Comments by "Rune of Svalbard" (@vladimirofsvalbard9477) on "Jordan B Peterson Clips"
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Aside from social issues, the number one reason why conservatives lose (especially with young people) is due to the repetitive economic banter.
"Get married, buy a home, work for 30+ years, pay into Social Security!"
I am 29 years old and I am one of the last of my age group to be buying homes. People even a few years behind me can't afford it!
I was fortunate enough to buy a home in Spring of 2020, get married, and have a child.
However, for younger people this is almost impossible with how much the US Dollar has been devalued over the last 40 years. The repercussions of Covid were that the devaluation of our living standards sped up by almost a decade in a short period of time.
Many young people saw their parent's marriages destroyed in the 2000s, they look at a $400k home as utterly impossible, and they KNOW they will never receive Social Security. All the while the interest sitting on their student loans will be nearly impossible to pay off should those loans resume.
People can't even afford to pay their loans currently while we are sitting at dangerous inflationary levels. If one mishap were to take place in the stock market, the inflation would temporarily drop and then soar to 20%+ percent; it will make June inflation of 9.1% look like a cake walk.
People are terrified of the economic repercussions we are up against. So when young people hear "work harder, get married, pull yourself up"; it just doesn't click with tens of millions of people. It truly feels like fighting against a tsunami sized tidal wave.
I can't exactly empathize with their situation because the money I earned and the timing of my lifestyle were impeccable. However, I'm fully aware of what they say and how they think. The American Dream that Boomers and Gen X peddle to people doesn't exist anymore.
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I'm a 29 year old man with a home, wife, child, and dog. I am one of those "Great Resignation" followers and could care less about 'maintaining the system' for at least the sake of the modernized world. Of course there are drawbacks to that type of thinking and unintended consequences.
I quit my job smack dab in the middle of Covid; June 2020. I was a truck driver making $70k a year; working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. In January of that year, we were asked to sign a form acknowledging that we would accept 8 days of unpaid vacation per year, instead of 13. Which was initially 20. We had 120 guys at the time and an average of 20 call-offs per day. I bought a home and then quit my job 6 months later.
I've since made a great living being a dad and working occasional gig/contract whenever I can find it. The wife also works part time in Healthcare. We are NOT struggling, despite the inflationary insanity.
K-12, High School, College, 45 years of work, and then retire and be happy (realistically depressed)? Is that really the meaning of life? To miss out on life with the promise that it will pay off in the last stage? I saw this trap the moment I entered the work-force at 18, but I decided to do the ropes from immense pressure I got from friends and family. I avoided the University trap and worked for FedEx, later Werner Ent; all to my parent's dismay. They were extremely disappointed to learn that I was making a lot of money, living in an apartment, and dating my (now wife).
They would have been more proud to have me gobble up 100K of debt and live at home until 40 being a loser. Which is want a substantial amount of Gen X parents do to their children. They live in a world of denial about the changing times and force their 1980s religion onto their kids and ruin their lives over it. The same thing has happened to my younger sister, who will be $130,000 deep in student debt over a Bachelor of Design, smh.
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