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>>gmays+(OP)
The finances of marriage don't make sense until, what, $75k/yr or more?

If you need any sort of public assistance, marriage is a severe eligibility fence.

>>h2odra+74
Maybe people are just aiming too high. Sometimes you have to know your limitations and know where you fit. Not everyone is a high achiever and not everyone thought education was going to deliver a better sociology economic potential for them. It’s unfortunate that society today misleads youth in thinking they can make their own reality and that there are shortcuts to success for all. Some are lucky but most are not.

You can let the river current take you where it may, or you might plan and prepare do that you may land on a desirable bank. People have to take some control over their lives if they want to have some self determination.

>>mc32+m7
You see, your thought processes are part of the problem.

> misleads youth in thinking they can make their own reality and that there are shortcuts to success for all.

Many people, like myself, are not shooting for "success". We just want to live and hang out with our family and friends. That is success. And the economic structure makes that impossible because everyone else has the idea that success means having to figure out if they can retire on $3.5 million. But in doing so it affects people like us who want to retire in the place we grew up with our family. But people who this "success" is having a lot of sht come in and buy a house and turn it into an AirBnB rental.

The reality is that capitalist advertising keeps pushing the idea of what success is out further and further. So don't blame "the youth" blame people like yourself for telling everyone else what success looks like.

>>Follow+u9
This is just the old Chomsky false conscious argument which is as wrong now as ever. Nothing is stopping you from living frugally and valuing friends and family. The economic structure doesn’t prevent that, in fact it’s generally easier to live with parents if you get along well.

Other people just want other things, and that’s OK too.

>>ch4s3+be
> it’s generally easier to live with parents if you get along well

Yeah, but American/human mating rituals being what they are, it's not like you'll be getting married and having kids in that situation.