The American dream is out of reach. I am surprised any Gen Zer even tries to make it at all. It is all uphill for them. Low wages crushed by inflation, housing thru the roof and legal immigrants (H-1B) taking the good jobs every day.
they should be glad for their current “rough life”. just a few hundred years ago virtually everything in life was uphill. for many there WERE no wage. at all. starvation was the real threat and if you didn’t know how to forage or grow your own, starvation was a real possibility. housing? if you couldn’t build your own house or live with others who did, you were homeless. and then there were those who took everything you had away because you couldn’t or wouldn’t fight back. back then it was outlaws and today it’s government. the “American dream” came out of survivalism. seems we are back to it again. good luck folks. you are going to need it.
Too many people, not enough houses. Too many people, not enough jobs. How many Americans are drawing disability, SSDI, Welfare, Medicaid and WILL NEVER WORK, but draw a paycheck? Every farm needs workers, every ranch and slaughterhouse too. Yet the employees are almost always not Americans. Require the disabled to support themselves, or die. If they cannot feed themselves, why support them? I am not talking about those who truly cannot function as an adult, or children. I am talking about the bums, and scammers.
Reverse these trends, people can afford houses, wages rise, and taxes SHOULD fall. Add deportation, and denial of govt assistance to non citizens, and you solve almost all of the housing costs, and stabilize the US once more.