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> He's part of a new-ish group of young people. He's educated and owns his own business. He could be considered well off, but he's also, in a way, homeless. By
by kristianc 8y ago
> He's part of a new-ish group of young people. He's educated and owns his own business. He could be considered well off, but he's also, in a way, homeless. By choice.
> There are two big reasons for this shift: the price of housing and student loan debt. A little more than a third of millennials currently own homes, a rate lower than Generation X and baby boomers when they were the same age.
That's the very definition of not by choice. This current effort to rebrand millennials not owning anything as a positive lifestyle choice based on happy clappy sharing economy "choosing experiences" BS is really nefarious.
Given the choice, Millennials would own. They "choose experiences" because they can't afford to own stuff.
- DennisP 8y agoThe article does say that some do it by choice, but a lot "rent and share because they're broke and they need to save money."
- logfromblammo 8y agoIt reeks of rationalization. They don't want to admit to themselves that they got dealt a bad hand, so pretend that they own nothing and rent their entire life by choice. It's like breaking someone's kneecaps, and they say they're in the wheelchair by choice, because walking is dangerous and inefficient, and knees are a horrible leg-joint design anyway. They never had a choice, so they invent the illusion of choice by retroactively justifying that they would have chosen what they have now if they actually did have a different option that some might have considered to be objectively better. I am well familiar with this. I consciously unwant the things that I want, but cannot afford, all the time. No, I don't need a car manufactured after 2010. No, I prefer to stay at home for my vacation. Eating out is for people who can't shop and cook. The current crop of movies in theaters seems pretty lame. I can wait another season for new tires. We can have strips of skirt steak instead of top sirloin. In fact, how about roaster chicken instead of beef? It's bullshit that I shovel over myself, and I know it. If I had more money, I would definitely buy more and better stuff with it--to own and not rent.
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- JustSomeNobody 8y agoIf you want to control a situation, you change the narrative.