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Because things that previously were general "adulting" functions have been hypercommodified and we're left having to navigate the world with less money, less time, and less idea of what's real and what's a scam.
This isn't a generational issue, it's fucking capitalism.
We also get to do our adulting with the knowledge that almost everything we do is slowly cooking the environment.
Thank you! I get so tired of the generational generalizations. And you're right, it's getting more difficult for working people of all ages to navigate this late stage capitalism shit show.
Pushes glasses up nose: Uh, late stage capitalism, to be clear.
Please. As if this isn't the goal for capitalists. It's their wet dream.
Insert Scooby Doo meme unmasking capitalism.
Yeah no shit. They feel that way because it is that way. You don't need polls for this information. It's economics. "Perceived" or not, it is actually, literally harder for millenials and younger adults to achieve the same level of financial stability as their parents, full stop. That's not a matter of feeling or perception. That's the declining real value of money. Inflation, greedflation, economic contraction at key life milestones, wealth inequality, lower indicators for health, and on and on. Across every metric I can think of off the top of my head, millenials and the next generations perform worse than previous generations due to circumstances entirely beyond their control (and largely the result of the prior generations, including dead hand control and policies directly adversarial to young adults' accumulation of wealth). For many young adults, the best financial windfall they'll ever experience will be when their more affluent parents die, and no active measure they can take on their own behalfs will meaningfully change it.
The ruling class should be terrified of them.
The ruling class should be terrified of them.
Well, this time around they've got technology. They've got the Internet.
And they've learned from past attempts, and I believe they have nearly perfected their ideal society (which is really just feudalism again). Which includes exposing people to enough lies and propaganda that they will actively advocate against policies that would help "correct" things, and in favor of policies that worsen and perpetuate their (and their children's) own situation.
At least here in the US, we're far too comfortable with our Real Housewives, and our XBoxes to ever take real action beyond just voting. I'm including myself in this so don't think I'm being high and mighty.
Gee, it's almost as though paying 2½ times more for an education and 3 times more for a house on basically the same wage is hard. This is not rocket science. It's basic arithmetic
That's a terrible headline that puts the blame on them instead of the people who made the world they have to live in...
Gee whiz, I wonder who runs the company's putting shit like this out there? Couldn't be...
The article keeps mentioning a “glimmer of hope” but that glimmer is just surviving or getting married on schedule.
I don’t know what they’re smoking.
That glimmer of hope is the lure of the anglerfish, waiting to devour the naive millennial.
Gen Z and millennial adults are having a hard time achieving the same milestones their parents did when they first ventured out into the workforce, such as finding a job, getting promoted or buying a house.
Ha! What a joke of an article. The financial and environmental and social concerns today are wildly different. Many CAN'T do what their parents or grandparents did. It's not a one to one comparison.
Read 'Hell's Angels' by Hunter Thompson. He has a chapter on the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist. A part-time waitress could support herself and her musician boy friend, and six months as a Union stevedore would keep an Angel on the road for two years.
It's tragic what capitalism has done to the middle class in this country, and that includes brainwashing us into accepting it, if not directly advocating for it.
I say this all the time.
Before Nixon took office, 'middle class' was one job supporting a family of four. That's with a house, a car, and money to send the kids to college. In those days, $1 million was a giant fortune. By the time Bush Sr. left office 'middle class' was two incomes to support the family and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
It's a lot more palatable to adult, when your actions have a reasonable chance to lead you to a better life situation.
I don't think any of that is "adulting."
As a parent of a 17yo, adulting is:
I’m stealing this list. And I’m a 52 yo man.
I'm still fucked regardless of definition. I can barely get through the work day even without substantial caffeine, even with 3 years off caffeine and just being miserable I still had bloody diarrhea and back pain that would come and go with seemingly no explanation. Having a camera snake through me didn't reveal anything. Then whenever I don't have anything else fucking me up it's migraines with aura that last as long as a week and a half and everyone is mad at me when I am finally able to get to work without either killing someone with my car, or getting run over with my bike.
adulting
Please don't
This article is a really clever bait and switch. It talks extensively about how resilient and optimistic Gen Z is. Which is unfortunate for me: I wanted an article explaining how I can get better at adulting.
0/0%, just throw my corpse in the work dumpster when I die.
We're better at a lot of different stuff than they ever were. I just don't like buying car insurance by phone.