A lot of hardworking people who don't build wealth picked poorly with career choice. |
More and more people are being punished for career choices that would've been good-enough choices 20 years ago.
The market is becoming increasingly competitive and one has to be on top of their game all the time to own house and have acceptable living standards, life shouldn't be a rat race, we are not slaves.
Living standards are dropping everywhere in the modern world for increasingly bigger subset of the society. It used to be possible to own a house anywhere working most full time jobs, in Europe, the full time jobs you have to land to be comfortable to own a house are shrinking and the number of people who are already priced out of the market is alarming, and then we wonder why birth rates are falling...
Thankfully, I am not worried about my own future (or my present, I don't even work full time anymore), but when I look at people of my age, younger or older, it's a depressing state of affairs. The game is truly rigged.
Not to mention, we're meant to progress as modern societies, live more comfortably, raise our living standards and reject modern slavery. All of the older people I know think the younger generation have it much times harder, and despite the increase productivity of the average worker across all industries, the money paid is getting those workers less than what the less-productive generation had. We are not even stagnating.
Last edited by LurkerJ - on 25 March 2023
