> You just can't afford to do it with all of your requirements. Yes, and as I mention upthread, to drop those requirements is essentially telling middle class

> You just can't afford to do it with all of your requirements. Yes, and as I mention upthread, to drop those requirements is essentially telling middle class youth that they have to accept a regression in living standards compared to their parents', which runs counter to the messaging they were raised on. Not only parental/cultural expectations but the developed world middle class suburban ethos of "work hard and you'll live a good life", the whole post-Cold War End of History that humanity was supposedly marching towards.