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>> Young people can no longer afford to buy a house. Young people have a much harder time achieving the American dream Such fucking bullshit. I'm old, I lived
by rufus_foreman 4y ago
>> Young people can no longer afford to buy a house. Young people have a much harder time achieving the American dream
Such fucking bullshit.
I'm old, I lived through what you apparently think was some sort of golden age, and it wasn't.
- justinator 4y agoI mean where to start? Cost of tuition, the rate of inflation compared to minimum wage, the housing shortage, a financial crisis in 2008, a pandemic in 2020? Worldwide, runaway climate change? The use of nukes is in the news in a, "could be used any day now - who knows?" kind of way?
- labrador 4y agoMy first job in the 1980's paid me a salary of 20K. My wife and I bought our first house for 80K. I had full health insurance on my salary so we had a couple kids. Personal computers were creating new industries and the stock market was booming. I'm sorry there were reasons things didn't work out for you.
- silisili 4y agoNot bullshit. It was extremely common in the 70s and 80s to get a job at some factory and buy a house. My dad did it at Ford. His brothers at companies like Colgate, Reynolds, etc. Mostly one income households. Where in the hell can you buy a house today with a blue collar job at any of those companies?
- stevievee 4y agoYou can buy a shoebox in the sky or something tattered in the middle of nowhere. This is by design of course. All hail the central planners