Millennials Are Completely BROKE, First Generation Poorer Than Previous 

The American dream wasn't based on imperialism and war. It was based on living in a country that produced what it consumed and allowed wealth to accumulate, instead of a country that imports what it consumes which slowly moves all the wealth to the tiny elite controlling that trade. Producing everything with exploitative labor conditions overseas is a lot more like imperialism than producing things at home and paying people enough money to afford what they make for it.

To fix the "everyone needs to go to college" thing, business needs to begin removing the requirements for "minimum qualifications" necessary to apply for jobs. Skills and work ethic and on the job training is vastly more important.

I just can’t imagine a world where a man can work a normal job and support a family and own a home. My great grandpa was a bank teller and provided for his wife and 3 kids while owning a home. That’s fiction to me.

The real problem is that we don’t make anything in this Country anymore. When I grew up in Michigan. We had industry, foundries that smelted metals and forged parts. Those parts were shipped across town to be assembled into car parts. Then shipped across town again and cars were assembled. Now we have the tech industry with no real product.

I'm a Millennial--- I've just never wanted kids? Highschool prepared me for nothing, college seems to be a scam, managers don't respect their employees, I'm 32 and just learned what a Pension is-- and I'm still not sure I grasp the concept- Every time I manage to save 1000$ at a $15/hr full-time job, some emergency pops up, and it all goes down the drain-

I was raised by a single mother, had 3 siblings and no father. I served in the Marine Corps, and two tours of duty in Iraq. I have been working my ass off week to week for the past 14 years, I'm 35 now. Me and my siblings have been trying to dig ourselves out of this hole ever since. Were not lazy Tim, we are spinning our wheels trying to get out of this poverty, but as soon as we have any money it goes straight to taxes and just simple living expenses.

*“Women’s groups follow a double standard: When women lag behind men, that is an injustice that must be aggressively targeted. But when men are lagging behind women, that is a triumph of equity to be celebrated.”* ― Helen Smith

Elder Millennials (c 1981-87) feel this deep in our souls. We're pushing middle age but still feel 20 because we're broke and didn't reach milestones as much

Your guest hit the nail on the head at the beginning of this clip. The economy, even before this current crisis, has not been conducive to millennials buying homes, having families, and thriving like previous generations have.

a group of coworkers had the conversation about the recent poor raises company wide. my friend was happy to bring up the fact that millennials are making more money then anyone in history and i was quick to bring up that we also have the least amount of buying power in history.

They missed a huge point. From the time women entered the work force till now tax rates have increased exponentially. At this point, in a dual income household, one parent works almost exclusively to cover the tax burden. So the children must be turned over to the state to raise.

Tim was so dismissive of millennials and it made it seem like he's out of touch. By and large no one ever gave a damn what millennials wanted. We've just been along for the ride, and the ride (thus far) has really sucked ass.

He has it exactly right. After world war II, if you wanted a tractor, you went to Moline, Illinois to John Deere. Why? Because every tractor factory in Europe had been bombed and there were none in China. If you wanted a car, you went to Detroit. Why? Because every Auto plant in Germany and England and France and Italy had been bombed and destroyed. If you wanted wheat, you came to the American Midwest. Why? Because we had land and the ability to farm on an industrial scale that the plot farmers in Europe just don't have. That was all well and good except instead of investing that wealth and moving forward, we created a welfare state in which you could get by perfectly fine without having to work. Idle hands are The devil's workshop is made perfectly evident by our current state. Instead of encouraging investment in the future, we personalize profits and socialize losses. Instead of encouraging entrepreneurship, we send our kids to factory schools that produce drones. This system deserves to collapse because it is evil. Shatter the government, encourage individualism, and allow success to stand forth.

I'm a millennial (92) and I'm economically stable, I built a home this year, own land, two cars, a career I don't hate. Im not married because I'm terrified of the current social environment where if my wife decides "actually nah I'm bored need a new man" I just get fucking destroyed and lose all the ground I've been grinding for. I've done casual dating but marriage is just completely off the table. I've yet to meet a girl knock me off my feet so hard I'm willing to risk it. I don't think I will.

When a complex system collapses, who pays? The working-class, the very people who kept their head down and did the right thing. but get the blame

Either colleges NEED to guarantee Jobs or each industry and each business has to have it's own college or training program/apprenticeship program. We NEED an educational system that works and provides direction for the students! These college degrees are like a stairway to nowhere!

Tim I'm definitely not lazy and not a child. I've been working since I was 12 mowing lawns, to summer hire, to bagging groceries, to working straight out of high school. I've tried the college thing and it didn't work as I couldn't afford it. I refused to take out loans and put myself into further debt. I'm still paying off some form of debt via car, credit cards, and medical stuff. I can no longer afford a house little alone an apartment at this stage and I make 45k a year. Apartment prices have sky rocketed due to Democrat refugees moving here. A 620 square foot single bedroom apartment that used to cost 700-900 dollars now costs me 1200-1400 dollars. Houses have almost tripled in price. I don't remember a day after 2015 where I haven't worked 50+ hours and just making it by. I don't have time to date or find a wife and have kids. So don't call me childish. I'm just trying to survive.

The options they had were: 1.) Economic stability and prosperity, global security and peace in their lifetimes, or 2.) No mean tweets. *They choose poorly.*

The American dream, owning a house and raising a family was about having a healthy, wholesome goal . Skin in the game changes everything. That's why "They" want to take it away, Then you don't have anything permanent to fight for or defend.

The world has changed. Back in the old days, moms stayed home. Everyone survived on one salary. Today prices have skyrocketed. Birth rate is at an all time low, we have massive student debt. People are living in tents and cars.

As an older millennial I feel a little better knowing it's a whole generational problem and it's not just me whose broke and failing.

I'm 28, and I'm in the same place financially that I was when I was 22. After high school I tried going to school using a government grant program, but the program suddenly decided to cut my grant and I couldn't afford to keep going for the computer science degree I was going for. I have no real debt, and I've hustled and worked as hard as I could to build my savings and find a spouse, but I've been constantly kicked down by things. When Trump was president I had the most economic gains that I've ever had in my life, but then the Covid lockdowns destroyed the economy and caused my workplace to close down, and the relief loans that the government put out caused all the workplaces around where I live to not ever actually hire anyone. I'd be homeless if I didn't get my tax return last April.

The grandparents used to be part of the family, living in the same house. Free daycare, gone. Now Grandma lives in an expensive retirement home because she's a "burden". I think the problem goes back that far.

millennials are just tired, we've been running as hard as we can for years and we haven't really gotten any closer to our goals, you can make more and more money but inflation goes up even higher. it's one step forward and two steps back

Having both parent work was perhaps the biggest mistake the United States has made.

Millennials have also only had 4 good years of economic growth 2016-2020. For example I graduated high school in 2007, economic crash and the Great Recession. I get out of the Army in 2014, there was next to no decent job opportunities available. We have a little reprieve with Trump in office, now we’re heading back into a recession. We haven’t had the chance to succeed like the previous generations, because the previous generations have handicapped us with their terrible management of our economic futures.

The American dream is really the American bankers dream. Constant debt. Homes almost never get paid off. Constant flow of money to banks.

As a millennial, I am just completely disenchanted by everything going on today. I've been working in a steady 9-5 style IT support job for the last nearly 10 years and I can't afford to live on my own. My generation was certainly not taught how to be self-sufficient in society and how to manage our finances. Most of my coworkers in my generation can barely support themselves in this day and age. Rent went from about $750 per month for a 1 bedroom apartment to about $1600 for a studio. Housing in my area has basically doubled in the last two years. This is why millennials are checking out and living in pods or living 4 people in an apartment or even living in vans or buses. Millennials are just trying to find ways to survive in a market where $50k per year doesn't allow you to live anymore.

I agree with Tim, I’m 26 years old when I was in highschool every teacher said you have to go to college to do something with your life, my mother pushed me towards college as well. I had no idea what I wanted to do even, but everyone was saying you’ll figure it out along the way which was terrible advice. I ended up dropping out after 2 years and got into sales and made more money then the job the degree would have paid. Definitely was one of my biggest regrets though. People need to be fully aware of what they are getting into and have a good step by step plan.

An Administration cannot fail so horribly without intenteding to do so

Let's import millions of low skilled workers. That will raise the bar and inspire people to do better right?🙄

Hard to justify having kids when I’m working 3 jobs, highly skilled in my field, and still can’t afford to live in the US. Beyond that my Boomer mom is on the verge of being homeless and needs a lot of financial support. She’s become my child.

I can tell you as a 36 year old millennial, I felt for the first time in 2019 that I was on my way to buy a house. Then the pandemic happened and we got an influx of people fleeing their state to my town and I was priced out of the market overnight. Its honestly one of the most soul wrecking things to be that close and have it torn from you. And it's made me (probably unfairly) bitter to places like California and Washington. When I see their license plates I get so bitter and say to myself they better not be moving here!

I'm 28. Never wanted to go to college-- I wanted to learn a skill/trade and work my way up at a company. However, I went to community college because everyone was telling me "that's the only way. " I finally realized that college isn't for me-- now I'm in real estate, insurance sales and working towards being a financial advisor. Sales isn't for everyone, but college isn't the only route either.

I believe it. It's so hard to make a dollar. Gotta make $10 to keep $1. We need a convention of states to reign in the federal government and to cut some of these taxes.

People used to buy their first house for an amount of money that was less than their annual income. Like being 22 years old, with a salary of $20k, you could buy a nice house for $12k. If millennials with salaries of $65k could buy a first house for $40k our entire economic situations would be radically transformed.

“You will own nothing and you will be happy.” WEF or 1984? 🎩 🐍no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

To be fair to my generation, I don't recall my parents or grandparents being nearly as heavily taxed or hit with enough environmental fees to fund a small country. Government has never taken so much. Couple that with idiotic policies like low interest loans being handed out like tictacs and subsidizing something as ephemeral as education, Millennians were sold a massive ponzi scheme. That said, we did buy into the ponzi scheme. We trusted government. And now we must pay the price. We will suffer and die for our failures. Tis only fitting.

"I don't think any of these things are signs that the system is broken... I think they are signs that the system is working perfectly. They are signs that the system is working exactly how it was designed to work" - Tom Macdonald

"A bunch of millennials went to college for Liberal Arts?" What? Lol. I'm from California, and almost everyone I know that went to college did not go for Liberal Arts. Even engineering, accounting, finance, and other more "viable" majors had a hard time finding jobs after graduating

Yeah its pretty hard when a $200k house is now worth $1M+. Good luck EVER affording one. Even in my small FL town, thats how much housing has gone up. Rent is also ridiculous, of course.

Millennials have lived through 3 “once in a generation” economy crashes before they even hit 40. Add the constant rise in the costs for accommodation, food. It’s a tough world for them

Meanwhile gen Z is still trying to figure out if they’re male or female or a cat

Pure economics is the reason why. Salaries haven't been rising as fast as income. Now it takes 2 income earners to afford the same standard of living a single salaried person could afford back in the 60s. The wealth cycles haven't been cycling. The game is rigged. My grandfather could afford to buy a house and take care of his wife and 14 children (during the periods of 1925-1950). My grand mother wanted a grand piano in her living room, not because she wanted to learn how to play. She wanted it because it looked good. My grandfather bought her one. Try affording a grand piano nowadays to use as a fancy piece of furniture, let alone be able to afford to raise 2 children on 2 salaries. And my grandfather worked in labor btw! This should be proof that we're technically more poor than previous generations. Even during the great depression my grandfather was richer than me and I have no kids nor own a home.

We're not broke, it's just that everything has gotten so expensive and pay hasn't increased enough to compensate. As a result, we also can't save as much as previous generations because almost all our income goes right back to the government for taxes and the outrageous cost of living right now. It's demoralizing for many of the younger generations because the future does not look too bright for America or the world so why sit on all your money and save it for a retirement that you can't afford regardless rather than just spending it and enjoying life while you can. We're overworked, overstressed, underpaid and for what? We're not meant to be living like this, slaving away at a job you hate that stresses you so much that it takes years off your life just to earn an income that the government takes 1/3rd of while you can barely afford a roof over your head. And it only looks to get worse in the future. There's a reason nobody wants to work and it's not because of laziness, it's because it's not worth it. You're better off enjoying life and pursuing more high-risk careers that you actually enjoy doing rather than settling at a job you hate and then rotting there for the rest of your life, it's not worth it. Middle class America is dying a slow death, it'll only be the rich and the poor eventually and most of the middle class is going to end up on the poor side.

Yo this guy is dead on about the history of millennials. 20 years of war and politics are just people yelling at each other.

This generation is calling vans, sheds, tents and literal boxes; homes! The standard of living isn't just lower, it's rock bottom. You could only get lower by falling into an economic depression 😂 I'll see you there in a couple years. It's much more difficult to live in a vehicle than a lot of people think. Almost everyone that does live out of a vehicle either has a house to go home to or wishes they did. Living the "van life" is scary, unlawful in a lot of places, and (coming from an automotive mechanic, and a contractor) vehicles are much more complex, experience much more wear and tear, leading to more maintenance, some of which cannot be done without specialty tools. Houses are simple, repairs are easy and few. Building, fixing and upgrading can almost all be done with a hammer, saw and tape measure (basic tools) Also, mowing lawn and growing gardens are fun and rewarding. Van life is just a fancy way of saying homelessness, let's just call it what it is.

I'm a millennial. I live hilariously below my means; I treat myself to fast food once a week. I eat canned soup every day. I have a full-time job, 4-year degree from well-known university, and a job with a global company--job is fine, I can't complain about it. My salary is adequate for stupid stuff--like going out to eat or Netflix (wasteful things). When it comes to meaningful purchases though, like a house--I just laugh. I'll never be able to afford a home that's a good investment. I'll never be able to retire. Social Security will be well and truly upside-down and done by the time I can get on it. It's no surprise millennials aren't having kids--why would they? Kids are expensive and there will be nothing to pass on to them. The American dream: homeownership, financial freedom, a stable family with kids--If you read that and think: "That's me!" Congrats--you're the exception, and whether by hard work or sheer luck, you're in a vanishingly small and fortunate minority. Try not to wield it like a club on the rest of us.

The 01 attack, the 08 financial crash, and the 2019 WuhanVirus outbreak has impacted so many of my friends and family lives. Each major event has in some way ruined or negatively impacted so many of my of my generation. sucks.

Tim is right about boomers SCREAMING at CHILDREN “GO TO COLLEGE!!!” Even from the 7th grade, this is all I heard from every teacher ever. It’s like they all got the memo or something. Exaggerating - in high school, I had some awesome and logical teachers.

I’ve. Honestly thought it might be a good idea to just rob a bank. One of two things will happen. Either I get away with it and can survive or I go to prison and get free rent and food for life. It’s a win win in my eyes

Tim is missing the mark, his guest explains how instability has robbed this generation of their expectations. He's intent on characterizing people in a negative light. It's sorta insufferable

I’m sure the government would say “corporate greed” as an answer to literally everything in this video.

What we are witnessing is the BS line of “you have to go college” to be successful that has been spewed for 50-60 years. I’m a Gen X-er and the same line was preached to us, I couldn’t afford college and frankly didn’t want to go. I joined the military and afterwards worked my way up at my job in the trades, I make more than most of my friends who went to college and definitely more than my guidance counselor who said I wouldn’t amount to sh*t because I didn’t go to college. It’s okay to not to go to college, get a job in the trades and the money is there. A liberal arts degree is almost a sure fire way to be in a horrible paying job or unemployed.

I still don’t understand how people can be so blind to the fact that the Federal Reserve is the reason for all of this. We were always destined for hyperinflation.

Millennial here. I live in a van. I did the 40k + interest college for liberal arts route. I’m not married. I don’t see a future with kids. I started vanlife enjoying the freedom like you said, and I still love and want to keep a van for travel always. BUT NOW, I see vanlife as a way to stack cash for my music career and for saving for a house as I FINALLY at the age of 35 realize that owning property is the way to wealth. Finally investing as well. Millennials emotionally also experienced a lot as children that carved us out differently. This podcast NAILS it 💯

I lived in a house when I was a child. Now I live in a apartment and I know I could never afford a house like my parents did.

Can confirm I’m very broke

Before college: "You have to go to college unless you want to flip burgers all your life" After college, when you can't find a good job: "Why are you so entitled, you could always go flip burgers"

actually, every single generation has been poorer then the previous one since about late 19th century, Even if your grandfather lived in a shack and rode a horse, he most likely OWNED that shack, and OWNED that horse. and his dollar didnt buy him half the stuff one year after he made it. We are poorer than ever, we just live more confortably

Of course... an entire generation of people who own nothing will be much easier to control when "You will own nothing and be happy!" Becomes the norm!

I've been working for almost twenty years, including almost a decade straight of twelve hour days six days a week, and I still have basically nothing to show for it. Anytime I've had a decent amount of savings something bad has happened. Health issues/medical bills, losing a job, having to move, having to replace a vehicle or pay for extensive repairs etc. My life is meaningless and I feel like I'm only living to financially benefit others. If it weren't for my cat, I would've committed suicide long ago.

They need to bring back classes like “Home Economics” or “How to Finance”. My parents and grandparents had those classes back in school and it had helped them make it through the difficult parts of life. I wish I had that back in school.

reality changed. Who wants to get married knowing you will probably get divorced and lose everything?

Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.

Tim Pool himself certainly is NOT a broke millennial. Quite to the contrary, I assume.

Millenial here: parents pushed me to go to college, got a degree in Engineering so it wasn't a waste of time and money. Lived in an apartment for a couple years and then with my in laws. My wife and I built a house we can afford on one salary out in the country in the Deep South. I cannot recommend Dave Ramsey enough for people my age, older folks, or younger folks. Yes he gives economic advise based a Christian worldview but its incredibly sound advise on how to grow money and wealth.

as a somewhat successful millennial we truly did get stuck in a shity time line.

As someone about to turn 40.... Media pressured us to party. Hookups were glorified, marriage was treated like a lesser option. Sublime said it best "marriage is an institution in decay". Religion became an ignored part of life for a huge amount of young adults. Maybe they never experienced religion, or maybe as a kid, but it seemed like some turned to politics, or sports, or a lifestyle as their hollow religion. Women embraced gaining financially from a failed marriage. Child support is a forced indebtedness on men. Talk shows and media brainwashed women into unrealistic self-worth. Every woman thinks they are a princess and deserve a guy like Ryan Reynolds or any top 10% alpha. Men want a playmate or stripper. Drugs got a lot stronger. Video games have become addicting. Talk shows became ultra divisive and encouraged tribe mentality. Student loans, high price college. Years tied up with a war that seemingly had no benefit to anyone in hindsight. Plus the massive price explosion of education (esp if a worthless degree), homes 2x or 3x in price in 20 years, cars exploding in price. And a lack of self-discipline to glue all the problems together. And now we see people shifting gears to live in vans, RVs, cabins, and sheds because their income is low, debt is mile high, and they can't get a loan to save their life... let alone pay back their past loans. Who to blame? Seems like there is a lot to go around. The individual can start with themselves and read the book "richest man in Babylon" - that's a simple lesson on getting financially back on track. Figure out the rest as finances improve.

If you graduated from high school anywhere from the early 60s to the late 80s, you had the ability to enter the workforce right out of high school with the chance at a much better paying job and longevity in that company/field, without having or needing a college degree, than most kids have who have graduated college within the last 20 to 25 years. There was not the global competition for jobs 35 to 60 years ago as there is now. There was not the demand for the sets of technical skills 35 to 60 years ago as there is now. My dad graduated high school in '61, got married in '64, graduated college in '65, and went on to get his Masters degree, and if he were entering the workforce right now at the age he was when he got his master's, with that same set of knowledge and skillsets for the time, he would be working at Starbucks, but the fact is he was able to get married and start a family when he was just a senior in college, got hired on by Quaker Oats while he was still finishing up his bachelor's, he and my mom started their family right away and they had 4 kids by the end of 1969, his company sent him around the Midwest region for his job early on and put our family up in company owned housing, and they finally relocated him to the Chicagoland area permanently in 1969, where he was able to buy a 4 bedroom 3 bath home in the northwest suburbs for just $35,000 in late 1969 at just 26 years of age, and then he and My mom finally had my sister in '73 and me in '75. Most couples today in their mid 30s to early 40s can't even accomplish what my parents were able to back then when they were just in their early to mid twenties, and it's not because my parents were smarter or had a better education than today's people, or even a better work ethic for the most part, although maybe, it's just because the wages and the career stability and longevity that company's and society in general used to give you, are no longer a thing, and inflation is killing our country, and $15.00/hr today gives you no better means to support yourself than $4.25 gave you 25 years ago. The greedy execs within our corporations sold out to the highest bidders of foreign powers 30 years ago and our political leaders let it happen with their hands out, and subsequently it has become a global market for jobs because of thst and it's not a wonder that these foreign powers took care of their own once they bought up our companies instead of hiring us. And outsourcing has killed us, and just the fact that certain industries went away like the steel industry and others in the manufacturing base, and those jobs are just not coming back because they are deemed obsolete because the needs have changed, and the way we live our lives has changed, and so it's just a totally different world for the Gen Z's and millennials, and even for some of the younger gen Xers who graduated college in a similar workforce climate conditions as the millennials and gen Z kids, who are just now starting to graduate highschool and college, than it was for the older gen Xers and baby boomers.

I am (unfortunately) a millennial BUT I’m 35, been employed since I was 16. Started as a sandwich maker at subway and am currently an executive healthcare recruiter and business developer. Married, 2 kids, bought a house. I have both struggled and I have not struggled financially at different ages…. I need to call my mom and thank her for raising me right lol

First and foremost, we need to STOP sending any kind of money or aid to any other country until we have our own situation figured out and help OUR own people who are being neglected.

Millennials are the lost generation. We are the most depressed generation, the poorest generation, first gen to have cell phones in our younger years. A generation where divorce is more common than a good marriage. A lot come from broken homes. The Failed public education system. The list goes on.

"People are permanent chidren": I completely agree, and as much as it pains me to say it, my generation (X) has absolutely failed our kids.

You do realize this is exactly how the noble failed over time once they no longer were able to tax the peasants.

I'm reminded of Eric Weinstein saying years ago that we have had an economy based on endless growth and we're coming to the point of diminishing returns. Add in the idea that everyone is supposed to go to college which then floods the colleges with am endless supply of student loan money, which creates a supply/demand problem that inflates tuitions and incentives colleges to invent useless, easy-to-obtain degrees, and you have kids graduating with massive debt and finding there are no real jobs out there for their useless degree; and combine all that with reckless government spending creating huge debt while investing very little of that money in infrastructure... we're seeing the results.

As a GenXer I remember Millennials 1starting to enter the job market. They were so desperate to get gigs they started taking jobs for way less than GenXers would. I worked at a company for 8 years. When I left the job and started to look for work, seeing my college graduation date with qualified resume they didn’t interview me they just asked me how much I wanted. When I asked for my same wage they said they couldn’t hire for that rate anymore. Too many college kids were willing to learn on the job for far less. Paying MORE for college made them desperate enough to take jobs for LOWER wages.

The early Roman Legions were required to be land-owning citizens for a reason. Individuals had a vested interest in protecting personal property and family.. Group ownership and unearned income gives power to the Leader/Leaders of the group.

About fifteen years ago, the Associated Press ran a story about how Millenials spent their money on "experiences" like trips and concerts rather than save for home ownership or retirement. This is just buyer's remorse over magic beans.

As a millennial, we may of gotten the short end of the stick. A lot of policies worked against us rather than help us. Some of the advice we received was not relevant to the current times.

I'm not broke but then again I didn't go to school for "women's studies", didn't buy a new car off the lot, and didn't buy an unaffordable first home.

“Go to college if you want to make more money” - every millennials HS guidance counselor. College isn’t for everyone but that’s what it was sold as. The older generations were told you have to work hard to get the “American dream” college wasn’t just something automatic. It’s made our generation poorer and less skilled.

Part of the plan.

Both of these can be true at the same time: many young adults are overgrown adolescents and Boomers ruined everything.

The problem with going to college now is that teens are told that any degree is fine. In some ways I was lucky being poor. I knew I couldn't afford to get a degree that didn't pay for itself. I looked at the job market and payed attention to degree cost, pay range, and labor competition. I went to a community College and got an associates in a field where I could immediately enter at the bottom and work my way up. I started at 35K, in five years I was at double that pay. In ten I was at triple, and now I'm at quadruple. The point is I did research and didn't just get any degree. I also went to an affordable college with hands on programs in the field I wanted to work in.

I'm 38. I graduated in June of 2001. 3 months later, the entire world changed. I didn't think I would even end up going to college. Eventually I got a big loan to be able to go to film school in LA. I graduated in February 2008. Then the housing market/financial crisis hit. There were no jobs, and I was living with my parents. Scraped my way through dead end jobs until 2012 when I could afford a small 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house. Had a steady job for 9 and 1/2 years. Got fired December of 2019...right before covid. Then there really were no jobs, had to rent out my house and move in my parents. Finally a year later got a new job, back in my house, but see no real prospects in the future. I know I'm lucky to still own a home, but I've stopped dating for so long I don't even know how to start it again. The future looks pretty bleak from my perspective.

The work ethic was completely different than gen x. We had the mentality of just figure it out because if you wait for someone to help or show you you’ll be waiting forever. The same career I opted for to pull myself out of poverty exists today but I don’t know anyone now who’d put in the same effort. They can have that white picket fence but it costs more than they are willing to give. It takes time, energy, and sacrifice. A lot of sacrifice. They want the rewards without the sacrifice and I don’t feel bad for them.

I agree with Tim, most millenials are living through a perpetual adolescence. So many millenials behave like children. However, there is also the constant assault on standards of living. We've been unable to attain anything close to what our parents had, and it's depressing - and tiring. We're tired. It just feels like running on a hamster wheel. You go to college, get a degree, and the only place you can work is the supermarket or McDonald's, and you can barely afford rent as the prices go up and up and up. And then to top it all off, all of your cohorts are childish assholes who call you a Nazi or a racist for wanting a traditional marriage.

People are often called "children" or "people that needs to grow up" as a way to excuse their less than well thought out behaviors. However, what is more concerning, is calling people "children" so one may take their resources in the name of "the adults are here to take care of things because we know better".

My son is one of them. He would not take out advice about working and saving money. He had a bit of money in savings after leaving the military and decided he could live off that vs working. He was not raised that way and refused to take our advice... now he's broke.

It’s absolutely about the ratio of wages to inflation, my parents were both accountants in the late 70’s early 80’s making 50k combined and bought a home in a socal suburb for 100k, 2x their combined income. If 2 accountants today making 150k combined tried to buy the same house it would cost over 1million 7x their combined income. Housing, education, food, utilities and insurance etc have all disproportionately multiplied. And for some of the commenters who managed to succeed I guarantee that there are probably 10 other millennials who aren’t succeeding. And still as a whole we are all paying extreme ratios for similar standards of living compared to generations before.

I’m an old millennial; still not married. I’m not having a family because the family court will destroy me if I get divorced.

My parents bought 5 acres and built their dream house- $50k. My mom didn't work. 25yrs later, my husband and I buy a house on the same street, 2 acres and the house is smaller- $250k. My husband and I both work full time and have side hustles. Shit be hard.

The number of times ive tried explaining that the poverty line has risen. Or that when gas was $.25gal and minimum wage was only $1.08, the standard of living was much better. There was a time that the average 25yo man had a house, wife and 2.5 kids. At least 1 paid for late model car and nearly no debt.

2008 screwed me over HARD. Lost job, took forever to find a good job. Had to start doing hard manual labor again, which pays like shit and ruins your back and feet. Now we're going through a worse version of 2008.

It’s the combination of millennials being poorer (higher college loans and cost of living, rent and minimum wage not keeping up with each other) as well as unfair divorce courts that almost always side with women for both alimony and child support. (Outdated court systems built for a stay at home house wife when these days a wife or mom probably works anyways) men are learning and just deciding to not get married anymore

The failure of millennial men is pretty easy to identify the problem. Only 6 in 1000 is getting married, if a man doesn’t have a woman, he has no real initiative to try hard at anything. They barely participate in society on the average. The factors causing this are: A. The courts are 100% against men in divorce cases, B. Even if he were married, his mate could kill his unborn child with no consequence. C. The average 30 year old woman has had over 100 different sex partners according to the data Tinder collected including gps data they used. D. Overwhelming, most scholarships, and financial aid for continued education goes to females. The cross section of veterinary graduates is over 90% female now. This was a male dominated career 20 years ago, what an indicator. Not to mention that practically every job has minority preference in the selection. It’s the perfect storm all at once against the millennial male. I’m so glad I’m a gen X, and got to experience the last of the American dream. I feel so sorry for you guys.

I've worked my whole life busting my ass to climb up in the high-tech industry, and I earn 3x more than I did 20 years ago because of that relentless struggle. I will still never own a house in my lifetime. Not when a basic house goes for $1,000,000, and rising because of mega corporations based in China paying double what a house is worth to own everything these days.

I’m a millennial, non woke. It’s the inflation plus student loan debt. Another thing is having no kids impacts taxes ALOT and even if you are making let’s say 40K you’re screwed on your income taxes

As a gen Z "kid" (unfortunately I'm closer to gen Z than millennial) I'm legit afraid for our future as a country