We live in an age of literal miracles. Thinking rocks, floating metal, what amounts to telepathy, machines roaming the countryside that dwarf giants, bodies being reshaped and redrawn, pandemics being fought back after a year or two. There really need to be some hard questions asked about why exactly a kid can't expect to move in to their own a home at 20.
I'm not saying there are easy answers. Maybe the world is just so complicated that a normal 20 year old can't make a meaningful contribution any more. But it is worth at least talking form time to time about why it is so hard to for young people to be independent. What exactly is the deal they are being offered here?
?? Please elaborate.
Ask foreigners: They don't have parent's insurance or homes, yet are expected to survive without being able to take jobs that are reserved for Americans only. Americans have it easy.
They're all pretty mundane because humans can get used to anything given a few months. But the things we have these days are all crazy.
And exactly what jobs are reserved for Americans? Only ones I know of are DoD or security clearance.
Although it is illegal to discriminate based on country of origin, companies do it all the time - at the least, they will outright reject a candidate based on this criteria and at the worst, they string them along on years of abuse/slavery through an H1B and lower salary compared to Americans.
Nobody wants to do extra paper-work and run through the hassle (laws) of hiring a foreigner if the risk is higher than hiring an American - if they do, they better get a better deal.
Ask HR, STEM international students, someone on H1B. There are lucky ones, especially CS majors, but the majority is abused by the system due to the power imbalance. This is unknown to the average American, you don't know how much the balance has been tilted in your favor from the start.
> The days of showing up to the border with the close on your back and $50 in your pocket are long over.
You seem blind to the realities. Americans complain too much because they can, millions of people are just happy to have a way to survive. I did not even touch upon illegal immigrants who live in the shadows/fear, working quietly for a better future...
Remember tech wanted to increase the quota for H1Bs? It was a pro-immigration marketing stunt - because it is cheaper for them to abuse more workers.
Progressives/liberals fight for minorities' rights, but who cares about immigrants, even if they are the backbone of your economy? Tech doesn't care, they profit from it. Tech (indeed, American enterprise) has always been a marketing show for the rich.
Side note: Elon's hack in to the US as a Canadian > Aware it would be easier to enter the United States from Canada,[23] Musk applied for a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
https://medium.com/p/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale-4fecf809581...
Btw, I don't blame Americans on this, they might actually be the victim of their own creation - the tech industry has been brainwashing the American public for the last decade.
Note: Your policies also affect the entire world due to your power stance internationally.
You can, just not a nice one in a major city. Given the choice between my parent's house and a small condo, house is a lot nicer.
Given the options, it will never be the case that a 20 year old can have the same standard of living as what they grew up with right away. You choices are to lower your standard of living as you just aren't as valuable economically or stay put.
People are not valued anymore, the current generation only seeks "quick money".
Ex: 4HWW, Robinhood, FIRE, crypto, social media, (even startups) etc. promote this mentality and are either responses or symptoms of this shift.
https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e
Middle class America had it good after world war 2 until capital and the rest of the world caught up.
The standard of middle class consumption has soared.
Not everybody has parents that they can tolerate.
It's a failure of reproduction of the middle class, though. When you're born rich, it's easy to die rich (without being adventurously stupid), when you're born poor, it's effortless to die poor. The middle-class is the class that has to rebuild every generation. We've allowed so much corruption and rent-seeking that it's not happening anymore.
My mental health deteriorated too. Looking back I should have built a support network and gone to therapy.. a lot of therapy. This all hit me at the end of college and in grad school. So I was broke too.
I didn't really have family to fall back on either, I was lonely and felt alone.
I'm still working on it, despite marriage/kids etc... I actually wish I had capitalized on my alone time in retrospect. Hence therapy!
>Regardless, I don't believe I'll ever feel the way I once did about this world.
Do you want to feel that way? What you have now is perspective and you know more about yourself.
That's what college is for.
The issue isn't that young people don't want to move into their own place. It's that they literally can't without ruining themselves. For me, moving out of my parents place would mean moving to a tiny shithole that costs over 800CAD and is situated in the worst neighborhood of my city. It would be worse for my mental health (which is already hampered because I find modern cities unbearable) but also an idiotic financial decision.
Point is, all I want is to move away and live in solitude and independence but I think the government would probably find me even if I moved into a cabin in the woods in Yukon.