Despite all that, things are overall better than previous generations. There is and always has been bad news. Life has always been a constant string of disasters, yet when you pause for a moment to reflect you realize that despite the bad news, overall it wasn't that bad.
Main reason I never had kids was I was screwed over by just about everything financially. Student loans, housing/“financial crisis”, medical system, deck stacked against self-employment, predatory credit cards. Great job, USA. Then the same cunts who did that bemoan low birth rates and cry about immigrants.
bluGill@kbin.social 8 months ago
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
In many countries, yes. People in India and China for instance are on average more likely to not be in severe povery and subsistence vs 40 years ago, though western-style modernization has caused it's own problems. However most people are less well off in the US than we were in the 50s-90s. Reagan economics seems to have been 'wait, why are we letting the middle class exist? We could just keep all their money'
bluGill@kbin.social 8 months ago
Most people in the Us are better off than the 50's-90's. They may feel worse off, but that is not an objective measure.
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
When people could afford a decent home on a single job paid minimum wage? Not so sure.
Acters@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are TOO MANY procedures/fees/tax/unsafe ways to lose everything you have or be in a position where you will never be able to live without constantly being demanded to provide more work/cash/time.
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
Agreed, life wasn't this shakey in the past. Depression era: certainly, but it was caused by the same BS we are dealing with now. For example, it's amazing that medical bills are a leading cause of bankruptcy and thus degradation of quality of life in the US, and there's no will among politicians or citizens to do much about.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even if you make it to 65 Medicare Hospice at the end of your life is designed to wipe you out. So no inheritance…
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
Right, The hope for Gen X/Z has been "just wait until until your boomer parents die! Then you can have a normal life!" and then it's oh, sorry, guess you have $4 million in medical bills if they don't just die instantly.