It's actually kind of sad, how much the world sucks for Millennials.
And their children? Fuck, I don't even want to contemplate the Orwellian hellscape their America will be.
Sucks to be born in a dying empire.

GOT

DAYUM

MILLENNIALS

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Damn, son.

Those of us with faith know this is of little importance. But those of us who lean more right, understand how nasty their environment will be

queue Pettimore's It's Only Going To Get Worse meme

I’m a millennial. I paid off my last student loan Thursday.

you rang?

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noice.

@Scalped

hell, i like you.

you can come over to my harbour freight blue tarp down by the river and fuck my sister.

MUH AVOCADOS

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What the fuck did I miss ?
Gen x with boomer mindset reporting in.

I just repaired my clothes dryer and rubbed patchouli oil in my beard cause the on/off again blonde millennial hippy gal I hang out with loves it.

Keep that 6' 5" 7% body fat fucker from Montana away from her please

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we got a new Zooma greenhorn a couple years ago who was 6'5" and 150-lbs.

not cancer or full blown AIDz.  just super skinny.

looked like he was fixin' to die.

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Me voting in the primaries

Skinny gals =

Skinny guys = might be gay

Fuckin crybabies . What about boomers grandparents or their grandparents ? What could they get ? Bitch less , nobody cares and nobody ever got shit sitting around crying about some other  generation.

While mostly true, I was raised in the’80s and our house was four times that size.

Elder millennial here.

Graduated college with 0 debt.

Bought my first house at 24.

Many of the college and housing options have gone to shit since then. I was a giant idiot at 18YO and there was no way you would have convinced me to go $150K into debt for a useless degree. Or to buy a $500K starter home.

If I were king for a day, the colleges would take it in the ass for overcharging, and be forced to pay off 50% of the loans used to get their worthless degrees. The students would have to pay off 33% and the government would pay the remaining 17%, for foolishly backing bad loans. Oh and end gov backing for college loans going forward which could be subject to bankruptcy.

Lol is this sarcasm?

The lone homeboy shouting YEAH!

I salute you, sir

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Wait, you didn’t spend 6 years getting a bachelors in gender studies and piling up student loans for phones, bars, spring break and that sweet new whip?

CSB

tell it again

One of the distinguishing characteristics of stupid leftist democrats is to blame others for their own failures.   Projection.    Just a reminder in case you care about yourself.

If you're booming and a lil college loan (for the kid) hurts ya, then you have made some bad life decisions.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. wakeboarder's art is trolling. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

There will be a ton of rage/denial.

Boomers say stuff like-
I worked part time and construction in the sun all summer for minimum wage and paid of my own damn college and rent!

When you say something like,
Well, when you were 18 in 1968 minimum wage was 1.60 (15 bucks in today’s dollars)
A year of tuition and fees at State U was $400.  (3500 in today’s dollars.)
Rent in the off campus housing apartments 2 miles away was $70.  (About 600 in today’s dollars.)
You bought a used Ford Bronco that left the factory 3 years ago, had 20K miles on it, for $1500. (13K in today’s dollars.)

When your son went to the same school in 1994 minimum wage was 4.25.  (About 9 bucks in today’s dollars.)
A year of tuition and fees was about 13K in today’s dollars.
The same apartments were $800 in today’s dollars.
They bought a 1991 Bronco with 25K on it for about 20K in today’s dollars.

For your grandson, minimum wage is 7.25.
A year of tuition and fees at the same school is 20K.
The same apartments start at 1800 a month.
A three year old Bronco is 40K.

And…
The median household income in 1968 is about the same as today corrected for inflation.
But…
It was majority single income households.  And the majority of dual income households one was part time.
Now it’s majority two income households.  And the majority of second incomes are full time.

Plus…
A new college grad had an average starting income MORE than the median household income, not less like now.
Additionally, they had about a 70% chance of full medical insurance and a defined benefit pension.

And, when you made it big and bought that big beautiful home on the lake in 1978 with the huge yard, great neighbors, no crime, a short commute, and wonderful schools…
For 65K at 10%
You put 6.5K down,
And paid about $510 a month.
In today’s dollars It was about a 300K home with a 30K down payment and a monthly 2400 payment.

The clone of that home in the same neighborhood, for your son in 2004,
In today’s dollars- was 500K with a 50K down payment - and at 6% about a 2700 monthly payment.

For your grandson to buy it now - one of those same exact homes- also at 6%,
It’s an 800K home.  So put 80K down , then pay about 4300 a month.

This is not even counting higher insurance, property taxes, etc.

You can TALK about your high interest rates and crazy inflation numbers-
And how young adults and families would be just fine if they weren’t wasting money on avacado toast, Starbucks, and iPhones, -
And how your Bronco didn’t have AC, and a new one will last longer, and we can get a tv for 87 dollars, etc.

But as someone born in the 1960s but a few years too young to be a boomer-
That started out poor rural working class and built a pretty nice life-
I will look you in the eye and tell you that you are full of shit.

Young adults and families- good hard working people- the ones that are just like some of us that kicked ass - are economically getting their shit pushed in compared to what it was like for us.

On positive side you kids can demand we use your special pro-nouns and remove your sex organs.

@Trunalimunumaprzure

one of the tiny girls at work needs a transmission installed in her 2003 $runner.

i was doing the arf Gee Dee gigachad yesterday and talking about renting a transmission jack from Sunbelt for the weekend and swapping the transmission in the pahkin' lot as a bob villa chef MMA fighter tough guy hardcase navy squeal Toyota Master Tech^TM with my platoon of overqualified helpers and my shitload of harbour freight Icon tools (just as gud ) and arsenal of 10mm sockets.

think i scared the poor girl.

"You ever take off all your clothes and run backwards through a cornfield?"

I'm assuming your folks did that and that's how they made their millions?

Maybe they should have gotten a real job in STEM or become a PA

Oh look more wealth rabble rousing by leftists. How refreshing.  The truth is the current generation refuses to put in the work and only wants the rewards.

It's education that is every bit as different, and every bit as much to blame.

There were no teacher's unions, and if your dumb ass failed, it failed.

A boomer's HS education is arguably superior to your typical liberal arts bachelor's degree today. Math, science, literature, grammar, and writing.

There's a reason you don't see these people on the street asking simple questions targeting boomers.

Curious to know how many guys live in your 2 bedroom apartment in the shitty part of town? What is the best day to go to the grocery store to buy the veggies in the damaged can? Are you close to a day old bread store? What’s your favorite flavor of ramen noodles? Have they come up with something better than duct tape to fix the seat in your car? Can you still buy reconditioned car batteries? What is the starting pay at the local concrete contractors? How much tuition assistance does the guard pay now? How much do you get for the GI bill?

Proportionally my first apartment is over twice what I paid.
The equivalent vehicle is twice as much.
The same university twice as much.
Medical insurance, also way more.
I could not afford my starter home right now in that stage of life.
My first nice home, the same.
The home I am in now is proportionally half again the expense it was for me.
Not counting increased property tax rates, insurance, property tax, etc.

Is it so hard to think back to when you were younger and things were tight and maybe even struggling -
And imagine what if your rent, insurance, tuition, vehicle, etc. were twice as much?

LOL!!  I paid for college as I went, last minimum wage job I had was when I was 16, had a real job by 22 and bought my first house at 23.  That's how "boomers" actually did it.

I bought transmissions from the junk yard. Thankfully they had a 30 day guarantee since it seemed the first one never worked. You couldn’t rent a Jack but a turbo 400 only weighs about 150 lbs. I actually got to do 1 in a garage, that was awesome!

I don’t care if you can’t afford a house, I have two.

I stayed out of trouble, graduated, went into the military and learned a skill (mechanic) that was transferable to civilian life, got my zero down guaranteed VA loan, went to work, married a good woman who got her college degree and went to work, have been married for nearly 40 yrs, earned every single thing I have.

go cry elsewhere

Ah that's nothing I bought my first house for 16k and sold it for 1.5mil. Then I took that and tripled it on the next house.  Then I bought Google 300k thousand shares for 3 dollars and apple at 2 dollars  400k shares amd never sold.  Pretty much all the boomers did this

Both of you could fuck right off.  I'm a Boomer, can do math & know for a fact that we had it easier when it comes to college tuition.

My parents paid for my tuition, books, etc.  I worked two part time jobs to pay for all my other expenses.  I had several friends that worked part time and paid for college on their own.  My girlfriend was still in school after I graduated and she worked part time to pay for her college expenses.  Back then, tuition at Auburn was under $600 for the year (3 quarters) and bama tuition was about the same (but why bother.) 2024 tuition at Auburn is now over $12K for the year.

No way kids nowadays can do that.

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These are the kind of people I am talking about.

Let’s say they are a young couple that graduated in 1994 with him an engineering degree and her PA degree.

And they paid 190K for their home.
And 40K each for their living expenses, tuition, etc. during college.

About a 400K home in today’s dollars.
About 80K for college.

In 2024,
That exact same home is 750K.
And at the same university, it was 130K for him
And her’s is now 6 instead of 4 years, so 200K for her.

They will NOT be moving into/buying that exact same home 12 miles from work in the no crime area a walk from a sweet park, 2 miles from a fantastic public school, etc. that the exact same 1994 couple could in 2024.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get into the military now?

I guess they forgot to tell all the young guys I work with that they were supposed to be the tech savvy ones .

While I fix all kinds of electrical,  PCM and , frequency converter problems on 1.5 million dollar maritime machineery and they all stand around and scratch their asses .

As for elections you only get one choice smart guy.
Perhaps you think another Carter term would have been better .

Take ur boomer hate bullshit and stick it where the sun don't shine .

College was pretty much pay-as-you-go back in the late '50s - early '60s unless their folks were well off or they got an athletic scholarship.
Parents started saving at birth and kids joined in when they were old enough for a part time job. Summers were spent working full time.

Almost no one wasted money on worthless 4-year degrees, most went to trade schools or community colleges for 2 years.

Gen Xer here.  I recall as a lad the story of the high school PE teacher buying a house a few blocks from the beach in San Diego for some absurd amount (< 50k) in the 60s, stay at home wife and putting 2 kids through UC schools.  Now that home is worth probably 3-4M, but even when I lived there 20 years ago it was a million dollar home.  I did the math and figured since I had gone about as high as I could in my organization (academia), I could work my entire life at that position and never be able to live in areas like that.  Thankfully I saw the corrupt game for what it was and found greener pastures.

What most fail to realize is college costs spiraled out of control due to the huge benefits packages given to faculty and staff.  Those gold plated pensions would make most in the private sector fall over.  When the demographic and economic worm turned and those pensions went from overfunded to underfunded the solution to make up the difference was to increase tuition.  It tripled when I was in school and myself and most of my friends had to bust ass to get out ASAP and that was decades ago.  I didn't know anyone on loans, I don't think there were lenders dumb enough to lend to idiot kids back then - without a government backstop.

And don't get me started on health care costs.  This country is fked.

My starter house was in a lower middle class vinyl village on the blue collar west side of Indy in 1990.

We paid $89,000 and borrowed money from my MIL for the down payment. FHA mortgage at 10-11% maybe? I know it was an ARM.

Yes and no.
A boomer with a college prep track HS diploma probably had a better education than about 2/3 of current college graduates.
A Gen Ed track maybe about 1/3 - 1/2.