I agree.
I think young people have been screwed in endless ways and I feel bad for them.
We complain about Obama’s “fundamental transformation”. We say everything was better when we were kids. We say the middle class is disappearing. And then we look at young people and expect them to suck it up, work hard, and pay $2500 a month for an apartment. There is a reason these people still live at home. It’s not like when I was young.
In some ways you are correct.
The skulls full of mush were enticed with the "free money" of students loans by our government during the 2007/2008 economic crash - with the government using it as a means of creating new debt to keep away from a full-on depression.
Now those skulls have more fully formed - and they realize that they were taken for a ride and have to pay it back.
I don’t blame them any more than I blame the screaming kids at church during the sermon. Anyone who trusted their child’s formation/education to the government and the media instead of rolling up their sleeves and drawing a line in the sand, come hell or high water, has no right to complain that their progeny can’t cope with life.
I agree with you to some extent, but there’s no need for one young adult to “pay $2500 for an apartment.”
The young adult could marry, or get a roommate, and then there’d be two people paying $2500 for that apartment, not one.