Dude! You are describing the very people who buy into socialism and then have their lives and country totally wreck by it.
You know what im going to expand on this because it's clear you really don't understand. I'm a millennial. I have had the privilege of making high 100k's since my mid 20s, I own a home, and I can afford just about every luxury the modern man could ask for. If I interviewed my average friend they'd be slammed with student debt (I JUST paid mine off!), broke, and probably working a deadend job. The story is the same - "my parents told me to get an education but not what to get, the government gave me free money and didn't educate me on loans..."
I am surrounded by
actual, suffering people of my generation. I voted for Trump, and to be honest I am more disappointed in Trump than I ever was with Obama. It's a shame, because I was so excited I bought champagne for his inauguration.
1. Housing is so bad that renting is the only option. Where there is housing there are no jobs, where there are jobs there is no housing. This creates a nation of serfs renting from landlords who were fortunate enough to buy in the last major downturn and are now jacking up rents 15% per year (in my area as of last week when I checked). I got my house when the market briefly tumbled back down to the median. I got
lucky especially since interest rates have been rock bottom for Trump's term. Majority of my neighborhood is current being rented through Chinese REITs because the west coast has been completely purchased by billionaire Chinese.
2. Utilities are rented and so are most phone lines, internet lines, etc. In my state you can't even use solar anymore because the local energy monopoly lobbied to allow them to charge a "solar fee". It's completely unapproachable unless you have a 40 acre plot of land to place millions in solar panels at.
3. Software is generally subscription based so you own nothing there.
4. The gig economy has created a legion of people who are just barely surviving for horrible wages and work conditions further adding to the serfdom.
5. Simple things like affording to repair a car has become impossible for the majority of my generation because we (including me) were told that college is the only way, given FREE MONEY with no education, and told to "get an education because thats where the jobs are". Turn around 10 years later and the god damn boomers, the rapers of our economy, are blaming us for being "lazy" when we were given no guidance at all!
6. Nordic countries have done well with socializing public goods like healthcare. There is no "death board". We are behind in America in a number of ways and we should figure out our own way (with taxes, or without) to improve our situation.
7. The gap between the middle class and the upper class continues to extend by the year - not because of "laziness" but because of wealth concentration due to inheritance and incredible (tax avoiding) capital gains. Trump himself has passed a "tax break" that crushed the working class and helped the upper class. This is uncalled for, and to be honest, un-American. Consider this:
OUR PRESIDENT is a primary beneficiary of the inheritance and wealth concentration problem of America. A "small loan of a million dollars" and billions in debt on his real estate portfolio. He does not represent the average American.
You are so ignorant of the actual problems of society. I wish you understood more. Perhaps volunteering at your local homeless shelter will help open your eyes to problems
actual people face, and perhaps you could pull yourself more centrist where the true enlightenment happens. You'd label me as a socialist. I'd label me as a centrist. I believe in capitalism, and I can tell you the system we have today
IS NOT capitalism.
