miyajimosachi:

sorcyress:

pervocracy:

I wonder if one of the causes of animosity towards “entitled millennials” is that many millennials are poor people who look rich.  There’s this growing class of people who wear nice clothes, have fancy new electronic gadgets, go out to eat nice food… and will never own a home or have a retirement fund or put a child through college.

It’s so easy to say “if you cut down on the avocado toast maybe you could save up”, and so hard to accept that a house these days is fifty thousand avocado toasts, and that’s why so many of us have just given up.  We don’t treat ourselves because we think the world will take care of us when we get older; we treat ourselves because we know it won’t.  Might as well feel and look good on the way down.

Good post. Good logic. Like, if I can save 10k a year by scrimping and being as miserly as possible, and therefore be able to buy a house in 30 years…yeah, I’m just gonna spend my 30 years being happy instead. Like, I’m definitely putting some money into my savings, but what’s the point when everything is so unattainably expensive?

This is basically my thinking, now. I just do whatever I can afford to do because I don’t plan on being able to retire or own a home. I can barely rent.