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.
These are seeds of fascism, right there. Numbers like these are mutually exclusive with democracy.
Life milestone should be violent revolution. Otherwise nothing will change.
It seems more and more likely that the violent revolution we are gonna get is a Night of broken glass. Just targeting trans people and other queers instead of Jews.
I know I’ll probably never not live with family.
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 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.
They gonna have to rethink what a life milestone even is, just like many of the millenials are finally, really accepting.
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
Or maybe just questioning if there’s any point in achieving them at all.
I’m Gen x. I don’t have kids, a home, or any of these so-called milestones. Probably never will. We’re all fucked.
I feel this so often these days. Too many older people I’ve known over the years have gotten fucked over even after putting in all the work to make it… why even try when you’ll fail anyway.
I’m questioning my life choices so hard rn. I miraculously got to buy a house, but now the foundation and bottom floor is fucked from a tornado that spawned essentially on top of me and it’ll cost half the cost of the whole house to fix. If my home insurance won’t cover it, I won’t be able to fix it
fingers crossed, I hope that the insurance will cover it
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
eyup. feel I got to some milestones about 10 years after it should be and now unemployed about 15 years before retirement just hemoraging savings.
I’ll never know retirement.
im pretty sure you will like me. it will be retirement but what it will really be is poverty.
I’m exactly on the same page. Huge leaps in wage, but my life is moving backwards.
Are they actually surprised?
Even the previous generation were delaying and skipping milestones.
Pikachu face: late stage capitalism.I’m firmly in the millennial camp in my mid thirties and I have two pairs of couple friends who’ve had kids. It could absolutely be my friends circle, but most of us are in the trades or have advanced degrees (most of the people who went the college route also have more than a bachelor’s, because that alone wasn’t enough to get a job) and we just can’t make it work. Many of them want kids, but they want to be able to provide for them first, so they’re just waiting
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.
Gen Z, ripping off millenials again.
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.
I mean, an unachievable goal is still a goal.
A goal is something you seek to achieve. Looks like a lot of people are no longer seeking to achieve the things previous generations have attempted to convince them to chase.
They’re not seeking to achieve them* in the same way a homeless person who’s been homeless for years might give up on not being homeless. They’re not attaining enlightenment and abandoning their mortal coil here; they’re being priced out of things they want to do.
*Says you, at least. That’s not what the article says; that’s what you seem to want it to say.
It can be very hard to disentangle the cause and effect of ‘not wanted so it doesn’t count as a failure to not get it,’ vs ‘can’t do it, so won’t say I want it,’ vs ‘might want to do it but everyone and everything is getting fucked so hard these days and I don’t want to watch my kid get fucked, so not going to bother having one.’
Why assume everyone wants a house, a marriage, and children to begin with?
Because by and large most people do? People are essentially hardwired for the second and third, and almost nobody rents because they want to rent.
Clearly you’ve never taken a management class.
