Geez, these whiners making us millennials look bad. Look millennials, here's some harsh truths: 1. This idea you can't 'afford to have kids' is BS. You'll never be ready to have effing kids. You just do it & you figure out life. "I need $100k/yr & $50k in savings," shut up 2. If you're a 32-42 yr old millennial and you didn't buy a house from 2013-2020, that's your fault. What stopped you from buying a $160k 3/2. "I don't like commuting," too bad. We all do it. "I want to live near the cool bars in DT." You need to walk to your bar, you can't drive 15 min? 3. Drop this dumb idea being peddled out there, "I should only have to work 32 hours/week." Idiot. Who made you king. People used to work in the fields 12 hrs per day just to survive. To eat. Not to pay for vacations & eating out. Get to work. And not 'fake work' like sitting in meetings. Build something. 4. If you had gotten married like prior generations, aka mid-20s, you likely would be further along financially. Your dog can't support your household. 5. You can literally email anyone in the world. If you want a job at a company, you can legit email the CEO/VP of that company pitching yourself to work there. The internet has given you access to more things than ever in history. You're wasting it spending the gigabytes making these crying TikToks. 6. You can literally recreate yourself in a second thanks to the internet. I graduated w/ student loans w/ an accounting degree. I sucked at accounting. So I pivoted my entire life, with no family $/help, a SAH wife/newborn and debt. I did it all by doing #5. Pitching myself cold to 'hire this new guy'. Guess what? You face rejection a lot. If you're not hearing "NO" all the time, you're not trying at life. 7. The government is not the answer you're hoping. The US is up to its eyeballs in debt. They aren't going to pay your bills, give you UBI & let you paint for a living in your basement. They'll promise you the world... but if you think socialism or some gov't handouts will help... stop complaining about 'inflation' as they caused it. 8. Buy assets not trucks. I read this 'buy now, pay later' article as BNPL is booming. Some dude is saying "I can't afford groceries, but I did BNPL to pay for $4k in gaming equipment and WWE tix." Really? I'm supposed to feel sorry for people like this? Who have no money, but spend their time gaming with all their expensive gaming shit? I know guys that complain about the 'economy' then roll up in a huge truck with lifted wheels. "But you live with your parents still, dude." You do not "have it harder" than other generations. Every generation faces difficulties. Life is work. This idea of "Well, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made computers & Al Gore invented the internet, so my life is supposed to be easy." No it won't. No one's life is easy. Every generation has a new challenge.