EdibleKnife
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You cant generalize though. Even if they spend shit on that, it doesnt matter when during my parents time housing was far cheaper than nowadays.
Every craftsman could buy land and property. Nowadays craftsmen here in Germany couldnt afford that and even university graduates earn less compared to 20 years ago and have to pay more for housing.
This. By painting this as a, "millennials just don't know how to manage money" idea, people start to ignore or outright deny that it's inherently more expensive to afford necessities today than it was 20 or 40 years ago. Too many people are focused on their bootstrap ideology and all it takes is to hear "27 year old spends $X on dumb shit" for them to dig into the belief that all millennials are only poor and struggling because their generation is a bunch of unprepared bums rather than the fact that there are a multitude of young people who are trying to adjust to a world and market that isn't adjusted to the reality of the modern job market and wage earning.