"In many ways, this age group is in a better place financially, on average, than their parents were at this age. The problem is that they don’t seem to know it."

Yeah? What ways are those?

Is this one?

“Our expectations are so much higher today,” says Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Maryland whose research focuses on children and family. “Generations before us didn’t expect to have large houses where every kid had a bedroom and there were multiple vacations.”

We just shouldn't expect to have mansions for our many many kids? Fuck you. I don't have kids, am experienced in a well paying career and I can't afford a house at all unless I go somewhere that I can't find the kind of work I do in. That's not even considering the lack of kids many of us have, because we can't afford them.

Fuck this out of touch shit. I'm so sick of these people who already got theirs telling the people who can't do the same that it's their own fault. This fucking article goes further than that suggesting it's worse than our own fault because we're better situated somehow.

Avocado toast ass argument. This country needs more guillotines.

How are so many people still on Xitter?

Have you thought about buying a house instead of an avocado???

Most of us just realized long ago the game is fucking rigged so what's the fuckin point.

Imagine renting or getting a mortgage in this shitty society with no job security.

In Capitalist America, milestones bypass you!

lol. buying a house? having kids? I can barely afford to EAT, let alone bring another person into the world.

Pretty funny that the article and the reply both implicitly assume adulthood is owning things or doing certain activities. Adulthood is being able to navigate life through adversity. Every young person I know treading water with unstable income and no support is way more 'grown up' than boomers complaining about having to cut back on retirement cruises.

Whoa, I feel like I jumped back in time 10 years when these corporate meat-riders were blaming us for their beer businesses failing while simultaneously telling us the reason we're struggling is that we're being irresponsible with our money. The "arrested development" is the USA's disillusionment with capitalism.

The WSJ is a right wing rag, unfit for toilet paper. No one should be surprised they publish half wit musings.

I didn't skip my loan payment, I bypassed it. You've made me bypass numerous meals over the years.

The only growing emotionally that needs to happen is for the American people to grow some class consciousness.

A murdoch tabloid says as much. its for boomer/older gen x consumption.

The milestones have become outcroppings on a sheer rock face. Gripping like hell to one while searching for the next one. Stretching, grasping, searching, missing.

No rope.

It’s because we’re all accepting this unfair system even though the social contract has been broken. The first step is to stop accepting this system.

And anyone with the potential for a future, destroyed it all as soon as they became an adult by taking on a mountain of student loan debt, only to be told that the career they paid a fortune for is being largely replaced by AI.

The answer is so easy:: make doing things affordable, and people will do things... anything, it doesn't matter. Do you want people to have kids? Make having kids affordable. This is unregulated capitalists' fault. Plain and simple.

I wasn’t going to have kids and become poor just to feed some stupid orphan-crushing machine.

This image popped into my mind upon reading the headline; I hope my meaning comes across:

WSJ motto: always be punching down.