thejewishprincess:

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aristi-cthonia:

fyeahqueermusic:

aquapunk:

batchix:

awesome-everyday:

shorterexcerpts:

thecallus:

theatlantic:

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

1. Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding
2. Buy a house
3. Buy a new car
4. PLAN to have children
5. Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

There’s also the fact that buying a house ties you to one spot.  Jobs are so transient, you have to be able to move for a new job in case you lose your current one.  the lady who does our taxes can’t understand why we don’t own a house.  We’ve moved four times in the last six years.  once across the states to california, then from LA to San Jose, then a short move to RC because my husband’s job moved to San Francisco.  Can you imagine if we were trying to buy and sell houses in those places every time we moved?  It’d be insane!

Yeah those hipsters in the picture don’t look frustrated and trapped enough.

I love how older, well-off people think that these are things we’re just choosing to do, man. Because being broke/unemployed, and having a house’s worth of debt by the age of 22 is totally the popular lifestyle thing these days. So totally nobody else’s fault but our own misguided whims.

The rage this makes me feel every single time I see it pop up. Personally, I don’t want a car or a house, they’re just not for me, but the fact that people actually think this is a lifestyle decision for many people is so fucking infuriating I feel like my head is going to explode. And that fucking illustration. FUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK.

I’m going to go lie down.

i would love to buy my own house

i would love to buy a new car

i would love to have the money to do those things

because maybe it’d mean i would already have been in college

lindsaychrist:

stfuconservatives:

Usually I have something clever to say when a right-winger makes terrible victim-blaming statements like this, but Donald Trump has rendered me silent with astonishment. Sexual assaults in the military… are the fault of… the women who wanted to be in the military and the leaders who allowed them to do that? Because all men are just rapists waiting for an opportunity? Sexual assault is inevitable when men and women are together… so women are the ones who should have to leave? WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK. Remember when Fuckface von Clownstick thought he could be president? Donald Trump is the best argument against capitalism out there.

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18-15n-77-30w:

naycakes:

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