One of the most significant issues facing this generation is the wealth gap between them and baby boomers. According to a recent report from the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank New America, the…
Housing costs, food, and access to medical care seem like much bigger factors affecting quality-of-life. And we could go on: childcare costs, declining social safety net, rise in not only home purchase costs but also renting as well, enormous rise in cost of higher education, the switch to fascism, all of this would naively seem to me to contribute far more to life than a mere paycheck in the moment, especially if there is lower stability to turn that paycheck into actual living.
The article cuts off fairly quickly though so if it talked about it down below that, I couldn’t read it.
I think is an idiom that people don’t understand. It’s all of our collective society that people have to grow and adapt for within and the village is burning and broken. It’s not just the pay but for boomers they decided that’s all there was to life and now the rest of it decays when you can buy it back.
Yeah we definitely make less but also have to buy more and somehow it’s all still worse for it.
Only 20% - that seems really low?
Housing costs, food, and access to medical care seem like much bigger factors affecting quality-of-life. And we could go on: childcare costs, declining social safety net, rise in not only home purchase costs but also renting as well, enormous rise in cost of higher education, the switch to fascism, all of this would naively seem to me to contribute far more to life than a mere paycheck in the moment, especially if there is lower stability to turn that paycheck into actual living.
The article cuts off fairly quickly though so if it talked about it down below that, I couldn’t read it.
“It takes a village…”
I think is an idiom that people don’t understand. It’s all of our collective society that people have to grow and adapt for within and the village is burning and broken. It’s not just the pay but for boomers they decided that’s all there was to life and now the rest of it decays when you can buy it back.
Yeah we definitely make less but also have to buy more and somehow it’s all still worse for it.