It took me 20+ years of 40+ hours of work a week (when I could get it) to be able to afford a house, doing without things like eating out, having a cellphone, going on vacations. But then, I’m no boomer. Boomers started being born in 1945 and ended in 1964; that means that today, they’re between 60 and 80 years old.
I’m pretty sure that at this point, Gen Z will find that it’s Gen X and Millennials who are questioning their work ethic… and not the work ethic of ALL of Gen Z, just those who expect everything to be handed to them as if they were boomers.
Yeah, the housing market sucks, and it has got progressively worse over the past 50 years. But then I remember that when my parents built their house, the oil crisis was in full swing, they’d just seen their savings vanish in the market crash, and they lived for a year in the shell of a house they built with their own hands — they’d been able to afford land in the middle of nowhere, and ran out of money part way through construction. They eventually finished it and got back on their feet.
The big thing today is that very few people are willing to go buy property in the middle of nowhere and risk starvation or exposure and 10 years of their lives to make it all work.
And I’m not saying they should have to; there were socially progressive programs put in place to make things better for this generation — and they failed. So now we’re back to the 1800s as far as social security and healthcare, and have to make the best of it.
Anyone questioning the work ethic of gen z is themselves lazy, stupid, entitled, and has never worked a day in their life.
Life in the US and West in general is harder now than at any point in the last 60 years. Gen z works more hours for lower pay than you did at the same age, or than I did. And I worked a lot of hours for shit pay.
I will never own a house. Moving to the middle of nowhere doesn’t work, there’s no jobs and the houses arent much cheaper. It will take the death of capitalism or massive crippling depopulation for me to own a home. These are incontrovertible facts, and its worse for the average Gen z or alpha.
It took me 20+ years of 40+ hours of work a week (when I could get it) to be able to afford a house, doing without things like eating out, having a cellphone, going on vacations. But then, I’m no boomer. Boomers started being born in 1945 and ended in 1964; that means that today, they’re between 60 and 80 years old.
I’m pretty sure that at this point, Gen Z will find that it’s Gen X and Millennials who are questioning their work ethic… and not the work ethic of ALL of Gen Z, just those who expect everything to be handed to them as if they were boomers.
Yeah, the housing market sucks, and it has got progressively worse over the past 50 years. But then I remember that when my parents built their house, the oil crisis was in full swing, they’d just seen their savings vanish in the market crash, and they lived for a year in the shell of a house they built with their own hands — they’d been able to afford land in the middle of nowhere, and ran out of money part way through construction. They eventually finished it and got back on their feet.
The big thing today is that very few people are willing to go buy property in the middle of nowhere and risk starvation or exposure and 10 years of their lives to make it all work.
And I’m not saying they should have to; there were socially progressive programs put in place to make things better for this generation — and they failed. So now we’re back to the 1800s as far as social security and healthcare, and have to make the best of it.
Hi, millennial here.
Anyone questioning the work ethic of gen z is themselves lazy, stupid, entitled, and has never worked a day in their life.
Life in the US and West in general is harder now than at any point in the last 60 years. Gen z works more hours for lower pay than you did at the same age, or than I did. And I worked a lot of hours for shit pay.
I will never own a house. Moving to the middle of nowhere doesn’t work, there’s no jobs and the houses arent much cheaper. It will take the death of capitalism or massive crippling depopulation for me to own a home. These are incontrovertible facts, and its worse for the average Gen z or alpha.