They gonna have to rethink what a life milestone even is, just like many of the millenials are finally, really accepting.
My cousin and his wife want kids but they’re both almost thirty and there’s no way they can afford children any time soon. I feel so bad for them because with how life is going for them, it’s not looking like they’ll be able to be parents. I’m not parent.aterial and the thought of being a parent disgusts me, but it is heartbreaking to the people I care about not being able to achieve their dream of starting a family
The essential struggle is a class struggle, not a generational one. The billionaires love it when we blame boomers, Zoomers, Xers, etc., instead of blaming billionaires.
It was hard enough as a millennial getting to the point I’m at and it’s still not easy. I feel very bad for Gen Z. They’re getting fucked over
Or maybe just questioning if there’s any point in achieving them at all.
I’m Gen x. I don’t have kids, a home, or any of these so-called milestones. Probably never will. We’re all fucked.
I feel this so often these days. Too many older people I’ve known over the years have gotten fucked over even after putting in all the work to make it… why even try when you’ll fail anyway.
I’m questioning my life choices so hard rn. I miraculously got to buy a house, but now the foundation and bottom floor is fucked from a tornado that spawned essentially on top of me and it’ll cost half the cost of the whole house to fix. If my home insurance won’t cover it, I won’t be able to fix it
As a kid I heard people talk about how Japanese culture was being destroyed because they’re overworked, and how they didn’t really have a way out of it politically. I always thought that would be us eventually. I didn’t know how true that was until now. The only way out of this mess is through it, and people with money completely understand this.
The only way out is revolution, which begins with the people, mass class consciousness, and organized leadership that can help steer the movement in a positive direction. This is why grassroots organizations of disciplined workers are so critical, they can help us accomplish the tasks of educating, agitating, and organizing.
It’s not just labor organizing, although that’s super important. Minorities, small communities, friend circles are all forming with the understanding we’re stronger in numbers. I run a gay men’s group that meets at least weekly, we’ve had about 200 guys join, gotten media coverage, gotten the attention of civil rights leaders and lawmakers already. I’m just a guy with some crude leadership skills, little time, and no money. But there are lots of people like me out there, pulling people together. Faith communities are leaning in so we can organize their people.
You don’t have to sit on the sidelines doomscrolling your life away. You can act, even if that’s finding a community and joining it.
Trump was a grass roots movement, of idiots sure, but they pulled it off while people were still mad about Obama. I’d love to see it pulled off In the other direction, and we’re all trying. However, I’m not convinced Americans are going to turn blue once we cut back on all the niceties we take for granted.
I know too many blue voters that would turn tail the moment Starbucks and Bread Co become too expensive to have almost every day. The overall amount of infantilism that’s been baked in only seems to benefit the party that promises to maintain it at any cost.
Not surprised. My wife and I make more money than we ever have and I feel like everything is out of reach. Inflation is through the roof. And wages haven’t come close to keeping up. We’re fortunate both of us make mid $20 an hour.
For someone starting out I have no idea how they could manage. If I was starting out today straight from highschool I’d most likely be homeless
You know you read things like this and you don’t have to spend much time working out what’s wrong
I was earning mid twenties in warehouses in the 1990s
This is why everything is fucked. Wage stagnation and extreme price hikes is leading us back to indentured servitude and slavery via arresting poor people for the crime of being poor (homeless).
Meanwhile food is 3x and housing is 10x
eyup. feel I got to some milestones about 10 years after it should be and now unemployed about 15 years before retirement just hemoraging savings.
I’ll never know retirement.
im pretty sure you will like me. it will be retirement but what it will really be is poverty.
I’m exactly on the same page. Huge leaps in wage, but my life is moving backwards.
Gen Z, ripping off millenials again.
Are they actually surprised?
Even the previous generation were delaying and skipping milestones.
Pikachu face: late stage capitalism.Just rhyming verses in the same song of decay.
Ten years ago, the average home, at the average mortgage rate, and with a 20-percent down payment would’ve cost $1,952.04 per month. Today, that monthly cost is $3,470.95, according to mortgage data site Mortgage Calculator.
The real barrier people rarely talk about is down payment.
Apartment rent and small house mortgage aren’t that different, and mortgage stays mostly the same. The only part that changes is property value keeps going up so taxes and insurance keep going up.
If it wasn’t for that, first and last payment would be exactly the same. It’s even a frequent complaint of boomers with paid off mortgages, because you never stop paying those things.
Even people with paid off mortgages would benefit from lower housing costs.
The use of the term “milestone” or “goal” when the article talks about how these are neither for a growing percentage of the population is interesting.
I mean, an unachievable goal is still a goal.
A goal is something you seek to achieve. Looks like a lot of people are no longer seeking to achieve the things previous generations have attempted to convince them to chase.
It can be very hard to disentangle the cause and effect of ‘not wanted so it doesn’t count as a failure to not get it,’ vs ‘can’t do it, so won’t say I want it,’ vs ‘might want to do it but everyone and everything is getting fucked so hard these days and I don’t want to watch my kid get fucked, so not going to bother having one.’
Why assume everyone wants a house, a marriage, and children to begin with?
Clearly you’ve never taken a management class.
I think catering to family life is a non goal of european governments since they smell clankers could generate wealth for the few.
AI can’t really generate wealth in the long run. Automation of all types generates temporary advantages in pricing, but other groups catch up eventually. This lowers the rate at which labor is exploited as a ratio of production, which lowers the actual source of profit. Absolute profits rise, while rates of profit fall.
While this is the correct analysis of automation in terms of exchange values, this misses the fact that automation also reduces the socially necessary labor-time to produce the same commodity. Overall it probably still benefits the capitalist despite the falling rate of profit, because the use value of that profit rises proportionally to the fall in its exchange value, while the exposure to risks associated with employing labor decreases.
I highly doubt this significantly changes the calculus on AI though. It improves productivity somewhat in a few white-collar fields. It will not replace most blue-collar workers any time soon, even with the technological advancements in robotics we see in China. I think the more likely explanation for the phenomena in OC is the combination of increasingly relying on exploiting immigrants and workers of the global south, and AI fits in there as a tool for surveillance of the working class.
For sure, automation represents an incredible opportunity for workers, presuming workers actually are the ones directing the development of society. It does reduce the inputs required to produce goods, which frees up time for redirection and reduction of labor overall. I was more trying to combat the idea that AI will be a magic bullet for capitalists, when really we’ve already seen the impacts of automation before. It comes in a new form, with new particularities, but it’s not fundamentally different.
