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The lazy, entitled millennials trope just doesn’t hold up. Whoopi in hot water again... (www.msnbc.com)
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Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I once thought that if i could ever make six figures, I'd be set for life. I could have anything i wanted. Now i make multiple times that number and i can still barely afford a house that's big enough for my family of 3. I'm house poor and an emergency could bankrupt me in an instant. I'm in the top like 0.1% of income earners. What the fuck?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha, not quite making as much as you, but I'm doing significantly better than the average person and saving is just impossible. Groceries, energy and basically every other inelastic good just crept up to take up an increasingly big slice of the budget. It's all shit you can't easily cut.

    Then you hear conservatives talk about the fertility rate, and young people not having kids and you just think to yourself: "I can't afford to add kids to a family, we're barely getting by as it is.". The family values people don't give a shit about the economics of having one.

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  • [+] -21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If you make >$200,000/year and still struggle to find housing, you're the problem. It's sad how people like you feel they need more money when so many others, somehow, get by with significantly less. Why should you get it before them?

    Probably because you feel entitled to live on the West Coast. You just want to ignore supply and demand.

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