But there's some inconvenient truths that will rub a lot of people the wrong way. The Neo-con boot-straps ideology is unfortunately correct in a lot of ways. I saw it undergrad and I see it in a lot of answers on this very board. The very idea of working and saving money is scoffed at if it isn't enough to fund a vacation to the South of France like the 1% do. People aren't upset at the 1%. They are upset that they aren't the 1%. That's a big difference and makes a lot of the complaints disingenuous. You have people scoffing at the very idea of moving away to another city that they can afford because their "culture" is tied up into an area.
The inconvenient truth is something like gentrification isn't new. People publicly understanding that they failed to secure their future is new. I don't make 200K a year. But I do have a nice 401k that I contribute to, a nice Roth and other investments.(I'm still learning) I don't vacation on the Venetian Islands and I won't be at the World Cup in Brazil, but I do have enough money to travel to decent places once a year, work permitting. I won't be rich or on the forbes list but I will have around a million dollarscome retirement. I took out student loans but I found a job that paid for them. I alluded to this plenty of times. Put it this way, most of you guys scoff at the job I do because it's not glamorous or attractive. But guess? All my boys who graduated college with loans are
...They struggle..I researched before graduating college this job and that what my potential earnings post grad and the debt I accrued wasn't favorable for my future. I sacrificed. I sacrificed potentially moving to the city I wanted to. I sacrificed my free time and potentially my health. It was a risk, but worth the reward to me. Sacrifice to people of this generation is nonexistent. Most of the pain is self inflicted so it really makes me hard to sympathize. I work out for a living, I
good, got a decent crib
bout to buy a rental property in 2015..I'm not balling. I'm not a flashy dude. I don't drive a M series. I got a Tacoma pickup(paid for) and a Cadillac XTS(2012)
that's my one indulgence. I dress moderately and I live within my means. For most people in this generation this is
..I spend too much time online, but I'm happy.
People my age(mid 20-late 20's) are pretty stupid. Like so many people in undergrad payed absolutely no attention to what the future held for them. I knew by junior year if I didn't do what I'm doing I'd be fukked and struggling in a one bedroom apartment, 40K worth of a debt, coupled with being an introvertI'd be bytchless. Some decisions in life can propel you to success and sometimes indecision can cripple you. A lot of people in this age group are lost souls and have pretty unrealistic views on life. Ah well
It's true a lot of kids these days don't plan well for the future, but that's the nature of kids in any generation. Y'all gotta realize that because you post your own personal success stories (fake or not) it doesn't mean that everyone else in the country is capable of doing that.
Everyone else is not going to have the same opportunities under the same circumstances as you, and it's not always from a lack of trying. The wealth inequality levels in this country are among the highest in history before the great depression, student loan debt is in the trillions (higher than credit card debt), and all that has nothing to do with lazy college kids who made bad decisions.
Man I ain't no damned venture capitalist. All the stories I tell on here happen to real people I either know or me myself. ..I am in the market for a Lexus. 2017 
