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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Re #2: I actually find the guy the most contemptible. He's clearly some sort of hedonistic party animal who is single, not due to lack of first dates, but general irresponsibility that lands one in 200K of law school debt due to a mixture of phoned-in career planning and sense of entitlement to a white collar job. You're right though that men don't tend to hate on men, but as SBF once said about Shakespeare: the Bayesian priors are damning. 🫣

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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…

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