78 points

My neighbour is almost 60 and she still lives with her mum! (And when she married the husband moved with them.)

I think that itā€™s fine to still live with family. As long as nobody is a leech or a control freak.

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I think the only reason this is a thing is because houses are prohibitively expensive for about 60% of the population right now. So your options are

  1. rent
  2. wait until your parents are gone and take their house

Most people are much better off with a house from their parents than paying some rich douches mortgage for them.

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12 points

I forgot to mention, this is in South America. As far as I know, cross-gen households used to be the norm here, and mortgaging your home isnā€™t common, because thereā€™s simply less social pressure to leave your parentsā€™ home if you canā€™t afford a house.

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7 points

And historically, that was expected and normal, and having your own place was unusual. The oldest usually took care of the parents and the rest moved out. Thatā€™s SL still very much a thing in Korea, a very developed country where people could probably afford to live separately.

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2 doesnā€™t work in aggregate, because your parents will functionally sell off their house to generate funds to pay for an assisted living facility, or all the medical debts they incur in old age.

You may technically still inherit the house, but youā€™ll also inherit all the reverse mortgage payments.

Sure, there will be exceptions to this, but in general?

Poor millenials and zoomers are going to stay poor and get poorer.

They largely will not be getting a generational inheritance or wealth transfer.

Every article you read about a generational inheritance also neglects to mention that half of the wealth that is supposedly set to be inherited by millenials/zoomers, from boomers, is concentrated in the hands of about 1% of boomers.

Oh right, not to mention that by the time your parents are dead, itā€™ll be impossible to get homeowners insurance for something like 1/3 to 1/2 of most houses, as climate change intensifies, disasters become more and more common, and home insurers just give up, as they currently are in Florida and California.

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5 points

Oh shit, never thought of it like that. So like basically everyone who doesnā€™t have rich parents is truly fucked

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2 points

you forgot the secret third option of DIY housing.

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As long as they have healthy relationship and they have their own job to not be dependent on her everything is fine here.

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45 points

The ā€œbombing brown peopleā€ service.

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24 points

Honestly masturbating causes less harm to other people. Anon is doing better.

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13 points

Always be improving.

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35 points

I mean. His life is better.

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19 points

Mr. Married with Kids probably isnā€™t even allowed to look at Harley Quinn, poor guy.

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6 points

Unironically this. Different people have different live goals.

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8 points

Not totally sure being 38 living with mom is a good life goal but I get your meaning lol

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2 points

Maybe he likes his mom, has a great career, and is a fantastic caregiver for her.

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29 points

People donā€™t understand soldiers. You get discipline, confidence, structure, and community, but it is just a job done by normal people. I know door kickers that are just chill normal folks and one that refuses to own a gun. I know a Ranger that worked against governments and trained people to rise up against their oppressors, that fell for trump (and I miss that dude a lot, he is genuinely a good guy and was a hero of mine until he went MAGAā€¦he fell for the deception and I couldnā€™t pull him out. I get real bad ā€œleft a man behindā€ in the pit of my stomach when I bring him upā€¦fuck.). I know an MP woman, that was in and active for 10 years, that is an adorable little goth chick that works at the local hippy co-op store.

If you work around people, especially a factory or blue collar job, look around, those are soldiers. Dumb ones, lazy ones, ones that should be doing something great but arenā€™t. it is a little less equivalent when it comes to combat roles, but you still have a spread, it isnā€™t like the fantasy portrays.

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ā€œTrained people to rise up against their oppressorsā€

Wow he trained ISIS?

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1 point

Nope

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Its just a regular job where you are trained to kill other people.

If it wasnā€™t condoned by the government, they would be considered trained murderers.

Oh, but it is to fight the trained murderers of other nations!

So they are the solution to a problem they cause themselves.

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2 points

Thatā€™s humanity, going strong for thousands of years off the backs of soldiers.

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Its just a regular job where you are trained to kill other people.

listen bro, animals kill animals all the time, animals fight over territory, the military is just a mechanized extension of that, idk what you want me to tell you, but this is literally just the natural consequence of the industrial revolution.

At least now we arenā€™t killing millions of people, only hundreds of thousands.

Also, this is falling under what i like the call the ā€œravine fallacyā€ where it only takes one person falling into a ravine for everybody to get completely fucked.

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A small % are trained to, and actually do, kill. Which isnā€™t the point of the comment anyway (except your comment proving the point being made). Also, your last line is incorrect.

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Yes. They are people. Probably nice people. Iā€™m sure thereā€™s bunch of cops who are also nice people. Doesnā€™t matter. The problem is systemic. ACAB includes military.

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ā€œI canā€™t believe someone would be so stupid as to fall for trumpā€

ā€œEveryone who works in a factory is dumb and lazy and should be doing something betterā€

Wonder why he got elected.

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ā€œI canā€™t believe someone would be so stupid as to fall for trumpā€

ā€œEveryone who works in a factory is dumb and lazy and should be doing something betterā€

Wonder why he got elected.

That isnā€™t how quotation works. Reading comprehension failed you on the second point.

I very much can believe people are stupid enough to fall for trumpā€™s scams. Our education system is in shambles. For example, imagine an adult that doesnā€™t understand quotations.

As for the second ā€œquotationā€, I said nothing about ā€œEveryone who works in a factoryā€. I could have also included some positive examples, as those parallels exist as well. I assumed that was incredibly obvious to the point of not having to be stated outright, and would be excess verbage that didnā€™t directly communicate my point. My comment was more of an indictment of SOME soldiers. People ignorantly put them all up on pedestals, but if you look around your workplace, you are going to see a few of those shitty people, you get the same among the enlisted. It isnā€™t ā€œeveryoneā€ by any stretch, just like in a factory. They should be judged by their merits and qualities not their job title. Some, maybe even a lot, do earn it, but not all and not by default. Idolatry isnā€™t healthy, look at those maga fools for an example why.

To your last point; again, imagine an adult that canā€™t parse information, makes only negative assumptions, doesnā€™t know how to use quotations. That level of ignorance, persecution fetishism, and lack of critical thinking is a product of a poor education system and the poorly educated and fact-inoculated is how we have so many trump supporters.

Hope that helps clear things up. Have a great day.

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28 points

Harley Quinn is a hottie šŸ˜

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Lots of rule 34 too. I mean, thatā€™s what I hear. How would I know? Geez! Get off my case!

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