It’s funny how the narrative changes when a group can actually fight back. Most of the Gen-Xers I know in tech aren’t going back to the office, not because they are ultrawealthy but because they are getting old, are virtually irreplaceable, and are prioritizing life over work after having survived the pandemic.
Also, sure Millenials and Gen-Z are “choosing” to go back. They aren’t compelled in any way. Right.
The generational divide is real in a way because different generations had different possibilities financially.
A few years back you could get cheap loans now you cannot. If you finished university after 08 you could not get a job that paid the same as before or at all etc. These are ups and downs in the market of course but things put you on a trajectory.
I don’t know if I will ever own anything and it does not look better for future generations.
Yeah, true. Thanks to investors and the fact that we treat housing like a commodity that can be bought and sold, it was inevitable.
The only reason I was able to buy a house was because I live in bumfuck, South Dakota, I have a husband who applied for the loans along with me, and we got on two programs. But that was in 2019, and it’s gotten worse since then, even here.
But yeah, I do understand what you’re saying. I just think the blanket statements about entire generations are wack. They called us Gen Xers “slackers” in the 90s and said we didn’t want to leave our parents basements, etc. – they say the same shit about every generation, and it’s like we get amnesia about it every time. It’s so ignorant when I hear people my age say the exact same things about Gen Z and millenials that they said about us.