Quote from: RE on May 21, 2024, 07:25 AM'I'm screwed': young adults forced by EU housing crisis to live with parents

RE

The 25-year-old did move out briefly last year – a friend had a room for let – but the steep rent meant Connor quickly returned home. While he and some of his friends are saving for a deposit, high property prices meant others had little hope of doing so on their salaries, he said: "Some say, 'I'm screwed, I'm going to be living with my parents for ever.'"

I see no mention of parents thinking the situation is fucked. 

Children who do not leave home do not contribute to maintaining the home or offsetting expenses.  There is no magic moment when they have an epiphany telling them it is time to stop being a useless eater and pull their weight. 

The article mentions the situation does not indicate lack of ambition on the part of youth.

Bullshit.  It is visits to friends and comedy clubs every night and sleeping in.  Anybody too lazy or to entitled to work for twenty bucks an hour is considered to be making a statement.  It is individual expression like a first amendment right.  Freedom.

In the 70's, protest about 'working for the man' was common.  But not working was not an option.  Men did not want to spend their adult life as a baby.  Men contribute, work, and build.  It is what a man is.  That is what a man does.  It is a law of the universe. 

You did not bitch about working for the man without having a job to bitch about 'in the day'.  Now work is considered to be a lifestyle choice.  Optional.  An elective activity.  You can bitch about work without having dirty fingernails now.

Working was normal once.  Now cutting your dick off and moaning about the pain of the world is normal if you are entitled enough.  Work became an optional oppression.  Work was not something only Mexicans did the way entitled game playing button pushing thumbs think of work now.  Yes America is racist that way.  And more racist than it used to be.

The day I realized I was not 'special' was an important day in my life.  Much of what is adult in me was born that day.  If I had never left home I'm not sure I would have reached that maturity.  Certainly not as quickly.  A child needs a good home life, but someone who never leaves home remains a child in many ways.  Adult children do not learn that what you do, or not do, is on you.

I'll give some sympathy to the suffering parents.  Nobody else will.

The exceptions, children who are responsible and recognize they might actually be a hardship on their parents make my case.  You have to look hard for them.

* The article is about Europe.  In America a Pew Research Center survey found that around one-third of U.S. adults ages 18-34 live with their parents. Financial independence varies significantly within this group; while some are employed, others are not fully independent or are receiving financial support from their parents.

** Half of that third is as happy as a clam in mud,  having no desire to wake up early and change the situation.  I figure the author knew that saying such a thing directly would not make it across the edit desk.  Hence 'some are employed others are not'.  Mainstream articles have to be all happy happy joy joy.  But this is the Diner and we are shadow banned in Google searches.  There is no reason not to speak our mind.  And be honest.