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Prices. I feel like my grandfather (WW2 vet) right now, complaining about prices.
I moved out and paid my own way in the 90s which has irrevocably impacted my opinion on pricing. And subscriptions.
This is interesting to me. I had relatives go through college in the late '60s and early '70s. They couldn't understand why I had to work so many hours to afford (and have time) to even attempt part-time college. That was the early '90s. I can not imagine having to deal with this shit now. Add in the future job prospects and the current political environment... Damn.
Edit: For anyone who doesn't feel like following the link, here's a bit from it:
This is the best response here, in my opinion. I wish I could show the younger generation how my grandparents lived (for better and for worse. Legal racial segregation was still in place). I feel like people would act differently if they knew what had been taken from them.
as someone who's 27 and never went to college because it simply didn't seem a smart investment anymore -- get a very expensive (and only getting more expensive) piece of paper that no longer guarantees you a decent job as of like the 2000s, no thanks -- I've largely just accepted I'm going to live and die poor in the new American Reich. Possibly lucky enough to end it myself eventually, possibly via being disappeared for being a dissident, depends on how far this all goes. Either way, the American dream is long dead, and my entire generation and younger is in various degrees of "fucked", from partly to completely to totally and utterly.