*** A lot of people are having a difficult time at the rising costs for everything. ***
Agree 100%. I am eating more sandwiches and ramen these days than I probably have eaten in my whole life. It is costing $10.00 more to fill my gas tank.
And I really don’t get the disdain towards younger Americans on this site. Many I know work 2 jobs, or an 8 hour work day, then go home to run their home based business, or side gig, sleep 3 or four hours, then do it all over again.
They shop at thrift stores for clothes, and home goods. They realize that they will never have the things their parents had..an affordable house, insurance for their car, and medical costs.. They can’t afford dental care.
I find it depressing that so many people in the US, young and not so young are struggling.
100% agree with you. I just had my rent raised by a lot. I am on fixed income and I am somewhat down today. The animosity at grouping all the young as stupid and lazy is disgusting.
Behavior is because too many do not want to hear any criticism about how we got got here and how it continues to get worse.
Laziness didn’t cause this. Greed, betrayals, and political ideologies did.
The only thing guaranteed in life is death. There’s no guarantee you will have a “better” or “worse” life than your parents. Your life is what you make of it.
You say “Many [young people] I know work 2 jobs, or an 8 hour work day, then go home to run their home based business, or side gig, sleep 3 or four hours, then do it all over again.”
I know many like that (as we all do). Those are not the ones we are laughing at here.
You wrote “They realize that they will never have the things their parents had..an affordable house, insurance for their car, and medical costs. They can’t afford dental care.”
Yet, our three kids are all gainfully employed, two in their mid 30s have their own homes, all have car, home and auto insurance and good medical and dental care. All of their friends do, too.
We raised our kids with wide circles of friends and almost all of their childhood friends are doing well.
I know hundreds of young people through our children and our friends’ children and I just do not see what you are seeing. This is my observation from the San Francisco Bay Area as well as eastern Washington state and North Idaho.
Can you tell us where you see all this misery?
I agree. There is a huge split between the haves and have nots in this country today and unless they're living off of daddy's money the young are mostly in the have not category. It's driving them towards socialism because they feel like it's hopeless that they'll ever be able to afford a middle class lifestyle. When I graduated college in 1990 a bachelor's degree was a ticket to the middle class, now it gets you a job at starbucks for minimum wage. You could put yourself through college on a part time job, today it's $40k a year in student loans to go to the University of Nowhere state school.
The conditions are not the same as when most of us came of age. We can tell them to work hard and pay their dues like we did but the truth is we didn't have the roadblocks to success they have today. Where it's going to bite us is when people feel hopeless they install totalitarians who promise to fix things for them. We've seen it countless times throughout history with the USSR, Hitler, FDR, Obama, etc. When it gets to the point where a majority of the people feel they're being screwed then bad things start to happen.