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A working man can still support a family of five, buy a house, a car and a vacation once or twice a year. He just needs to be realistic. House: you can still
by welshwelsh 3y ago
A working man can still support a family of five, buy a house, a car and a vacation once or twice a year. He just needs to be realistic.
House: you can still find houses with plenty of room for ~$100k. It just needs to be in an affordable area: think McKeesport, not San Francisco.
Car: for $5k you can get a 2005 Ford Focus or Honda Civic. They're reliable cars that will get you from A to B perfectly fine, easy to repair and fuel efficient.
Education: a Computer Science degree from WGU costs $18k for the average student, and can be as low as $4k if you accelerate.
Career: plenty of remote software jobs paying above $100k, which can fund a good life in most of the US.
I get it though, the average person wants a nice house in a wealthy area with good schools and low crime and two new cars and gets a degree from a school they can't afford in a field without high paying jobs, and they cannot even code. That's completely their fault, no sympathy from me.
For those people, there's an easy solution: just don't have kids. Kids are crazy expensive, and not required for a good life.
I hope what you say is true- mass retirements followed by a plummeting birthrate. We surely do not need so many people, when the overwhelming majority are useless. Robots will be here soon anyway to replace most of the workforce
- monsieurbanana 3y agoYou forgot those damn avocado toasts
- pram 3y agoNow this is some “folksy wisdom”
- nradov 3y agoProgress on robotics has been extremely slow. I doubt that we will see a robot that can repair a broken air conditioner in our lifetimes. But I agree that a lot of the whining is due to expectations that are decoupled from reality. A recent survey of college students showed that they expected to earn an average starting salary of $103K. Most are in for a rude awakening. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2022/05/05/college-grads-salary-expectations/9656696002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2022/05...
- mstipetic 3y agoA society that views children as cost has things very backwards. They are the prize and the whole point of this game.
- bt4u 3y ago[dead]
- carlosjobim 3y ago> For those people, there's an easy solution: just don't have kids I think most people have started to notice that this is the actual purpose of all these insane policies against workers in the industrialized world. Every vise imaginable is being used to squeeze young people. From rent and real estate extortion, taxes and tributes, to inflation. Then the solution given to them is "Oh just don't have children. You don't deserve to procreate since you have to keep working for us to be comfortable." There is another word for the kind of policy being supported by you.