Not surprised. My wife and I make more money than we ever have and I feel like everything is out of reach. Inflation is through the roof. And wages haven't come close to keeping up. We're fortunate both of us make mid $20 an hour.

For someone starting out I have no idea how they could manage. If I was starting out today straight from highschool I'd most likely be homeless

Are they actually surprised?
Even the previous generation were delaying and skipping milestones.
Pikachu face: late stage capitalism.

Just Gen Z? I'm an elder Millennial and I feel like I'm doing this right now.

Yes, Gen Z "is doing that"... It's them actively doing that... That's how we are writing the headline, inferring choice or preference... Not, "Gen Z can't have milestones" not "The Epstein class ate all of Gen Z's deserved, basic, human milestones" no... Gen Z is delaying.

The essential struggle is a class struggle, not a generational one. The billionaires love it when we blame boomers, Zoomers, Xers, etc., instead of blaming billionaires.

Or maybe just questioning if there's any point in achieving them at all.

Life milestone should be violent revolution. Otherwise nothing will change.

It was hard enough as a millennial getting to the point I'm at and it's still not easy. I feel very bad for Gen Z. They're getting fucked over

As a kid I heard people talk about how Japanese culture was being destroyed because they're overworked, and how they didn't really have a way out of it politically. I always thought that would be us eventually. I didn't know how true that was until now. The only way out of this mess is through it, and people with money completely understand this.

Well yeah, millennials also severely delayed and fuck all has been done to improve things. Add in a few pandemic school years on top of it

My wife and I decided that we didn't want to put children into this world. I did the snip snip recently. It just feels way too bleak. Can't imagine putting a child through that.

My cousin and his wife want kids but they're both almost thirty and there's no way they can afford children any time soon. I feel so bad for them because with how life is going for them, it's not looking like they'll be able to be parents. I'm not parent.aterial and the thought of being a parent disgusts me, but it is heartbreaking to the people I care about not being able to achieve their dream of starting a family

The use of the term "milestone" or "goal" when the article talks about how these are neither for a growing percentage of the population is interesting.

Best thing you can do is to participate in as little of the mainstream economy as possible.

We are witnessing something very fascinating happening. Big companies fat on their earlier success are shedding workforce. At the same time AI has made people productive enough to need less staff than before. This is culminating into high unemployment.

Necessity is the mother of invention. There will be new, smaller businesses. Spend your money there if you have it. Just accept that some thing won't be as good as what a big company produces.

I know I'll probably never not live with family.

“When I was young we just had the kids even though we didn’t have the space or money. We just figured it out and made it work”

“Yes we were able to buy our own house at the age of 12. No, my kids don’t talk to me anymore, why do you ask?”

These are seeds of fascism, right there. Numbers like these are mutually exclusive with democracy.

No fucking shit. I both do and do not get why it takes "experts" to say this shit. Everything is fucked, what do you expect? Yeah, yeah, having an expert say something notifies people not connected to the affected people, but come fucking on.

This shit makes me so angry because it feels like there are a bunch of people with their heads up their ass that just came out for their once a decade deep breath only to realize something fucking changed while they were napping in their colon. Can't fucking deal with this shit.

Ten years ago, the average home, at the average mortgage rate, and with a 20-percent down payment would’ve cost $1,952.04 per month. Today, that monthly cost is $3,470.95, according to mortgage data site Mortgage Calculator.

The real barrier people rarely talk about is down payment.

Apartment rent and small house mortgage aren't that different, and mortgage stays mostly the same. The only part that changes is property value keeps going up so taxes and insurance keep going up.

If it wasn't for that, first and last payment would be exactly the same. It's even a frequent complaint of boomers with paid off mortgages, because you never stop paying those things.

Even people with paid off mortgages would benefit from lower housing costs.

I think catering to family life is a non goal of european governments since they smell clankers could generate wealth for the few.