Usually I’d be with you, except for the fact that I believe where a lotta younger generations go wrong is viewing work as “soul crushing”.
Sure it can be. But it’s also necessary. And with as many options as we have these days to start businesses and thrive, the opportunities are there.
Also consider this: I think many in this generation are FAR too materialistic. Depending on where you live and how you live…you don’t need $100,000 to live well.
You might not be able to DoorDash everyday. Or buy $200 weaves, $400 Jordans, a new car, ect. But you can set a budget and stick to it and learn to live within your means.
We wasting too many opportunities with almost learned helplessness. I’m also concerned about people that complain about student loan debt.
But do you know how much money goes back in the pot each year b/c kids don’t even apply for scholarships and opportunities? There’s so many ways to pay for education without huge amounts of student loan debt. Any debt I accrued in my career came from traveling and spending frivolously b/c my education was paid for.
But you are right about those values being instilled…which is why I’m hypercritical of our school systems. We have all the young minds in our nation from the ages of 5-18. 180 days, 5 days a week, 8 hrs a day.
That’s a LOT of time to spend away from your family learning absolutely NO marketable skills to prepare you for life after graduation.
Every damn kid in this sorry country should graduate with some type of certification in a trade if they don’t have acceptance to a university AND funding.
A lot of what made me successful came from my school experiences and training. And a lot of those experiences are absent for a lotta kids these days and parents are too overworked to pick up where schools leave off.
But the people I'm speaking on don't do any of this and are still "behind".
That is the issue.
A lot of debt is relative.
I'm $25k in debt and it hurts just as much as someone with $100k in debt.
Both of us are in the hole, struggling to pay it while our landlord shrugs and raise the rent $100-$500 higher.
EDIT: Wanted to add, no one helped me with trying to figure out college and I made sure to make a small enough mistake that I could at least kind of pay for. But I digress.
Understand, folks aren't dumb.
They look outside and realize:
They may never own a house.
They will never see social security (which takes plenty of money out of your check).
They see their friends flying high, then crashing and burning from one medical emergency.
They watched their parents lose everything from the 08 financial crisis.
They watched folks come OUT OF retirement because their pensions/retirement wasn't enough.
Corporations crush their family members with terrible working conditions.
I could go on. Why would folks want to willing go out and slave away?
For what purpose? What is the endgame? Ask these kids these questions, you'll get the same answers I did.
They don't see the point when looking out at the world today.
I don't blame them either.
not a good sign brehs and brehettes. Need my brehrtted to start taking some responsibility too though… seen way more family members from middle and upper middle class backgrounds winding up as single moms after being dudes’ 3rd or 4th baby mama. Meanwhile their brothers & cousins at the same age are single or dating out.
