What retirement? I am Gen X and dont have that. But I do have shit ton of possessions. Luckily not in the position to have sell them off.
Also bullshit where these Gen Z parents. My Gen Z sons aren't suffering this fate. So far my middle son just turn 18 an adulting okay. Yeah still lives at home which sucks, by his age I had a one bedroom apartment. But he is savimg for college and will move out once he has 10k saved up.
It's tougher but with good parenting and knowing the pit falls in life I can guide him to success even in this hell hole.
Doesn't have to be this way, but until we rise and demand better nothing going change. So I will do what I got to do for him succeed. It's up to us Gen X and millenniums to stand up for Gen Z. Its a class war folks need to fight like it is.
If your son didn't have you to depend on for financial and emotional support, they would be homeless through no fault of their own, like everyone else who doesn't have that kind of support system.
They aren't "adulting" if they can't live independently.
And pretending like this situation is fine is part of why we have let it get so bad in the first place.
I had zero support system when I moved out on my own and yes I survived, but look at the cost of things and guess what it isn't fucking inflation Its fucking greed!
My first place was a 2 bedroom duplex that cost me 300 a month. Not best neighborhood but in 1997 not bad. Fast forward 2001 working at Walmart had a one bedroom apartment for 360 a month. Go look that same apartment today. Just looked it up fucking 958 for same place. That place with inflation should be no more then 600. How the fuck do they expect anyone to afford that at today wages?
So yes he is adulting best he can. But promise he wont be 21 still living at home. Shit I hear kids older then that are. Some 25 year olds with college degrees are trap at home.
Well for Athens Texas that is way out of reach. Were taking small town here with no industry. They have a community college or did when I live there. But it was a town of old money that refused to let the place grow.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, what you’re saying is pretty much what everyone else is.
You’re acknowledging that corporate greed and class warfare is the problem. You’re using your position as a parent in a half decent financial situation to help your kids where you can. You’re not wrong.
You’re not blaming gen Z at all but I fear without punctuation people might be misinterpreting. Every last bit of collective effort helps.
Probably people upset that I am able to provide and help my kid succeed when a lot of them can't support themselves. It sucks we shouldn't be fighting one other. Instead we should be joining forces and helping one another succeed. We need community now more than ever
Your god damn generation voted for MAGA, and keep supporting his actions. Physically correct your mistakes, you absolute ignorant shithead. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. FIX YOUR MISTAKE. STOP CONNECTING ONLINE, THERE’S A FASCIST TAKING YOUR SHIT. GIVE A SHIT OR FUCK OFF.
I voted for Harris and I am what you call a Bernie bro since I voted for him twice and knock doors for him and donated money I didn't have to him. Also I consider myself left of Sanders. I don't believe you can work within the capitalist system and do what Bernie wants. He does.
I can't suspend my belief with you, if you already confessed your parents and yourself are long time Democrats that didn't even whiff Trump and his Nazis in the 80s, had reelected him after his conviction of felonies.
Next you're going to tell me your parents didn't write a big C on my apartment applications either.
My parents don't own apartments and don't know what the letter C means. But not going engage with you anymore. Apparently you're hell bent on blaming me for all your issues. Maybe go talk to your parents since they are just as much if not more to blame.
For me I know my parents are shit and pulled the ladder up from behind them. And I have and can loath it and harp on it. But it changes nothing. All I can do is be a better parent and person then them. And do my best to make it through this hell.
How the fuck do you aspect me to push down a ladder that was pullrd up away from me. Dude we are on the same boat. I might not be exactly where you are, but I have no way to give you the ladder.
How old are you? Because you call me grandpa when I am only 45. With no grandkids yet.
yeesh you can't even do math. I dunno if I șould pity you, or actually empathize you fucked Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen α. Let me guess,
are you going to downvote this comment, or sell your possessions?