My generation and the boomers both need to stop measuring Gen Z's 20s against ours.
When I was 23 I had an apartment in West Hollywood for $600 a month.
That exact same apartment goes for $3,500 today.
Back then a burger at a proper sit-down restaurant ran you $6 to $8. Now it's over $20, and then they hit you with a $4 service fee on top.
Rent, gas, groceries, healthcare, run the numbers and they don't even live in the same universe.
A 23-year-old hustling in 1998 and a 23-year-old hustling now are not playing the same game. Different country. Different economy. Different life.
So drop the "we all had it just as hard" line. It's not true. Check the math before you open your mouth.
The median family income in the U.S. has gone from $10K in 1971 to $106k today, an increase of 10x.
However, the median cost of a house has gone from $25K to $445k, an increase of 17x.
And the median cost of a car has gone from $3.6K to $50k, an increase of 14x.
The median cost of college has gone from $2.9k a year to $45k, an increase of 16x.
And the average cost of healthcare per person has gone from $350 to $14.6k, an increase of 42x.
THE AVERAGE PERSON IS WORSE OFF TODAY THAN IN 1971.
Last week four black teens jumped and murdered a 15 year-old White kid and there was silence from the media.
Then a group of White college girls make monkey noises on a doorbell and it’s National breaking news
Almost everyone in their late 20s and 30s is having a quarter-life crisis because the previous generation wrecked the economy, priced us out of adulthood, and now treats us like failures for not owning a house or car that once cost a few years’ wages, not a lifetime of debt.
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The USA would have a much higher standard of living if we only had 200 million people instead of 350 million.
There is not a single thing that has improved by importing 100 million people from the 3rd world and letting most of them get on welfare, food stamps and Medicaid.
🚨 SILENCE: Austin Payne was a 15-year-old white boy from Albany, Georgia. His mom found him dead inside an abandoned apartment after tracking his phone there.
He called her on Halloween night to say he had been SHOT and needed help.
Police have charged three black teenagers, ages 15 and 16, and a 22-year-old black man, Detravion Parker, with MURDER.
The national media has barely said a word.
Imagine if the races were reversed. It would be wall-to-wall coverage for weeks, and we all know it.
Austin deserves justice, and his name deserves to be said.