Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline
there’s no reason someone working full time should still need:
roommates
help from parents
multiple side hustles
or a cosigner
just to afford a basic apartment in the same city they work in.
at that point the economy isn’t “tough.”
it’s broken.
My dad retired at 59
I will not
He had a pension. I have a 401k I can barely fund.
He bought his house at 28.
I can't touch a down payment at 30.
He paid $90 a month for health insurance. I pay $430.
At dinner he told me I need to be smarter with money.
I nodded.
Didn't tell him his entire life was built on an economy that no longer exists.
Didn't tell him my generation is paying for his Social Security while ours gets gutted.
Didn't tell him the ladder he climbed got pulled up right after him.
Just passed the potatoes.
Make it make sense
I feel like.. I just think if I were about to jump out of a window and I got just slammed by 2 feet back 5 feet into my apartment it would make me angry enough to be alive from that point forward