What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

[Crepitus]

What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?​

 

[Mac-7]

The vast majority of college graduates get worthwhile degrees.
Most major in business, healthcare, education, STEM

Then tell the kids to stop complaining

 

[initforme]

Bad shack-ups are no better

Agreed. That's a reason why less people are marrying. They see so many unhappy relationships and figure why go through that? For what reason?

 

[rightwinger]

Then tell the kids to stop complaining

They need to complain about the cost of a degree and crappy starting salaries

 

[1srelluc]

So you think that all young people must get married and have kids?

Must? No, but it's a good idea.....That's how they find out about responsibility.

I know leftists hate that word but it's not going away.

Then again if they have strong leftist tendencies then I would not complain if they availed themselves of the utility of abortion.

 

[Mac-7]

They need to complain about the cost of a degree and crappy starting salaries

The cost of a degree certainly

 

[initforme]

Must? No, but it's a good idea.....That's how they find out about responsibility.

I know leftists hate that word but it's not going away.

Then again if they have strong leftist tendencies then I would not complain if they availed themselves of the utility of abortion.

So o e should have kids so they become responsible? Ummmmm ok but that's not a reason to have kids and get married. What if one is working full time, saving, investing, and remaining single with no kids? Is that not being responsible?

 

[Moonglow]

I think todays generation has gotten a bad deal

When I graduated HS 50 years ago, you could go from HS and get a job where you could afford an apartment (less than $200 ), buy a car and support yourself.
When I graduated college four years later, I was two years away from buying a house and getting married.

Todays generation has no options of self sufficiency after HS. Those who graduate college face crippling debt, low paying jobs and apartments above $1500 a month. A house starting at $500,000 plus is not in their plans.

Mom and Dad are their only options

I earned ten bucks an hour in the 1980s, twenty in the 1990s, and then 60-70k from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. That amount today ain't worth shit even before the pandemic that caused inflation.

 

[Moonglow]

Someone with just a HS Diploma can get a job

But they cannot get a career that will provide long term employment, benefits, retirement plan

Sure they can.

 

[Zincwarrior]

MSN

Americans in their 30s have never looked less like grown-ups.

Amid steep declines in homeownership, marriage and birth rates, economists have long been warning that young people are struggling to meet the milestones of adulthood. Although some 30-somethings are consciously choosing a less traditional path, many say these goals are simply out of reach.

"It feels like the instructions for how to live a good life don't apply anymore," says 38-year-old Cody Harding, who is single and lives with three roommates in Brooklyn. "And nobody has updated them."

Now, as a mix of social and economic factors holds back an entire generation, what researchers once called a lag is starting to look more like a permanent state of arrested development.

"We're moving from later to never," says Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Boys and Men. He notes that the longer people take to launch into a more conventional adulthood, the less likely they are to do it at all.

A third of today's young adults will never marry, projects conservative think tank the Institute for Family Studies, compared to less than a fifth of those born in previous decades. The share of childless adults under 50 who say they are unlikely to ever have kids, meanwhile, rose 10 percentage points between 2018 and 2023, from 37% to 47%, according to Pew Research Center.

Leftists destroyed the nuclear family.

Globalists offshored many good jobs.

Kids were railroaded into going to college for worthless degrees.

Unchecked illegal immigration and Corporate Oligarchy has combined to drive housing prices to insane levels.

That’s a start.

That said:

The current crop of them I blame on the parents half-raising them. You need to get your fucking kids out of the house so they can learn to function on their own. Yeah. you can give them a hand from time to time, but an uncomfortable life when starting out is good for them.

Your 20's should be kind of hard, that's when you learn how to function as an adult. I know that it was a damn steep learning curve for me with a young family to support and keep a roof over their heads.

The first thing I saved-up for was for a used chest freezer so I could fill it with meat, fish, and things you could freeze from the garden.

They become BOOMERS.

 

[Moonglow]

I see people of all ages doing the same old thing we have always done, survive.

 

[1srelluc]

What if one is working full time, saving, investing, and remaining single with no kids? Is that not being responsible?

Thing is, it has become very noticeable that is not the case with the generation in question.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Thing is, it has become very noticeable that is not the case with the generation in question.

I agree its the BOOMERS THAT STOLE EVERYTHING .

 

[1srelluc]

I agree its the BOOMERS THAT STOLE EVERYTHING .

I got mine, that's for sure.

At least my grandkids will never see the inside of a public school as long as I am alive.....That's my idea of "helping".

 

[rightwinger]

Thing is, it has become very noticeable that is not the case with the generation in question.

I think it is wrong to characterize a whole generation as lazy

My generation was long haired, dirty hippies who hated work, smoked grass and listened to that God Awful Rock Music

We turned out OK

 

[initforme]

I got mine, that's for sure.

At least my grandkids will never see the inside of a public school as long as I am alive.....That's my idea of "helping".

The old model of marriage and kids in one's 20s is slowly being rejected by young people that want something else in life. The nation can't do a thing about it. It's not going to stop anytime soon.

 

[initforme]

I look at my granddaughter. Just turned 30. A full time pharmacist. Her husband, 32, an engineer. Making alot of money. Nice big house, 3 nice vacations per year. As they have alot of paid time off. 2 pampered dogs. No kids they don't want them. They want to focus on their careers. That's called being responsible in every way.

 

[Kruska]

The key is getting a worthwhile degree instead of something useless and low paying

You don't need a degree to run a very PROFITABLE plumber business.

 

[Mac-7]

You don't need a degree to run a very PROFITABLE plumber business.

I agree

There no shame in being a good tradesman

 

[Kruska]

I think it is wrong to characterize a whole generation as lazy

My generation was long haired, dirty hippies who hated work, smoked grass and listened to that God Awful Rock Music

Not your entire generation , but some "factually a minority" used to display these features, aside from listening to great Rock music.

We turned out OK

Nah, not them dreamers, punks and lazy dolts - most of them ended up as Lefty/Libs - living on societies expenses and manipulating laws so that they can continue to enjoy their personal lifestyle.