@siddocode once you start treading water, you figure out that that’s what all this is. treading water. and sometimes, you can float on your back for a bit.
you’ll be okay.
@mrmikeMTL I feel like it’s the industry itself that’s imploded, and will only spread thinner. They hedged on a lot of things that just don’t really appeal anymore, microtransactions being a huge one. factor in digitisation, accessibility and ai; gets bleaker the more you think about it.
My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43.
I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000.
He said "so save up."
I said the down payment alone is $82,000.
He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces."
I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month.
He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet.
Then he said something I didn't expect.
"I put down $3,200 on our first place. I had it saved in eight months working at the plant."
Then he just sat there for a second.
"I always thought you kids were exaggerating."
That's it. That's the whole conversation.
He wasn't being cruel. He genuinely had no idea. Nobody ever showed him the number.
Most of them aren't defending the system. They just never looked at it.