@russell_nm@USATODAY I get you yourself have four kids, but its not fair to demand they do the same. Gen Z adults are making entry level salaries in a job market increasingly utilizing AI-based hiring practices. Home ownership for many is unattainable.
@russell_nm@USATODAY Maybe the cost of childcare often now exceeding rent or mortgage payments is turning off Gen Z? 🤔 Maybe we need to look at the bigger picture and beyond our household to really understand things?
@russell_nm@USATODAY Maybe Gen Z and Millenials didn’t kill the housing industry? Maybe home prices climbing to an average of 390k today vs. 115k in 1995 (a 339% increase) while average wages have only increased by 182% in that same time span is a factor? 🤔
@russell_nm@USATODAY The mentality that one needs to grow up and do all these boring (and frankly exhausting) things is not a healthy one. You are projecting your lifestyle on an entire generation and as a millenial who saw my generation blamed for every dumb thing we didn’t buy…
@russell_nm@USATODAY We would do well to be more empathetic to a group different than us than to repeat the tradition of “Millenials are Killing Applebees” generational blame. If it brings one joy, who honestly cares?
@russell_nm@USATODAY … have kids because you have them isunfair to them. It is not their responsibility to have kids. It is not their job to go into debt buying a home. They have free will and if they’d rather spend their time riding Space Mountain than attending soccer practice that is their right.
@russell_nm@USATODAY … or your Mom buying tickets to a Styx concert. Everyone has nostalgia. Every day we’re hit with some new form of chaos in the news as everything continues to go up in price. How one chooses to escape is their prerogative, but blaming the entirety of Gen Z for not rushing to…
@russell_nm@USATODAY Why is a President in office who campaigned on a nostalgic slogan of “Make America Great Again”? Maybe we as a society are forever tied to that nostalgia, be it a trip to Disney to remember our childhood, a millenial paying hundreds to see the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere…
@russell_nm@USATODAY Their parents did the exact same thing? Why do you think we got Grease in 1978 and Back to the Future in 1985? For that nostalgic longing and romanticising of the 1950’s by Gen X and Baby Boomers.
@russell_nm@USATODAY If they choose not to bring kids into this hellscape we all find ourselves waking up to every morning, who can honestly blame them? Is it so awful that they cherish the only time in their lives they remember happiness?
@russell_nm@USATODAY … so for them to long for a brand that makes them feel nostalgic about their childhood and safe is completely fair. They are constantly told how the world is falling apart and its going to be their job to fix it.
@russell_nm@USATODAY Many missed key formative HS moments due to the COVID pandemic. Several have had to navigate their entire lives with their worth being decided through social media presence. They have also seen some of the darkest most divisive politics in generations…