possible that the older generation behaved in different ways and thus had different results?
- Start to work with 16
- No single-lifestyle, no rent payments, instead live with your parents until you marry
- No college, except for the few academics
- No spending on internet, telephone, TV packages etc.
- Prefer cheap rural America over hip metropolitan cities
