ajackson17
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You got to do what you gotta do to make it bruh
Do us black youth have the choice to live on our own in this generation? I'm from Toronto and most ppl my age (~23) that I know live at home w/ parents. This generation is the 1st generation of immigrants, parents migrated to Canada from the Caribbean or Africa. So a lot of our parents started in apartments or low income area but they've saved up enough money to buy a house in Toronto or out in the surrounding suburbs for the family. The thing is, usually they have regular jobs and are just making ends meet, so our generation who go to college/uni and get a job or are working; money goes in to help pay the bills. This puts u in a weird position though because your basically stuck at home. You don't make enough to help your parents and live on your own supporting yourself. This shyt has been bothering me because your "suppose" to have your own place @ a certain age but your tied in helping your fam... It's a lot of pressure cuz you know how black folks are, "lolz, you at your moms house" and the only reason they can do that most of the time is if their parents have money or their parents live in the hood and they moved out so they have no ties. If I was Asian or sum shyt it would be no shame, I see them living at home stacking up prolly but some money up and get a BMW m3 and their chillin. Anyone in this same position? What will you do?
exactly. These days, its practically the norm. Any of the older heads living in cheap areas have no Idea what they talking about. This ain't the 70s where you can be on ya own and make good money. In our generation, there are plenty of college grads that are broke as shyt. Don't let these broke ass older nikkas talk down on any of you. They have no idea what $4 gas is like, where food prices are outrageous, and your elusive college degree is worthless during your 20's
Real talk most foreign parents don't want you to leave till you're marred regardless of financial situation
In the 90s, gas was under a dollar a gallon. Under 20 years later, it tripled, if not quadrupled in some places. Did wages? Food prices shot up. Rent shot up faster than salaries... and educational requirements to get a job shot up. You need a degree and years of experience to get a decent job or you have to know someone. "Back in the day" a man could work a factory job and have enough money for himself and to raise a family to where the wife didn't have to work. Now, the husband and wife both need to be college educated and working in some capacity if you want to have a family and have some savings. Let's not throw in student loans on top of the equation. Any hope of us receiving social security despite contributing to the system? I don't think so. The advent of 'globalizationi' will also mean that companies will quickly ship any job they can to cheaper places of labor, so you have that downward force on workers' wages. Baby boomer generation pretty much threw the younger generation over the edge of the ship and they attribute a lot of it to the younger generation being 'lazy' or 'not working as hard as I did back in the day.'
I gotta help my parents too, were east euro immigrants in sauga. They just retired (my dads broken from busting his ass at a factory) don't have shyt for savings and they were 40 when we immigrated so they barely get enough money to pay the bills. It's just wut we gotta do. Taking care of your fam n staying at home ain't shameful in my culture, the canadians/americans that just toss their fam in the bushes are shameful. I got no respect for them so I don't give a fukk wut those idiots think. We building while those goofs throw money away for rent to scrape by, they're not ahead of u.
That's what's so crazy about student loans. They are harder to go bankrupt on than normal debt... and yet we have schools and parents pushing students with reckless abandon right towards college without any consideration for the cost/benefit ratio. Parents seem to have this notion of, "It doesn't matter how much it costs. As long as you get that piece of paper, everything will take care of itself." It doesn't quite work that way when a young man or woman exits with $50,000 in loans and is forced to work at some low wage job he or she could have gotten without a degree because there are no openings. As much as I feel sorry for our generation, I REALLY feel for the younger generation who is going through college and will have to compete even for those minimum wage jobs.
If you want to know where all the money went, just look at upper management of any large corporation. They are being compensated hundreds of times more than the average worker. What's amazing is that Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony, one of the largest electronics/entertainment conglomerates in the world, only made a salary of $1.6 million. In America, the disconnect between worker and upper management is mind-boggling. It's funny how so many Americans easily believe the lie that the company just can't pay any raises this year, but somehow they can pay a CEO millions of dollars in bonuses alone. We're pretty much in another era of robber barons.
Real shyt. In my parents generation, good jobs were abundant. Gas was cheap. And rent and home prices were low. Now everything is astronomical. It's hard as hell to live on ur own. Even if u have a decent job and education.
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