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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It comes down to material conditions. You mostly are interacting with Anglo-westerners who's biggest cost of living concern is home ownership. The possibility of owning a home is very dependant on when you were born.

90% of Zoomers even if they come from a middle class family know they will never own their own home. Half of millennials only came to realize how fucked they are in the last decade and another 20% have been able to purchase a home and will eventually be able to pay it off so they won't question things.

Processing the fact that the system is broken is much easier when you are first stepping into the system. (like how the new guy at a workplace can see all the safety issues and maintenance concerns that everyone who worked there for years doesn't see.)

So as young people, 70% of millennials saw that there might be issues with owning a home for some of us but the degree that we would be affected didn't settle in until we had too many concerns to actually consider how to fix the issue. Zoomers are coming into adult life seeing all the accumulated problems and they want to fix things before they have any other concerns to think about.