“Keeping up with your parents' lifestyle in your 20s is financially impossible now”
Agree
- Housing costs have massively outpaced wages
- College debt didn't exist for them
- Single income supported families back then
- Economic conditions have fundamentally changed
Disagree
- They also struggled early in careers
- Lifestyle inflation affects all generations equally
- Technology jobs pay more than before
- Nostalgia makes their past seem easier
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