Iâd love to buy a house, but I canât afford a down payment and canât be certain that Iâll have the same income levels for thirty years and I donât actually know whether the banks will accept my highly-fluctuating, self-employed-and-seasonal-labor income as stable enough or high enough to be approved for a mortgage.
And also every new housing development Iâve seen in the past five years has been âExecutive Housing, Starting At 390Kâ and the realtor websites are full of last decadeâs foreclosed subdivision homes in the $275K region, and thereâs legit no one, including the zoning board, thatâs going to help me find or make a cute little house on a tenth of an acre in the region of $50-60K, let alone every other millennial who might like to settle down in a place that suits her desires and means.
Oh, and that same zoning means five people arenât allowed to share that $300K, 5-bedroom McMansion, because fuck us, thatâs why.
And what else? The refrigerator that recently conked out on me was manufactured in 1967. That thing lasted almost fifty years, and today if I walk into a big box storeâs appliance department to buy a new refrigerator they will tell me I should really buy a warranty to cover the apparently-substantial risk that it will break within two to five years.
Oh, and thereâs apparently a $400ish premium to buy one with a convenient configuration because if you want the refrigerator on top and accessible without bending down for anyone taller than your average first grader there arenât any of those in the entry-level price range. Once again, fuck us.
Then thereâs the labor market itself, where âentry levelâ positions want three-to-five years of experience, and everybody wonât shut up about the trades but even that requires a $5K+ outlay to go to school for it, and every fast-food restaurant out there has a permanent âNow Hiringâ sign up because they drive employees away as fast as they can replace them.
And so many food-service jobs involve being forced to throw away loads of food as it expires but if you eat it or take it home itâs viewed as stealing, and retail jobs sometimes require you to smash perfectly good computers with a sledgehammer so nobody can use them, and fuck all of this, yes, Iâm gonna make my own goddamn laundry detergent from a recipe I found on the internet, and Iâm gonna buy as much of my vegetables as possible in seed form, and Iâm gonna fucking read the consumer reviews on shit before I buy it and Iâm going to source a refrigerator from Cragislist for approximately the price of the warranty on a new one, and if The Market wants me to buy a house, it can bloody well wait for me to have the money.
Because seriously, with its âAsk not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economyâ mindset and historic, far-reaching fuckery, the business side of the equation has little room to complain about millennials being the selfish ones.
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