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Yeah no shit. They feel that way because it is that way. You don't need polls for this information. It's economics. "Perceived" or not, it is actually, literally harder for millenials and younger adults to achieve the same level of financial stability as their parents, full stop. That's not a matter of feeling or perception. That's the declining real value of money. Inflation, greedflation, economic contraction at key life milestones, wealth inequality, lower indicators for health, and on and on. Across every metric I can think of off the top of my head, millenials and the next generations perform worse than previous generations due to circumstances entirely beyond their control (and largely the result of the prior generations, including dead hand control and policies directly adversarial to young adults' accumulation of wealth). For many young adults, the best financial windfall they'll ever experience will be when their more affluent parents die, and no active measure they can take on their own behalfs will meaningfully change it.

The ruling class should be terrified of them.

Gee, it's almost as though paying 2½ times more for an education and 3 times more for a house on basically the same wage is hard. This is not rocket science. It's basic arithmetic

Motherfuckers pulled up the rugs, roads and rails behind them and can get entirely fucked. They had generation after generation invest in their eventual well-being and then spent like mad. Devastated everything. Fuck them. No contact. No grandkids.

I still question what "being an adult" even means. Sure, I pay taxes and have a job. Is that...it? I play video games in my spare time, spend way too much time on Youtube, and really not much has changed from when I was a teen until now.

I have no hope of ever buying a home or of seeing even a fraction of the comparative wealth of a generation or two ago. So, what does being an adult even mean right now?

The article keeps mentioning a “glimmer of hope” but that glimmer is just surviving or getting married on schedule.

I don’t know what they’re smoking.

It's a lot more palatable to adult, when your actions have a reasonable chance to lead you to a better life situation.

Gen Z and millennial adults are having a hard time achieving the same milestones their parents did when they first ventured out into the workforce, such as finding a job, getting promoted or buying a house.

Ha! What a joke of an article. The financial and environmental and social concerns today are wildly different. Many CAN'T do what their parents or grandparents did. It's not a one to one comparison.

Oh wow, you mean to tell me that between paying disgustingly high rent, car payments, car insurance, gas, increasing food prices for less food than before, and having buying power that is stagnant at best and shrinking in most cases due to inflation, it’s hard to be financially stable?

Next thing you know, that article will tell me water is wet.

I don't think any of that is "adulting."

As a parent of a 17yo, adulting is:

1. Buying and eating your own healthy food
2. Arranging your own transportation
3. Working and living within your means, whatever that looks like
4. Paying your bills on time
5. Regularly doing something for the community
6. Making and keeping your own appointments
7. Managing your own meds
8. Having someone/ something besides yourself to take care of
9. Trying to understand people you don't agree with
10. Focusing on people instead of problems

adulting

Please don't

0/0%, just throw my corpse in the work dumpster when I die.

This article is a really clever bait and switch. It talks extensively about how resilient and optimistic Gen Z is. Which is unfortunate for me: I wanted an article explaining how I can get better at adulting.

We're better at a lot of different stuff than they ever were. I just don't like buying car insurance by phone.