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lot of people don't have time to cook because they're working two or more jobs. lot of people aren't saving for retirement because they can't fucking afford to
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90% of headlines about millennial spending habits could be replaced by "millennials fucked over by baby boomers who refuse to raise the minimum wage or invest in education and childcare"
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with like 2 paragraphs in the article explaining that the writer doesn't understand that internet/cell phone access is generally necessary to find and keep jobs and that even if we stopped spending any money on any fun things ever we still wouldn't be able to fucking own houses
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and also how they think that poor people should be held to privation-based standards of virtue while the ultrawealthy continue to leech profits out of underpaid workers and/or bust unions
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it's been a while since i've had a good ol' "millennial spending" thinkpiece to shit on
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usually it's just 50 tweets about how i'm *almost* angry enough at bari weiss to develop psychic powers and accidentally set my curtains on fire
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anyway, have a great night everybody, and, as always, fuck the police
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Numbers of hours worked, access to kitchen equipment, proximity of a supermarket, transportation options for groceries... employer support of retirement funds, relative cost of rent, commute distance...
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The real cool thing is that Boomers had most of their retirement savings subsidized by a variety of state and state-like actors! It's why they're desperate for you to buy their houses so they can do one last flip.
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