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[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I fully expect millennials and gen Z to go full grillpill when they have more stake in the status quo (401k, house, kids, career goals, etc).

so when do you think millennials are going to have those things? the youngest millennials are 27 and the oldest are 42. will we be able to afford housing and kids and have careers any day now?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I've never even had avacado toast and i still can't own a house!

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

About half of American millennials own homes, based on a quick Google search. I agree it’s bad for far too many younger Americans, but they also aren’t a uniform bloc all facing the same material conditions.

Possessing this or that particular stake in the status quo was not the essential point. The point was that having any stake at all tends to deradicalize people over time. This is all the more true when someone’s anticapitalism has no leftist theoretical basis or social organization.

[–] D3FNC@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Own a home or own a mortgage ? Not the same thing