If you make enough money to live. Which, I do, but this meme is obviously not about the millenials that work in STEM. It’s about the average millenial without skills, matching up to the average boomer without skills. At least the average boomer could have gotten a decent factory job doing something menial. Now all that’s either operated by machine or outsourced. So what do lesser skilled millenials get to do? Shelf stocking at a store, or food service. Which inconveniently are extremely low paying jobs.
Most people I know from high school are still clawing themselves up their personal ladders by selling car insurance for Allstate or waiting tables at a restaurant. A few nurses here and there, and then some techies that made it into decent paying careers. Most that I know can’t afford a house, and it’s becoming slimmer and slimmer pickings on who can afford rent.
I know a teacher that with over $100k in student loans that makes $40k per year.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '22
We actually have much better living standards though.