Great read from WSJ
>The conventional explanation for what’s freezing young adults in place is that they can’t afford to grow up, given rising inflation and ballooning housing costs. Yet this doesn’t quite explain what’s going on.   
>It’s true that 30-somethings have had a run of tough economic luck. Many of them entered the job market during the Great Recession, rode out the pandemic by moving back in with their parents, and are now dealing with the worst housing market in 40 years. But the numbers paint a more complicated picture.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/what-happens-when-a-whole-generation-never-grows-up-d200e9ef?st=AvqXMP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I feel like these articles exist to either 

1. Struggle porn to make people who are marginally less loserish (hello) feel amazing because they aren’t crash outs 

2. Give those who are successful a scapegoat to blame for all the world’s ills. There’s several great candidates here. The dual English/History degree holder is good but men rarely hate on men, and there’s a woman aka breed mare who says she feels like she can’t have kids, so

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I also don't know what to do with these kinds of articles, seems like its just out there begging for someone to come along and say "it's ok for you to be an adult-child forever sweetie' 

It's hard not to dismiss it as just entitled complaining tbh, just take the Gen X path instead:
>feeling, like they did, that she should submit to any job as long as it pays something

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I think there have been crash outs in every generation honestly. It’s just kind of weird we do this and hold them up for all to see and pick apart…

YES !! WHY?? You have to know it’s like a humiliation exercise??

seems like it's happening at an unprecedented scale today tho?
> Amid steep declines in homeownership, marriage and birth rates

tbh i don't really understand why anyone volunteers themselves to be in these articles,,

That guy’s parents bought him a house I think too…. 🤦🏼‍♀️ sigh

especially slam dunks like this one
> Harding entered law school to wait out the sluggish labor market, but emerged with $180,000 in student-loan debt.

lets borrow 6 figs in a down market and....hope? Has this ever worked? 

I think about my Gen A kids and the shock they are going to go through when they leave home and realize what it takes to give them the life they have now. They will leave college and start a 20 year grind to get back to the lifestyle they have in HS. The stories in this article seem to echo that a little, longing for something they had but no path or plan to get it.