Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most Boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’’
by lurker_bee
Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most Boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’’
by lurker_bee
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Millennials know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week for a decade and still not be able to afford a house.
Its not hard to buy a house, at least not in Texas. Our home was $94k in 2002 when we bought it, standard 3 bedroom house. Small house outside of town in the burbs. Make the minimum payments per month and then at the end of the month take your entire tax return and put that toward it. Doing that, we paid the house off in 13 years. Now we are stuck paying the taxes so you never truly own your home and taxes are about $4k a year or about $300 a month.
My kid works harder than any boomer I’ve ever known. Frustratingly I’ve tried to convince them that’s wrong and that they’re being exploited, but the reason for all this B.S. questioning work ethic is to prime kids to be exploited.
I’m just their parent, I can’t compete with the entire media landscape telling them they’re lazy and worthless and deserve nothing.
Boomers are upset at zoomers for not buying their house and kicking them to a nursing home. The irony.
I don’t blame them. I don’t know why it’s so hard for the Boomers to acknowledge this either. I’m GenX, and even with a housing bubble built solidly into my younger professional years and living in a very expensive housing market, our dual income could buy a house that was 4x our salary.
I’ve had this argument with multiple family members. Large corporate concerns running out and buying up available residential housing supply has significantly changed the market, and it’s nothing like what it was when they were buying (or when I was, for that matter).
Boomers basically had everything handed to them tbh. Then they destroyed the economy after.
The average age of a first time home buyer in 1981 was 29.
Boomers also didn’t have Amazon that would make buying useless shit way too easy.
As a boomer I don’t know what it’s like to work a 40 hour week which is why I haven’t worked a 40 hour week since 1987
gen z are lazy and constantly need someone to tell them they are doing the right thing.
*> Earlier this month, Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster complained that they don’t show up to work until 10:30 a.m.*
*> 54-year-old comedian Rick Mercer joined in on the dogpiling and openly started criticizing younger workers*
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To think I used to like Jodie Foster and Rick Mercer
50% or more of Boomers have always been poor and struggled. They are also responsible for spoiling the next generation.