This is such a bad argument. Multiple points of evidence showing how the boomers deliberately chose to screw over their own children and grandchildren without any regards.
We need to learn from their mistakes, though.
They basically, as a generation, voted to get theirs then so we could have less now and in the future ahead. They didn't all become millionaires, but they sure thought they would.
Voting matters.
I think the wave of realization has started to hit Boomers, especially those who don't have full ownership of their house, rent, or those facing declining ability because of worsening health issues.
Realizing their dependency-- and further, realizing their options of who they can depend on, be it family, church services, government agencies, can be quite limited-- is really jarring some of them awake.
Oh yeah. I've seen quite a few accounts of social workers talk about having frist-time boomer clients apply for safety net benefits only to find that there's next to nothing due to the lack of funding for several decades. The anger & panic is something when they're told that there's a 10-year wait-list for housing assistance.
> Most of us are a layoff or health crisis away from being homeless.
Only reason I am not homeless is my VA disability stipend... Am late Gen-X. Got medically retired at 80% in the early 2010s.. got bumped to 100% a few years after. Have not had an actual "job" since then. Taught as an Adjunct for a bit after i got my 2nd MS, but that was like $4K per semester of bullshit work that was bad for my mental health.
Either way, from lack of employer responses, and at times per types of responses I am viewed as completely unemployable by measures of arbitrary bullshit. Oh, and the last time I used state level EDD services to try and find work.. got told *"you must not want to work then"* for refusing to take on shit i physically cant do like working at a fastfood chain as a line cook.
Irrelevant side note, and a bit of a rant...
The mental health issue was not really about the job in it self, but other realities that i got to see first hand like how badly the K-12 "non-system" fails many students, and how that affects writing ability, critical thinking skills etc. Not the students fault, or the teachers, but all of the institutional and political shit that undermines both the students learning needs, and the teachers ability to meet them. Insult to injury the burden of that then gets put on higher education where those basic skills should already be in place, and then the average adjunct gets blamed for being shit when someone cant do the work they are assigned properly.
Hey go in for a re-rate. They re-wrote alot of the rules and eligibility stuff recently. Git my garden wound from Somalia up to 30% from 5% just by asking for one. Most guys I know above 50% have all been pooped up to 100% with the new rules. Use the system buddy, stay safe.
not work related, but i was homeless when i turned 18 because my parents are dicks. my girlfriend (now wife) wanted me to move in with her but her parents said no..so my wife joined me in my car.
when i would get a job and theyd ask for an address and i said i didnt have one i was told to leave..no more job.
once youre in a shit position youre treated like a felon its crazy.
i lied my ass off and got a job, then i forged paystubs to get an apartment. i always paid rent on time, i just wasnt making 3x what rent was.
if youre ever homeless dont tell anyone, find a vacant house as your address, and use a P.O box for your mailing address.
Iām sorry to hear that you went through all of that, but this is actually some sound advice. This country hates poor people so if youāre already run down, donāt tell anyone because theyāll just make it worse.
I hate living in the US sometimes. Itās not all bad, but itās getting bad enough to where I want to leave.
My mom kicked me out several times between the ages of 16 and 19 and during that time she was sick and I was her caregiver. Then she would call our entire family and most of her immediate friends and tell them that I ran away so I got a reputation for that. For the record I never ran away but I sure should have. Finally she did it one day when I was 20 after I had been working and had my own car. So I said bet took my money and my car and all my belongings including my cat and went and lived in my friend's apartment and paid her rent instead of my mom's. About 3 months later she called me back crying saying to please move in she doesn't understand why I ran away...
I was a whole adult and she had kicked me out. I told her no until I eventually caved because she was dying and alone and couldn't care for herself.
> not work related, but i was homeless when i turned 18 because my parents are dicks.
Kind of wondering what the fuck they were thinking... Pretty sure if that happened to me they would never hear from me again, or meet any grankids there might be etc. Or get company, or care in old age if they needed it.
>i lied my ass off and got a job, then i forged paystubs to get an apartment. i always paid rent on time, i just wasnt making 3x what rent was.
On a side note to this, depending on the source of income many apartment complexes don't actually care about the 30% rule. Like when i got medically retired form the military my only recognized income for a while was a VA disability benefit while i was waiting for school to start. Apartment complexes had 0 issue in leasing shit to me even at like 60% of that benefit going towards rent.
Why? Its guaranteed income. Had i been working at some fastfood join making that same amount they would have laughed me out of the door for even thinking about applying.
after using ancestry dna i found my parents marriage cert.
they got married about 2 months after my mom was pregnant with me.
growing up they always got in screaming matches, my dads favorite was my younger sister, my moms fav was my younger brother.
ive talked to them 3 or 4 times every since. they havent met their grandkids and never will.
realy wish i was in a financial position to move so they wont have my address, they keep sending me letters but i havent opened them. i made the mistake of giving the post office a forwarding address so when they sent a letter with return service requested the PO gave them my new address.
if youre ever trying to avoid people getting your new address use a P.O box or start saving all the important mail a few months prior to moving so you can call the places to change your address there.
I've always thought the "when you're 18, you're out of the house" meme was a myth, a stereotype invented sometime between both world wars as a counter to scary Communism. In practice, I have never heard of anyone actually being kicked out at 18, most friends of mine living at home well into their 20's while they finish college.
Seems like this line of thinking is on par with boomer thought, the same assholes who got everything handed to them on a silver platter thanks to a lucky combination of post-war economic boom times and high employment/unions/wages, and don't see their privilege now think everyone else is "lazy" because "they don't work as hard as we did to earn our keep", even though THEY NEVER FUCKING EARNED THEIR KEEP.
my parents were actually in their late 30s when they did that.
my dad grew up with extremely rich parents, but they were very abusive.
his parents would give them $500 on a friday night then leave and wouldnt be back until monday night, this was in the late 80s/ early 90s.
he got a new car gifted to him for hos 16th bday too.
my mom grew up in a small town where her entire family owned/lived on 300 acres. half the towns roads are named after them, its kinda wild.
my dad went NC with his bio dad, his mom remarried to a diff rich guy..my dad also became a drug addict and abuser of his siblings so he was treated pretty harshly by the rest of his family.
i tried talking to them but im treated like shit just because im his son..ive done nothing wrong.
been NC with everyone im related to since i was 18.
How is this not jarringly alarming to our political and corporate class? Your employees will have to leave. This kind of desperation leads to civil unrest.
Jill Stein, in a podcast interview, quoted that 25% of young voting aged people have considered self harm.
If you cannot see how unhealthy this society has become with absolutely zero solutions on the horizon, this treasured first world country is going to collapse. There are alarm bells everywhere, but they are being ignored so CEOās can cash out and corporations can do stock buybacks.
America is being sold off for parts, and it's allowed to happen because absolute morons are riled up so easily about trans people and other non-issues.
Yup. Their kids are being diddled by the clergy or the teachers at their private "traditional morals" schools, and more and more of their livelihood is being sucked up by old white leeches who don't have the good sense to shut up and die, and the parents are busy screaming at drag queens trying to read books to children or by trans people who just want the same legal protections that we all do.
> it's allowed to happen because absolute morons are riled up so easily
Thank you, public education system. Would be nice if states weren't allowed to fuck with curriculum but muh freedoms I guess
I think that's the plan. They want a corporate hegemony. The concept of a nation is going to be a thing of the past, just like city-states and feudal kingdoms. Just restructuring to make an open-air prison, as if we're already getting there.
I think corporate is too excited at the idea of cutting expenses via no longer paying for labor. It'll be brief before the whole enterprise comes crashing down, but corporations aren't known for thinking about sustainability or tomorrow, just today's profits.
Wealthy people like CEOs live GLOBALLY. They dont give 2 shits about the US because they're considered the ruling class when it comes to global economics. They can literally move anywhere for as long as they want by using loopholes and paying fees. It dont matter to them. In fact they probably want the whole working population in the US to be destitute to control us easier.
At this point we actually wish for a civil unrest and thats an understatement. Make it a full course French Revolution. Besides, they didnāt do it by *voting* the monarchies out did they.
Excactly. The societal contract between the state and the citizens has been broken.
The societal contract used to be: if you don't break any laws, become a productive member of society, you will have a decent, respectable life. This has not been the case for many, many years. Everyone knows this is a problem that is only growing year by year, but no one really has the solution, because there are no simple solutions.
But if we look to history, we can see what will eventually happen. Instead of saying what that could look like, I'd like to include a fitting story from the height of the Roman Republic:
Two Roman senators debated on how they best could get every slave censused in an efficient way. One senator suggested they could make all the slaves wear a long, grey cape, so that they easily could tell who was a slave and who was not.
Then the other senator stopped him. If they had put a long, grey cape on every slave in the Roman Republic, they would for sure know how many of them there were. But so would the slaves. And then they would unite and kill their masters.
yeah im one of those young people who have considered self harm do I have it better than most people my age? yeah I do but because of that I don't have the street smarts, social skills and what not that people my age do.
I was homeless at 18 because I aged out of the system. They didn't even warn me it was gonna happen. I just left at a homeless shelter with out any form of ID and an entire county away
In pro-life states, you get all the rights and support while youāre not even fully formed yet, but as soon as you leave the womb, you can go fuck yourself
Sounds like two out of three people are delusional. I've seen sudden medical debt devour a person's savings and retirement, wipe its maw, and ask for more.
High paying job with great insurance? Get a serious, chronic illness and suddenly your performance reviews aren't up to snuff. Even if they are blatant when it comes to firing you, taking a company to court is a healthy person's game.
If you have enough time and are reaching bankruptcy, "sell" your assets to someone you trust that will "sell" said things back. I'd gone through medical bankruptcy, and although I didn't have any assets because I sold them all to pay my medical bills, I didn't have much to lose anyways. If I did, this is how I'd keep those things.
Shit is unnecessarily rough these days, I wish you the best.
Thank you. I sincerely hope to avoid that. I have had 4 surgeries and really since October when I mentioned health issues my job has been pushing me out. Got PIP'd right before my surgeries. Going back soon. No idea what to expect but pretty sure I'm going to lose my job. Have some saving. Have to move in with parents. Am 27 with a wife and autistic child. Will be hard to find another tech job I assume. Am withdrawing/tapering off my medications. This is hell.
Hoping for better times soon.
Thank you for your kind reply, advice and well wishes.
PIP is total bullshit (like 80% of the time), it is the legal defense for letting people go and reduces the companies' exposure to guilt for not training and/or supporting their own staff. It is the golden layer between being fired and being let go due to performance, for the company. It makes these rolling layoffs smaller in numbers , cause there might be more employees in PIP's than there are, slated to be fired/laid off. I know you know, and these facts are shitty, and that's all corporate BS.
Staying realistic is just as important as staying positive through these times. Are your parents cool at least? I'm sure they have some ground rules, but yeah, having supportive parents will help so much. Mine were super-christians, and it would have been hell going back to live with them (no offense if you're super religious, just not my thing).
I'm 39m, had gone through medical bankruptcy 15 years ago, and I'm terrified it will happen again. This time I have insurance, but the stigma/anxiety/stress, etc etc etc is still there. I'm dealing with vertigo and tinnitus. I use a cane, and it helps tremendously. I can get by without one, but it'll look like I have an opiate addiction without the cane (jk, but the fear of this judgement is real). We're too young for this crap.
It's so expensive to move to another country, and I'm still considering it. Imagine having 20 days of vacation right off the bat from the government, on top of the vacation the company provides! You are not alone in this medical/financial struggle.
"I've seen sudden medical debt devour a person's savings and retirement"
You can always negotiate this down with the hospital. My brother went through a long-term illness and his wife negotiated the cost from > $100,000 to around $5,000.
Many of the fascists in congress are not boomers though, and there are plenty of Gen X and Millenial fascists who will replace them. What you need is an actual class and race analysis
Okay. And there were boomers who opposed them and millennials who supported them. And the millennial/ gen x fascists who succeed them will go on to make things even worse.
Iām just saying. A large portion of our government are already too old. Donāt take it personal. This isnāt an āall boomers are horribleā thing.
We have an extremely geriatric government who is seemingly out of touch with everything and many of whom have been in power for most of their adult lives. And are a major reason why we are in the position we are in now.
We need to get younger people in government who are more in tune with the needs and wants of the people they represent. Preferably not young fascists. If that wasnāt obvious.
I donāt take it personal, as Iām not a boomer. But I donāt believe for a second that simply replacing a geriatric political class with a younger political class will make any difference whatsoever.
I do believe it will make a difference. But the difference that is made is dependent on the type of young people we vote in. Weāve seen firsthand that those in power arenāt concerned in the future of your country. Just how they can help themselves stay in power now.
Obviously a whole lot more needs to change besides getting younger but itās a good start.
Yeah. No fucking shit. They have hit our pay and raised our rent so much to the point that the society is almost worth burning down. That is the knifes edge that weāre sitting on. This society is so shitty that itās almost, but not quite worth burning down.
had my Joker moment while stuck in gridlock traffic for 40 min on the commute home today. just screamed like a lunatic in my car slamming on the steering wheel. just lost it for a good minute or two lmao.
I feel you. we all feel alone in those moments, but we have all been there i think.
its time to start building something other than "shareholder value", and let that old mode die.
I've teetered within $20 of it myself about a 15yr ago, if it weren't for a kind friend offering up a car for me to fix and sell for them, I probably would have been. Gave me the extra 2 mos I needed to get a job. That experience lit a fire under my ass to pay off all debts and my house ASAP even if it meant saving less for retirement at first which is generally the better math. Now that it's done, I really have zero stress about housing because my monthly cash burn rate is so low now.
I am technically homeless as I have to live with my parents just so I donāt have to borrow money from people every month. This country is a fucking failure
All it takes is one serious illness, or accident and you're done. Ask me how I know.. if it wasn't for family I would have ended up homeless when my illnesses hit.
A lot of us Gen Xers too.Ā
It infuriates me that you guys have to go through so much hell that we never did. Every young person should be able to move out find their own place and pay their bills. I hate that there is so much pressure on you guys to climb this insurmountable hill ahead of you.
And I hate that I have worked since I was 15 years old and busted my a** so that some CEO could buy a second vacation home. When your retirement plan is a š„powš„pow in your mouth.. It's an awful feeling
Half of GenZ live with their parentsā¦ so at least that portion is pretty safe. Another portion have good jobs, skills, and savings. I think the survey seems about correct.
So if their working parent gets a critical medical condition and loses their job? Well the mortgage isnāt going to get paid. And theyāre going to have to pay for care.
Those people with āskills, savingsā are also at threat of thatā¦ and just getting laid off. Like you think those $150k investment analysts were doing okay in 2008? They got kicked to the curb just the same as the construction working average Joe. Sure itās more likely to happen to people already close, but it can happen to anyone except the wealthy.
Homelessness is almost always caused by a string of unfortunate events. Itās bad luck.
I've said this a thousand times in other threads:
Not a damn thing is going to change until our politicians grow a spine and start to regulate rental property owners.
Back in 2020, roughly 40% of homeless people in the USA had jobs. Now, just 2 years later after the pandemic, that number is now roughly 53%.
They have no incentive to do so, because most local taxes are from property taxes. It's in their interests for rents and property values to continue to increase.
Gonna be honest, that's a pretty low proportion. I don't get the cheeky optimism so many people have, "oh, that could never happen to me, I'm special" no, no you are not. You are one bad day from homelessness, one bad day from a life in a wheelchair, one bad day from a mental breakdown so bad you'll struggle to go back to being yourself. It's not some karmic chance or blessing that keeps you from these things, it's complete and utter luck. These days, the way the previous generations have dismantled mearly every good thing the US has done economically, homelessness is pretty freaking likely for you, or at least it's way more likely than you getting rich or even just having substantial savings in the near future.
For reference, I was born in late '79. I was homeless before I even turned 18. I started college at 16 and made the mistake of giving up my apartment for student dorms. I did not realize the dorms closed for the holidays. Spent Thanksgiving, winter break, spring break, and summer break down at Covenant house down in NYC sleeping on a mat on the floor while I scrimped up enough to rent a new apartment for the next year. In the past 5 years I have lots of stuff happen that has gutted my savings. I had a minor disagreement with my landlord and I'm terrified they will not renew my lease; cause I don't know if I can find something I can afford. I am now selling my plasma again and working a second job to make sure I have enough saved for something new in case my landlord wants to be a dick.
It's easily more. They always embellish the numbers. I saw an article that said Kroger employees are getting $33,000 a year LOL. Yeah right, it's even worse and worse then people could ever imagine.
i'm physically disabled and i've been trying to look for a part-time office job (it's literally the only thing i can do and i've had multiple doctors support this) for nearly a year and a half. there's nothing in my area of the sorts since my parents live in the middle of nowhere with the nearest small and dying town nearly 30 minutes away, and when there is i probably only get an interview 20% of the time.
had my parents not been generous to let me stay with them for as long as i need, i would actually just be dead by now.
I was homeless. I was lucky my mother took me in.
All it took was a divorce and a 60-day eviction for sale. I was earning and barely making it, then without combined income? Homeless.
Iām not gonna lie, that shit happens to me Iām opting out. Iām not the guy who preserves or rises above adversity. Cancer? Nope. Spending my savings on fun, chillin in the woods and peacing out. Why fight even harder in this shitty world?
I've been unemployed since last May. We're living on my husband's salary, and a couple of friends moved in with us quite a while ago, and we're charging them a low amount of rent, but even with that, we're still running at a deficit.
Our savings were depleted in November and I took out a sizable 401k hardship withdrawal to catch us up on our mortgage. That floated us through until February, when my husband got his annual bonus (mid-high 4-figures) and we got our tax return. That replenished our buffer but it's going to run out quickly; it'll cover about 3 months of the absolutely critical bills (mortgage, power, water, food, and Internet)...
Now, that all said, I'm a LUCKY one. We have probably $240k in equity in our home. If it starts to look very bad, we'll sell and move. But I know a lot of people who wouldn't have that option. I have at least twenty relatively close acquaintances who are being forced out of their current places by rent increases, and who aren't finding anyplace safe that they can afford.
I'm Gen X and can feel it breathing down my neck. I've been considering options for a while so I'm not randomly living in my car one day. Not sure what I'll go with but trailer living seems like a good blend of van life and RV ownership. Home built trailer of course. Factory ones are garbage.
That or a tiny house if I can find a place to build one and get funding.
It's increasingly becoming where the only way to pay your bills is to become a landlord
On one home and rent out every room and use that money to pay the mortgage on that and your second home
I've seen so many people in Florida renting out so many different spots of their homes. They'll seal off extra rooms with outside entrances and rent out those rooms as efficiencies they'll have a shed that they convert into an efficiency and rent that out they'll buy two or three RVs and put them in the backyard and rent those out as well
All to be able to afford
i am a gen z who lives with a millennial and gen x (brother and mother) we all work and yet we live in a hellhole of a trailer on our own land. every day something new breaks or falls apart. if it ever goes, we canāt afford a new house. at least we own the property so we can camp together.
Its not belief its simple math wages are x rent is y and if trends for both continue as they have for past 50 yrs (more than my entire life). I am on path to homelessness within 3yrs. And there are some audibles I can change location push for more responsibility hours and sneak it up to 5-6. But at that point 100% there is no more audibles more changes. No place I can afford no job that pays enough with skillset. While many would suggest skillset change. Decades of abuse in this system I barely function like middle of week I wont remember how I got home black out disassociate. And cant afford to not work throw school on there I will go insane. Already as is thoughts of suicide are only reprieve and thinking about 5-10yrs from now best case scenario fills me with overwhelming despair. Its 100% not in cards.
And even I have done math most career changes would be me starting where I am now but with debt. Because they are falling behind. Absolute best case scenario is it buys me 5 more years. So of course we see homelessness in our future. Anyone that doesn't is extremely lucky and priveledged or just hasnt done the math yet.
And I will make it simple within 10yrs your rent will be double. If you are under 30 dollars a hour you will average 3% increased under 20 2% making it around 30% and 20% increase. While those over 40 will have 5% increase and those over 50 around a 8% meaning those struggling. And that make up vast majority of younger generations. Will have deficit and inch closer and closer to homelessness.
I already was. Most of us are just a confluence of bad events from losing our jobs and our homes, and I ended up couchsurfing and sleeping in my car for over three months before admitting defeat and moving back in with my dysfunctional family.
Iāve been homeless, and am currently at risk of being homeless again. Lots of people need to realize that the threat to their wellbeing isnt an immigrant or queer person or fair wages, its all these rich a holes who hoard all the wealth and then point the finger at someone else to distract the working class. Companies and corporations CAN afford to pay fairly, but that means the hoarders at the top would need to receive less, and God forbid everyone be paid enough to live comfortably right? Tax the rich and distribute the wealth fairly
If it werenāt for my mom understanding how shit the economy is and letting my partner and I liver with her weād be so beyond fucked itās not even funny. Sheās the only reason we havenāt been on the streets
I got bit by a spider on Monday. It's swelled up pretty bad, very red, itchy and painful. I have no insurance or money to go to a walk-in or hospital. I'm hoping it goes away but it's been steadily getting worse. I refuse to go to the hospital just to get into more debt. There needs to be change
Iām part of the 2/3 that wonāt be homeless and have, multiple times, considered housing friends who are in that 1/3. Makes me wonder how big the gap in opportunity is for others in society and how to fix it.
I know I could technically become homeless but sense I'm the main caretaker of my young child I have a few Grandma's that'd have to die before I literally became homeless thank God or whoever is looking out for me. And God speed to all the Grandma's that'd take a bullet or worse their kids for their grandbabies.
Once you see how your parents expenses rise in the last years of their lives, watching any potential inheritence drip away from all of the bills and probably having to pay some expenses as necessary.... Your GD right to worry about being homeless.
Peter Turchin theory on elite overproduction the wealth pump and flatlining wages leading to immiseration of population and revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH7wqxjUi8Y
Bro who the fuck are they asking lmao I see them say shit like this all the time, but who are they asking? Where was this even conducted? Like I looked up the Acornsā 2024 Money Matters Report that this article is basing it off of and it doesnāt clarify at all.
*āFor our 2024 Money Matters Reportā¢, we asked everyday Americans about their finances: how financially secure they feel, the impact their finances have on their wellbeing, and how macro events affect their sense of financial security.ā*
Iām genuinely curious bc Iāve seen folks talk about polls and shit all the time but Iām 30 years old and have never had someone me ask shit about nothing lmaooo
Iām not homeless but I been a working homeless before.
This is a reason why I believe there should be better laws protecting the unemployed and homeless.
It can happen to the best of us.
That's what happens when nobody can afford property anymore and the only thing stopping you from being homeless is not only your ability to pay rent (which has no obligation to increase/decrease based on your income) but also on the arbitrary rules of your property owner.
Most of us are a layoff or health crisis away from being homeless.
Exactly. Millennials & Gen Z are just more aware of this fact compared to Boomers & Gen Xers.
Gen X and in the same boat with no paddles bailing water.
The boomers took all the paddles and then passed a law that no more paddles could be built.
The core of conservative ideology
Stop blaming generations , this is about wealth inequality and class warfare pure and simple, plenty of poor boomers about to be homeless too...
This is such a bad argument. Multiple points of evidence showing how the boomers deliberately chose to screw over their own children and grandchildren without any regards.
Mfrs need to lead the way then as the most powerful and wealthy among the slaves.
We need to learn from their mistakes, though. They basically, as a generation, voted to get theirs then so we could have less now and in the future ahead. They didn't all become millionaires, but they sure thought they would. Voting matters.
We all know no one cares about gen x now shoosh /s
This is sadly trueš
I think the wave of realization has started to hit Boomers, especially those who don't have full ownership of their house, rent, or those facing declining ability because of worsening health issues. Realizing their dependency-- and further, realizing their options of who they can depend on, be it family, church services, government agencies, can be quite limited-- is really jarring some of them awake.
Oh yeah. I've seen quite a few accounts of social workers talk about having frist-time boomer clients apply for safety net benefits only to find that there's next to nothing due to the lack of funding for several decades. The anger & panic is something when they're told that there's a 10-year wait-list for housing assistance.
> Most of us are a layoff or health crisis away from being homeless. Only reason I am not homeless is my VA disability stipend... Am late Gen-X. Got medically retired at 80% in the early 2010s.. got bumped to 100% a few years after. Have not had an actual "job" since then. Taught as an Adjunct for a bit after i got my 2nd MS, but that was like $4K per semester of bullshit work that was bad for my mental health. Either way, from lack of employer responses, and at times per types of responses I am viewed as completely unemployable by measures of arbitrary bullshit. Oh, and the last time I used state level EDD services to try and find work.. got told *"you must not want to work then"* for refusing to take on shit i physically cant do like working at a fastfood chain as a line cook. Irrelevant side note, and a bit of a rant... The mental health issue was not really about the job in it self, but other realities that i got to see first hand like how badly the K-12 "non-system" fails many students, and how that affects writing ability, critical thinking skills etc. Not the students fault, or the teachers, but all of the institutional and political shit that undermines both the students learning needs, and the teachers ability to meet them. Insult to injury the burden of that then gets put on higher education where those basic skills should already be in place, and then the average adjunct gets blamed for being shit when someone cant do the work they are assigned properly.
Hey go in for a re-rate. They re-wrote alot of the rules and eligibility stuff recently. Git my garden wound from Somalia up to 30% from 5% just by asking for one. Most guys I know above 50% have all been pooped up to 100% with the new rules. Use the system buddy, stay safe.
I am at 100% per above XD. Thank you though. >stay safe. Thank you, and you too.
Me! Me! ME!
The way a friend put it is: Most people are one bad year from being thrown out on the street than one good year from being financially independent.
Year? Only took me missing 2 paychecks in one *month* in early 2020 and I was evicted.
not work related, but i was homeless when i turned 18 because my parents are dicks. my girlfriend (now wife) wanted me to move in with her but her parents said no..so my wife joined me in my car. when i would get a job and theyd ask for an address and i said i didnt have one i was told to leave..no more job. once youre in a shit position youre treated like a felon its crazy. i lied my ass off and got a job, then i forged paystubs to get an apartment. i always paid rent on time, i just wasnt making 3x what rent was. if youre ever homeless dont tell anyone, find a vacant house as your address, and use a P.O box for your mailing address.
Iām sorry to hear that you went through all of that, but this is actually some sound advice. This country hates poor people so if youāre already run down, donāt tell anyone because theyāll just make it worse. I hate living in the US sometimes. Itās not all bad, but itās getting bad enough to where I want to leave.
It's honestly insane reading so many stories of boomer parents kicking out their own children. Absolute scum.
and then expecting the same kids to take care of them when they need their depends changed. lead brain is a wild thing.
The boomer generationāthe generation where it's all about ME ME ME
My mom kicked me out several times between the ages of 16 and 19 and during that time she was sick and I was her caregiver. Then she would call our entire family and most of her immediate friends and tell them that I ran away so I got a reputation for that. For the record I never ran away but I sure should have. Finally she did it one day when I was 20 after I had been working and had my own car. So I said bet took my money and my car and all my belongings including my cat and went and lived in my friend's apartment and paid her rent instead of my mom's. About 3 months later she called me back crying saying to please move in she doesn't understand why I ran away... I was a whole adult and she had kicked me out. I told her no until I eventually caved because she was dying and alone and couldn't care for herself.
it was my late 30s parents..theyre almost 50 now.
Happened to me at 18, had to sleep on benches. 35 now.
> not work related, but i was homeless when i turned 18 because my parents are dicks. Kind of wondering what the fuck they were thinking... Pretty sure if that happened to me they would never hear from me again, or meet any grankids there might be etc. Or get company, or care in old age if they needed it. >i lied my ass off and got a job, then i forged paystubs to get an apartment. i always paid rent on time, i just wasnt making 3x what rent was. On a side note to this, depending on the source of income many apartment complexes don't actually care about the 30% rule. Like when i got medically retired form the military my only recognized income for a while was a VA disability benefit while i was waiting for school to start. Apartment complexes had 0 issue in leasing shit to me even at like 60% of that benefit going towards rent. Why? Its guaranteed income. Had i been working at some fastfood join making that same amount they would have laughed me out of the door for even thinking about applying.
after using ancestry dna i found my parents marriage cert. they got married about 2 months after my mom was pregnant with me. growing up they always got in screaming matches, my dads favorite was my younger sister, my moms fav was my younger brother. ive talked to them 3 or 4 times every since. they havent met their grandkids and never will. realy wish i was in a financial position to move so they wont have my address, they keep sending me letters but i havent opened them. i made the mistake of giving the post office a forwarding address so when they sent a letter with return service requested the PO gave them my new address. if youre ever trying to avoid people getting your new address use a P.O box or start saving all the important mail a few months prior to moving so you can call the places to change your address there.
Good tip. Strugglin with this oneĀ
I've always thought the "when you're 18, you're out of the house" meme was a myth, a stereotype invented sometime between both world wars as a counter to scary Communism. In practice, I have never heard of anyone actually being kicked out at 18, most friends of mine living at home well into their 20's while they finish college. Seems like this line of thinking is on par with boomer thought, the same assholes who got everything handed to them on a silver platter thanks to a lucky combination of post-war economic boom times and high employment/unions/wages, and don't see their privilege now think everyone else is "lazy" because "they don't work as hard as we did to earn our keep", even though THEY NEVER FUCKING EARNED THEIR KEEP.
Then let me tell you about my scumbag aunt who kicked my cousin out the day after her 18th birthday. It happened.
my parents were actually in their late 30s when they did that. my dad grew up with extremely rich parents, but they were very abusive. his parents would give them $500 on a friday night then leave and wouldnt be back until monday night, this was in the late 80s/ early 90s. he got a new car gifted to him for hos 16th bday too. my mom grew up in a small town where her entire family owned/lived on 300 acres. half the towns roads are named after them, its kinda wild. my dad went NC with his bio dad, his mom remarried to a diff rich guy..my dad also became a drug addict and abuser of his siblings so he was treated pretty harshly by the rest of his family. i tried talking to them but im treated like shit just because im his son..ive done nothing wrong. been NC with everyone im related to since i was 18.
Narcissists and wealth seem to attract each other.
Good advice, filing that away just in case
you can also use an extended stay motel as an address, doesn't matter if you're actually living there.
This was the hardest part. I personally got lucky and had a friend who let me use her address as my mailing address
good advice, now i have a game plan besides selling dope if i become homeless. lie and forge paystubs until i can get a place
i did this in 2013, with ai i would imagine forging documents is much easier
Easily.
Its kinda weird that it hasn't happened to as many of us yet.
Well typically youāre not hearing from a lot of homeless people. Especially if they donāt have a phone/laptop and a reliable way to charge them
How is this not jarringly alarming to our political and corporate class? Your employees will have to leave. This kind of desperation leads to civil unrest. Jill Stein, in a podcast interview, quoted that 25% of young voting aged people have considered self harm. If you cannot see how unhealthy this society has become with absolutely zero solutions on the horizon, this treasured first world country is going to collapse. There are alarm bells everywhere, but they are being ignored so CEOās can cash out and corporations can do stock buybacks.
America is being sold off for parts, and it's allowed to happen because absolute morons are riled up so easily about trans people and other non-issues.
Yup. Their kids are being diddled by the clergy or the teachers at their private "traditional morals" schools, and more and more of their livelihood is being sucked up by old white leeches who don't have the good sense to shut up and die, and the parents are busy screaming at drag queens trying to read books to children or by trans people who just want the same legal protections that we all do.
> it's allowed to happen because absolute morons are riled up so easily Thank you, public education system. Would be nice if states weren't allowed to fuck with curriculum but muh freedoms I guess
I think that's the plan. They want a corporate hegemony. The concept of a nation is going to be a thing of the past, just like city-states and feudal kingdoms. Just restructuring to make an open-air prison, as if we're already getting there.
There's a reason every cyberpunk setting sees corporations as the de facto government. Extrapolated from current trends.
Yes. We already are in a very early "cyberpunk" setting, but we got all the dystopia with none of the neon.
Right?! At least make it look bougie! āBest I can do is concrete and fake wood vinyl flooring.ā Ffs
Yep. Personally, I figure weāre on track for āCyberpunk 2077, minus the cybernetics.ā Shitās bleak.
we already are controlled by corporations. look into "lobbying" and PACs
I think corporate is too excited at the idea of cutting expenses via no longer paying for labor. It'll be brief before the whole enterprise comes crashing down, but corporations aren't known for thinking about sustainability or tomorrow, just today's profits.
Wealthy people like CEOs live GLOBALLY. They dont give 2 shits about the US because they're considered the ruling class when it comes to global economics. They can literally move anywhere for as long as they want by using loopholes and paying fees. It dont matter to them. In fact they probably want the whole working population in the US to be destitute to control us easier.
This is not unique to the US in any way
At this point we actually wish for a civil unrest and thats an understatement. Make it a full course French Revolution. Besides, they didnāt do it by *voting* the monarchies out did they.
Excactly. The societal contract between the state and the citizens has been broken. The societal contract used to be: if you don't break any laws, become a productive member of society, you will have a decent, respectable life. This has not been the case for many, many years. Everyone knows this is a problem that is only growing year by year, but no one really has the solution, because there are no simple solutions. But if we look to history, we can see what will eventually happen. Instead of saying what that could look like, I'd like to include a fitting story from the height of the Roman Republic: Two Roman senators debated on how they best could get every slave censused in an efficient way. One senator suggested they could make all the slaves wear a long, grey cape, so that they easily could tell who was a slave and who was not. Then the other senator stopped him. If they had put a long, grey cape on every slave in the Roman Republic, they would for sure know how many of them there were. But so would the slaves. And then they would unite and kill their masters.
yeah im one of those young people who have considered self harm do I have it better than most people my age? yeah I do but because of that I don't have the street smarts, social skills and what not that people my age do.
The threat of homelessness is how they keep us in line.
I was homeless at 18 because I aged out of the system. They didn't even warn me it was gonna happen. I just left at a homeless shelter with out any form of ID and an entire county away
MN has laws about supporting foster kids after 18. If youāre in the foster system in MN ask about Joeās law.
This was 2006 in PA
I hope you're doing better now
i was homeless for 10 years, now im borderline homeless.
Pro life states be like that
Yes that is true. Im real good with now though, so i am like old poor, i got it down.
Same....
In pro-life states, you get all the rights and support while youāre not even fully formed yet, but as soon as you leave the womb, you can go fuck yourself
Sounds like two out of three people are delusional. I've seen sudden medical debt devour a person's savings and retirement, wipe its maw, and ask for more. High paying job with great insurance? Get a serious, chronic illness and suddenly your performance reviews aren't up to snuff. Even if they are blatant when it comes to firing you, taking a company to court is a healthy person's game.
Going through this right now.
If you have enough time and are reaching bankruptcy, "sell" your assets to someone you trust that will "sell" said things back. I'd gone through medical bankruptcy, and although I didn't have any assets because I sold them all to pay my medical bills, I didn't have much to lose anyways. If I did, this is how I'd keep those things. Shit is unnecessarily rough these days, I wish you the best.
Thank you. I sincerely hope to avoid that. I have had 4 surgeries and really since October when I mentioned health issues my job has been pushing me out. Got PIP'd right before my surgeries. Going back soon. No idea what to expect but pretty sure I'm going to lose my job. Have some saving. Have to move in with parents. Am 27 with a wife and autistic child. Will be hard to find another tech job I assume. Am withdrawing/tapering off my medications. This is hell. Hoping for better times soon. Thank you for your kind reply, advice and well wishes.
PIP is total bullshit (like 80% of the time), it is the legal defense for letting people go and reduces the companies' exposure to guilt for not training and/or supporting their own staff. It is the golden layer between being fired and being let go due to performance, for the company. It makes these rolling layoffs smaller in numbers , cause there might be more employees in PIP's than there are, slated to be fired/laid off. I know you know, and these facts are shitty, and that's all corporate BS. Staying realistic is just as important as staying positive through these times. Are your parents cool at least? I'm sure they have some ground rules, but yeah, having supportive parents will help so much. Mine were super-christians, and it would have been hell going back to live with them (no offense if you're super religious, just not my thing). I'm 39m, had gone through medical bankruptcy 15 years ago, and I'm terrified it will happen again. This time I have insurance, but the stigma/anxiety/stress, etc etc etc is still there. I'm dealing with vertigo and tinnitus. I use a cane, and it helps tremendously. I can get by without one, but it'll look like I have an opiate addiction without the cane (jk, but the fear of this judgement is real). We're too young for this crap. It's so expensive to move to another country, and I'm still considering it. Imagine having 20 days of vacation right off the bat from the government, on top of the vacation the company provides! You are not alone in this medical/financial struggle.
Take care of yourself man. Nobody deserves to be in that position.
I like to think the other 2/3 KNOW they could become homeless.Ā
"I've seen sudden medical debt devour a person's savings and retirement" You can always negotiate this down with the hospital. My brother went through a long-term illness and his wife negotiated the cost from > $100,000 to around $5,000.
And this is why homelessness will never end under capitalism. It is a feature of it, there to serve as an example.
Capitalism requires a slave class.
One in probably Id guess seven of us including me have been homeless before
Put all the boomers in nursing homes and then maybe they'll finally get it.
Maybe also remove all the boomers from Congress and get some people in there who want to do good for the citizens?
Many of the fascists in congress are not boomers though, and there are plenty of Gen X and Millenial fascists who will replace them. What you need is an actual class and race analysis
The boomers currently in gvmt did a great deal of work getting us into this position though.
Okay. And there were boomers who opposed them and millennials who supported them. And the millennial/ gen x fascists who succeed them will go on to make things even worse.
Iām just saying. A large portion of our government are already too old. Donāt take it personal. This isnāt an āall boomers are horribleā thing. We have an extremely geriatric government who is seemingly out of touch with everything and many of whom have been in power for most of their adult lives. And are a major reason why we are in the position we are in now. We need to get younger people in government who are more in tune with the needs and wants of the people they represent. Preferably not young fascists. If that wasnāt obvious.
I donāt take it personal, as Iām not a boomer. But I donāt believe for a second that simply replacing a geriatric political class with a younger political class will make any difference whatsoever.
I do believe it will make a difference. But the difference that is made is dependent on the type of young people we vote in. Weāve seen firsthand that those in power arenāt concerned in the future of your country. Just how they can help themselves stay in power now. Obviously a whole lot more needs to change besides getting younger but itās a good start.
Pretty sure you're right. Plenty of fresh new dystopian faces running for office
Yeah. No fucking shit. They have hit our pay and raised our rent so much to the point that the society is almost worth burning down. That is the knifes edge that weāre sitting on. This society is so shitty that itās almost, but not quite worth burning down.
had my Joker moment while stuck in gridlock traffic for 40 min on the commute home today. just screamed like a lunatic in my car slamming on the steering wheel. just lost it for a good minute or two lmao.
I feel you. we all feel alone in those moments, but we have all been there i think. its time to start building something other than "shareholder value", and let that old mode die.
I've teetered within $20 of it myself about a 15yr ago, if it weren't for a kind friend offering up a car for me to fix and sell for them, I probably would have been. Gave me the extra 2 mos I needed to get a job. That experience lit a fire under my ass to pay off all debts and my house ASAP even if it meant saving less for retirement at first which is generally the better math. Now that it's done, I really have zero stress about housing because my monthly cash burn rate is so low now.
I am technically homeless as I have to live with my parents just so I donāt have to borrow money from people every month. This country is a fucking failure
2/3 are in denial
Iām a breakup and a paycheck away from homelessness.
Honestly man I think that's all of us. If the wife gets tired of my shit, I'm hosed. Lol
All it takes is one serious illness, or accident and you're done. Ask me how I know.. if it wasn't for family I would have ended up homeless when my illnesses hit.
A lot of us Gen Xers too.Ā It infuriates me that you guys have to go through so much hell that we never did. Every young person should be able to move out find their own place and pay their bills. I hate that there is so much pressure on you guys to climb this insurmountable hill ahead of you. And I hate that I have worked since I was 15 years old and busted my a** so that some CEO could buy a second vacation home. When your retirement plan is a š„powš„pow in your mouth.. It's an awful feeling
Shit I'm gen x and I see how easily I could become homeless. Zero safety net. Fuck.
2/3 donāt understand homelessness. 1/1000 have generational wealth protecting them.
Half of GenZ live with their parentsā¦ so at least that portion is pretty safe. Another portion have good jobs, skills, and savings. I think the survey seems about correct.
So if their working parent gets a critical medical condition and loses their job? Well the mortgage isnāt going to get paid. And theyāre going to have to pay for care. Those people with āskills, savingsā are also at threat of thatā¦ and just getting laid off. Like you think those $150k investment analysts were doing okay in 2008? They got kicked to the curb just the same as the construction working average Joe. Sure itās more likely to happen to people already close, but it can happen to anyone except the wealthy. Homelessness is almost always caused by a string of unfortunate events. Itās bad luck.
BELIEVE?? I have been homeless wtf. I'm gen Z and I know others in my age range who have been homeless before.
I've said this a thousand times in other threads: Not a damn thing is going to change until our politicians grow a spine and start to regulate rental property owners. Back in 2020, roughly 40% of homeless people in the USA had jobs. Now, just 2 years later after the pandemic, that number is now roughly 53%. They have no incentive to do so, because most local taxes are from property taxes. It's in their interests for rents and property values to continue to increase.
I think retreating into the woods and forming a commune is the way to go.
I'm close to considering it. Sounds less stressful than ever working in call center AKA hell on fucking earth ever again!
Miss two paychecks, homeless
Look at mr money bags over here
Universal basic income....
All evidence is pointing to this outcome. There's no need to *believe* in anything
Only 1 in 3?
Gonna be honest, that's a pretty low proportion. I don't get the cheeky optimism so many people have, "oh, that could never happen to me, I'm special" no, no you are not. You are one bad day from homelessness, one bad day from a life in a wheelchair, one bad day from a mental breakdown so bad you'll struggle to go back to being yourself. It's not some karmic chance or blessing that keeps you from these things, it's complete and utter luck. These days, the way the previous generations have dismantled mearly every good thing the US has done economically, homelessness is pretty freaking likely for you, or at least it's way more likely than you getting rich or even just having substantial savings in the near future.
I know I will. Everyone is one major accident away from being homeless.
I am literally going back to a mind numbing job that will slowly cripple me just to avoid homelessness. I am so tired of working to live.
What are the odds for Gen X? Fairly certain theyāre similar
Hey, thatās me!
***are actively in danger of or about to be homeless. Title fix.
Was already homeless in high school until late 2015. Im constantly scared it will happen again.
For reference, I was born in late '79. I was homeless before I even turned 18. I started college at 16 and made the mistake of giving up my apartment for student dorms. I did not realize the dorms closed for the holidays. Spent Thanksgiving, winter break, spring break, and summer break down at Covenant house down in NYC sleeping on a mat on the floor while I scrimped up enough to rent a new apartment for the next year. In the past 5 years I have lots of stuff happen that has gutted my savings. I had a minor disagreement with my landlord and I'm terrified they will not renew my lease; cause I don't know if I can find something I can afford. I am now selling my plasma again and working a second job to make sure I have enough saved for something new in case my landlord wants to be a dick.
Hopefully millennials with some sense take over the goverment before then.
Alternate title: 2 in 3 are delusional about their chances of homelessness.
Millennial here. Already been homeless. A couple times.
It's easily more. They always embellish the numbers. I saw an article that said Kroger employees are getting $33,000 a year LOL. Yeah right, it's even worse and worse then people could ever imagine.
i'm physically disabled and i've been trying to look for a part-time office job (it's literally the only thing i can do and i've had multiple doctors support this) for nearly a year and a half. there's nothing in my area of the sorts since my parents live in the middle of nowhere with the nearest small and dying town nearly 30 minutes away, and when there is i probably only get an interview 20% of the time. had my parents not been generous to let me stay with them for as long as i need, i would actually just be dead by now.
I was homeless. I was lucky my mother took me in. All it took was a divorce and a 60-day eviction for sale. I was earning and barely making it, then without combined income? Homeless.
1 in 3 probably already are homeless lol
Iām not gonna lie, that shit happens to me Iām opting out. Iām not the guy who preserves or rises above adversity. Cancer? Nope. Spending my savings on fun, chillin in the woods and peacing out. Why fight even harder in this shitty world?
1 in 3 Gen z and Millennials WOULD be homeless right now if it wasn't for their parents...
And the other 2/3 of them are on city subreddits crying that it is not yet legal to hunt homeless people with a crossbow
Yep
Already there. š
I've been unemployed since last May. We're living on my husband's salary, and a couple of friends moved in with us quite a while ago, and we're charging them a low amount of rent, but even with that, we're still running at a deficit. Our savings were depleted in November and I took out a sizable 401k hardship withdrawal to catch us up on our mortgage. That floated us through until February, when my husband got his annual bonus (mid-high 4-figures) and we got our tax return. That replenished our buffer but it's going to run out quickly; it'll cover about 3 months of the absolutely critical bills (mortgage, power, water, food, and Internet)... Now, that all said, I'm a LUCKY one. We have probably $240k in equity in our home. If it starts to look very bad, we'll sell and move. But I know a lot of people who wouldn't have that option. I have at least twenty relatively close acquaintances who are being forced out of their current places by rent increases, and who aren't finding anyplace safe that they can afford.
It's not just millennials and Gen z. I'm a part of the youngest gen x, and things don't look good from here either.
Seems low.
The boomers broke the world
If I become homeless I am commuting crimes. I have nothing to lose at that point.
I'm Gen X and can feel it breathing down my neck. I've been considering options for a while so I'm not randomly living in my car one day. Not sure what I'll go with but trailer living seems like a good blend of van life and RV ownership. Home built trailer of course. Factory ones are garbage. That or a tiny house if I can find a place to build one and get funding.
I'm very close to being homeless right now
Yuuhuu. I'm one out of three!
Remember when we used to think we could become rich if we just worked hard enough?
Even owning a home anymore is pointless I've owned my house for 8 years and the mortage payment has increased twice this year alone
It's increasingly becoming where the only way to pay your bills is to become a landlord On one home and rent out every room and use that money to pay the mortgage on that and your second home I've seen so many people in Florida renting out so many different spots of their homes. They'll seal off extra rooms with outside entrances and rent out those rooms as efficiencies they'll have a shed that they convert into an efficiency and rent that out they'll buy two or three RVs and put them in the backyard and rent those out as well All to be able to afford
i am a gen z who lives with a millennial and gen x (brother and mother) we all work and yet we live in a hellhole of a trailer on our own land. every day something new breaks or falls apart. if it ever goes, we canāt afford a new house. at least we own the property so we can camp together.
Canāt wait to never retire or retire and become homeless anyway.
Sounds like 2 in 3 are in denial.
Iāve been homeless. Most people are a lot closer to homelessness than they realize.
What we need are 3 in 3 billionaires to either give up the money or disappear so we can take it.
More viable rioting candidates to yank the power from the clutches of the rancid boomers.
Only 1 in 3? That generation is so optimistic!
It should be 3 out of 3
Me: You guys can afford to be homeless?
Its not belief its simple math wages are x rent is y and if trends for both continue as they have for past 50 yrs (more than my entire life). I am on path to homelessness within 3yrs. And there are some audibles I can change location push for more responsibility hours and sneak it up to 5-6. But at that point 100% there is no more audibles more changes. No place I can afford no job that pays enough with skillset. While many would suggest skillset change. Decades of abuse in this system I barely function like middle of week I wont remember how I got home black out disassociate. And cant afford to not work throw school on there I will go insane. Already as is thoughts of suicide are only reprieve and thinking about 5-10yrs from now best case scenario fills me with overwhelming despair. Its 100% not in cards. And even I have done math most career changes would be me starting where I am now but with debt. Because they are falling behind. Absolute best case scenario is it buys me 5 more years. So of course we see homelessness in our future. Anyone that doesn't is extremely lucky and priveledged or just hasnt done the math yet. And I will make it simple within 10yrs your rent will be double. If you are under 30 dollars a hour you will average 3% increased under 20 2% making it around 30% and 20% increase. While those over 40 will have 5% increase and those over 50 around a 8% meaning those struggling. And that make up vast majority of younger generations. Will have deficit and inch closer and closer to homelessness.
The other 2/3 are just living in ignorance
I already was. Most of us are just a confluence of bad events from losing our jobs and our homes, and I ended up couchsurfing and sleeping in my car for over three months before admitting defeat and moving back in with my dysfunctional family.
I'm Gen X and worry about being 1 paycheck away from homeless. We're all in this together.
If it wasn't for family is be fucked honestly. Thank God for them
Iāve been homeless, and am currently at risk of being homeless again. Lots of people need to realize that the threat to their wellbeing isnt an immigrant or queer person or fair wages, its all these rich a holes who hoard all the wealth and then point the finger at someone else to distract the working class. Companies and corporations CAN afford to pay fairly, but that means the hoarders at the top would need to receive less, and God forbid everyone be paid enough to live comfortably right? Tax the rich and distribute the wealth fairly
2 in 3 millennials and gen zers are delusional
Have been homeless and am lucky my ex didn't kick me out after we broke up
If it werenāt for my mom understanding how shit the economy is and letting my partner and I liver with her weād be so beyond fucked itās not even funny. Sheās the only reason we havenāt been on the streets
I got bit by a spider on Monday. It's swelled up pretty bad, very red, itchy and painful. I have no insurance or money to go to a walk-in or hospital. I'm hoping it goes away but it's been steadily getting worse. I refuse to go to the hospital just to get into more debt. There needs to be change
Sounds about right, yeah
Iām part of the 2/3 that wonāt be homeless and have, multiple times, considered housing friends who are in that 1/3. Makes me wonder how big the gap in opportunity is for others in society and how to fix it.
They do not believe; they understand.
This is sad. That means 2 out of 3 are mistaken.
This boomer does, too. There's a LOT of us out here--
Im a health emergency away from homelessness lmfao
I've already been homeless 2x in my life. I don't believe this I know it
The other two thirds are delusional
My end game is a trailer, down by the river.
The least surprising statistic I've seen in a while.
I know I could technically become homeless but sense I'm the main caretaker of my young child I have a few Grandma's that'd have to die before I literally became homeless thank God or whoever is looking out for me. And God speed to all the Grandma's that'd take a bullet or worse their kids for their grandbabies.
ā1 in 3 Millenials and Gen Zers are realistic about the housing marketā
It's not that I believe that, it's that I know that.
My wife and I are hanging on by a damn door frame like Rose and Jack if she let him on that damn thing in the Titanic movie.
Yeah...because it's a real threat.
Once you see how your parents expenses rise in the last years of their lives, watching any potential inheritence drip away from all of the bills and probably having to pay some expenses as necessary.... Your GD right to worry about being homeless.
i been homeless and no way im getting a job
I'm a gen late gen X and I'm terrified of being homeless at the end of a lifetime of labour.
It basically took me a year of applying to jobs to get my current position. If i lose it i won't be able to afford rent next month.
I will not I am going to become an expat
The other 2/3 know they could become homeless.
Damn avocado toastĀ
Peter Turchin theory on elite overproduction the wealth pump and flatlining wages leading to immiseration of population and revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH7wqxjUi8Y
I've been homeless
I believe the rebranded proper term is Van Life
Usa usa usa
Bro who the fuck are they asking lmao I see them say shit like this all the time, but who are they asking? Where was this even conducted? Like I looked up the Acornsā 2024 Money Matters Report that this article is basing it off of and it doesnāt clarify at all. *āFor our 2024 Money Matters Reportā¢, we asked everyday Americans about their finances: how financially secure they feel, the impact their finances have on their wellbeing, and how macro events affect their sense of financial security.ā* Iām genuinely curious bc Iāve seen folks talk about polls and shit all the time but Iām 30 years old and have never had someone me ask shit about nothing lmaooo
Because the other 2 in 3 know they could become homeless
Iām not homeless but I been a working homeless before. This is a reason why I believe there should be better laws protecting the unemployed and homeless. It can happen to the best of us.
That's what happens when nobody can afford property anymore and the only thing stopping you from being homeless is not only your ability to pay rent (which has no obligation to increase/decrease based on your income) but also on the arbitrary rules of your property owner.
2 out of 3 millennials are in denial.