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Why are we calling these “milestones?” These are economic choices that were once expectations. Expectations that are no longer realistic, and can no longer be expected. These are NOT indicators of someone’s “success” at life.
This article is not particularly well written, but the four milestones they mention are: 1) moving out of one's parents' home, 2) getting a job, 3) getting married and 4) having a child. The fifth one seems to be the completion of education.
Thank you! Headline said 5, took to the end of the post to only show 4 with no mention of the 5th one. I almost thought it was written by AI.
1 it was too expensive to move out and honestly without the added income I provided my parents would have lost their house on multiple occasions
2 I got one the fall after I graduated
3 this one took awhile
4 lol no. Never. Children are the worst. I should know, I used to be one.
No children here with how fucked up things are. Only downside is no clue who will take care of us when we get too old. Maybe Winchester or Smith and Wesson…
I don't need anyone to take care of me when I'm older. I decided that my retirement plan will be extreme sports. Base jumping? Wing suit? Steel toeing cops in the nuts? So many thrilling choices! Whatever happens, happens.
Gotta be thorough about it. Full body paralysis would be a suboptimal outcome.
Ideally I would have a wing suit and I would do a loop de loop into the side of a mountain. I've been fortunate enough to have had the time to reflect on good memories in my life and I want to go out living purely in the moment.
But as with all plans I've ever made it life, it most likely will not happen. I'll go out in a completely unexpected and unplanned way. Probably in a ridiculous way too. Sadly it won't be a story I'll be able to share that time but that's just how it goes.
I just hope MAID is a thing society is okay with then
As I say, somebody's getting a blowjob on my 60th, and it's not gonna be me.
Yeah, I'll just chase the dragon off into the sunset when it's my time
Instead of having kids I have decided to go on good vacations every year.
AND I don’t have a bunch of grey hair. It’s great!
I honestly couldn't imagine having a child or owning a home unless I had a job that paid at least 50k/year ($25/hr). -That's while living in this part of the country. If I were in a coastal state I wouldn't consider it for less than 75k/year. Unfortunately, that's not in the cards.
Yes, money is important and salaries aren't enough.
As far as having children goes, I think it's more than an economic effect. We also just have a change in personal goals, supported by a change in social expectation.
Choosing to start families at a later stage or just plain choosing not to at all, is sometimes a personal choice independently of economic pressures.
It should be noted that the article title is actually "Fewer young people are meeting these 5 milestones typically associated with adulthood", and even it's first sentence acknowledge these milestones as a mix of economic and family milestones - "Fewer young adults are achieving economic and family milestones typically associated with adulthood..."
Last I looked, we weren't running out of humans, so the drop-off in breeding is mostly a capitalist concern, or a bigoted concern that the wrong humans are breeding.
This is just a case where the metrics are utterly flawed.
At least a couple of those supposed "milestones" have nothing to do with a person's maturity, and I even know a few people who's immaturity helped them hit those milestones earlier than most.
Thanks Captain Obvious!
Maybe because cunts fucked the world?
At least I'm 2 for 4, thats slightly comforting