Well, she’s absolutely right in this case.
> Well, she’s absolutely right in this case. <
That she is. On the other hand, I always find it a bit concerning when a millionaire casually gives generic advice to folks who are just trying to make next month’s rent.
“Just work harder” is kinda like saying “Have a nice day.” It sounds good, but doesn’t really mean much.
I know people woking hard. Meanwhile the politicians continue to devalue the dollars that they earn. Whoopi’s comment and yours are unfortnate. As are the similar comments that follow yours.
Work harder serfs! Right?
I’m a late-eighties baby, and I work my tail off. Full time pharmacy tech (in the most underpaid location in my district, BTW), going back to school in autumn to go for EMT, then bridge to nursing from there. I lost more than a decade in work experience and savings after my kidneys started failing as a teen, and starting dialysis in my early twenties, then a transplant in my late twenties which was botched. I lost five years just from the cascading complications alone. I had $10k for college which was taken by the state when I had to start Medicaid to pay the medical bills, because Medicare wasn’t enough. Dialysis is expensive.
So, I’m already doing the working part. In the last ten years, wages haven’t grown while inflation has skyrocketed. Do you know what I would have given for my current income ten years ago? I’m making the most I ever have in my life and my husband and I are living with my mom, who ALSO can’t afford to live without us there paying rent, and she has a degree! She barely makes more than I do.
I do NOT want to have to wait for my parents to die before I can buy a home... I prefer to share it with them, but the economic situation is making that look unlikely.
Or have you been under a rock?
Well, she’s absolutely right in this case.
The “Boomers” and Gen-X were able to work, save up and put a deposit on property. Gen-Y were famous for complaining that they couldn’t instantly have what their parents had take a lifetime to create.
I’ll cut the “Zs” and millennials some slack. The marxists have everything so screwed up that its nearly impossible for today’s young people to accomplish what their parents and grandparents did.