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[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago

It’s only a matter of time before the cat gets swapped out for a plant.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Damn Gen Beta and their plants. They could afford a house if they didn't have 3 whole plants to take care of!

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 months ago

human children → pets → plants → cut flowers → virtual pets do a comeback → adult imaginary friends

[-] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

SMH you think we going to be able to afford plants in the future! It's going to be the parents as pets:*(..

[-] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago

We're gonna bring back virtual pets because real pets are too expensive

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

EA will fix that. With microtransactions your digital pets can be equally expensive! (If not moreso!)

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No they need the cat, otherwise their car might get rats/roaches, then who would want to be roommates?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 77 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What happened to the 2000s?

Al'so, we're apo'strophe's on 'sale or 'something?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 58 points 6 months ago

Damn, and we all agreed to never forget

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

The 1990s: Correct

The '90s: Also correct as you're abbreviating the above.

The 90's: Incorrect but I understand the mix-up.

The 1990's: Totally wrong in every way

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

what if we are using a possessive form instead of plural?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Then you write The 90s' like you would with other words ending in S. "The 90's" would be like writing "The new's"

It's referring to the years between 1990 and 1999 so the 90s is already plural.

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The 2000s would be hard to sum up in a single photo without breaking the narrative. The family would be well off, getting fat and buying a McMansion. They would likely be just as culpable for the issues affecting those later decades.

2000 - 2008: economic boom combined with lots of deregulation on Wall Street led to the creation of almost a trillion in off the books derivative investments which were repackaged and sold off so much that they became toxic despite looking fine on paper, and made you money. Keeping the whole thing going led to something of an 8% increase in subprime lending.

Combine that with lots of folks from the 90s rampantly speculating on house sales, creating a housing bubble as they try to get rich by raising prices and flipping houses. Mix in even more deregulation and you get a Great Recession setting back a generation, in 2008. All while the folks who pushed the deregulation turn around and blame it on a president who wasn’t even inaugurated until 2009.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Thanks, Obama.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The 90's were 20 years ago, we don't talk about the 2000's

[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

The 2000s are 20 years away, the 90s are 30 years away by now.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

What are you abbreviating with that apostrophe?

The (19)'90s or just The 90s.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

They got 9/11'd

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Should be cookie cutter condos.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

The American dream is to be a middle man who takes a cut while adding nothing, to have a captive consumer (sometimes literally), or to be to big to fail or regulate.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

I'll take all of them together

[-] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 months ago

2000’s, like Gen X, completely ignored.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Nothing happened in the 2000s. That decade was "woo it's the future!" Then "oh no 9/11!" Then BAM! 2010!

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

And now we are permanently in 2019

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, it was kind of turbulent? Artificially inflated so people thought they got homes, then they suddenly didn't.

Its pulling misleading outliers from your data set. In meme form.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Average new home in 1960: 1300 sq/ft. (without garage)

Average new home in 2020: 2600 sq/ft (+ 2-3 car garage)

Average household size in 1960: 3.4

Average household size: 2.5

Number of households with 2 or more vehicles in 1960: 22%

Number of house holds with 2 or more vehicles in 2020: 59%

Ya'll, I don't know how else to explain this - the reason home ownership and cost of living is expensive is very straightforward. We don't build or accept smaller homes, we don't build enough of them, and we spend far more on vehicles.

Edit: if you want affordable housing, advocate (aka vote, canvas, donate) for candidates in your local government that support -

  • Zoning and regulations that benefits smaller home sizes.
  • Zoning that permits denser and missing middle development (for less need for vehicles)
  • Zoning that permits mixed use development.
  • Land Value Tax
  • Reduced or eliminated parking minimums
  • Bike infrastructure.
[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago

Okay so I'm with you on walkable cities being good, but everything else you said is offensively fucking wrong.

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Care to elaborate on what you felt was offensively fucking wrong?

You agree with walkable cities but:

  • Want large houses (needing more space, spreading things out)?
  • Don't want denser zoning?? (How are ya gonna walk somewhere with everything spread out)
  • Hate the idea of a corner shop. (Love driving just to get a few small food items)
  • Dislike taxes (how will you pay for your infrastructure? There's a reason US cities are crumbling, they're too spread out, so land taxes don't cover the maintenance bills)
  • Like carparks
  • Hate bikes
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[-] copd@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Don't just say "it's fucking wrong" without explaining yourself. It kills debates and it just looks like you're salty and took the comment personally

Take some time and continue the conversation

[-] PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

they presented exactly as much proof as you did

[-] copd@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Proof? Who's talking about proof?

You've twisted this topics conversation entirely, elaboration doesn't necessarily infer referencing up your scientific sources. You can explain yourself, which I did more than the other comment.

Anecdotes are okay but if you're disagreeing with someone actually try to explain why, don't just say they're wrong.

But thanks for your input.

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[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Theres a reason I did that. Observe (in another reply, just a minute; steam making typing awkward)

[-] vfye@toast.ooo 4 points 6 months ago
[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Oh. I hadn't considered that. Gimme a minute.

[-] keegomatic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is a gross oversimplification and in part just illogical. Yes, new small homes would help everyone out. But compare house prices to purchasing power then vs. now. It’s absolutely incomparable to 1960. That’s not because of square footage. And car ownership as an input here makes no sense. The costs of a downpayment and mortgage are simply out of reach for many people irrespective of car count. I say all this as a homeowner.

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[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago

The apartment in the 90s is possibly the most expensive place to live. Also, this skips the 00s.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago
[-] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure that's why 80's father is stoked.

[-] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

2030s tent colonies aka homeless camps

[-] extant@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I think you mean prison towers because being homeless is illegal.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Its only illegal if they can enforce it. And by this I mean fire bottles, car bombs, and whatever else ya can chuck at the police.

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Honestly you could put 1930s there and it would work the same

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Fantastic work, especially the hairdos of Woejack and Tradwife are spot-on. Best meme I've seen in many months.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

I mean, I agree with the underlying complaint, but with the last example makes this come off as a bad faith right wing meme trying to blame the collapse of middle America on "woke" millennials instead of the inexcusable suppression of wages for decades and the greed-flation in every aspect of our lives.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

How?

Also the last panel would be zoomers the millennials are the ones that could afford to rent still.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I get the point but not entirely accurate. The 90s and 00s were the golden age of McMansions.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Did their children die and they just didn’t age? Did they breed for food? That sounds pretty sustainable. Hmmm. Consuming children for eternal life and being green at the same time!

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