r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Sea-Preference8740 • 11d ago
Boomer Article New York Post
Im not gen Z, but man the boomers at New York post just love posting shit like this. Because yea this is the sole reason why we can't purchase a house lmao
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u/ooeyxgooeyxgirlie 11d ago
Funny how boomers could afford both concerts and a home.
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u/SoggyBottomSoy 11d ago
All on a single income.
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u/ThrashingDancer888 11d ago
As a milkman
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u/freeman687 11d ago
Part time
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u/puppycatisselfish 11d ago
With benefits
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u/goose_gladwell 11d ago
And 10 kids
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u/Ukvemsord 11d ago
A milkman with only ten kids has just started their route.
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u/Sadboy_looking4memes Millennial 11d ago
Ancestry dot com revealed all kinds of surprises decades later.
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u/floofienewfie 11d ago
Uphill both ways. In the snow.
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u/vandon Gen X 11d ago
And a pension
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u/bearkrumbs 11d ago
My work had a pension, one of the reasons I accepted work there. Wouldn’t you know the boomers in charge killed the pension, and anyone who was Gen X or younger was kicked out and forced to go to 401k only. My pension check will buy a 6 pack or maybe an 1/8th of weed once I get mine. Thanks boomers!
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u/replicantcase 11d ago
Since we're talking about the milkman, with 6 different wives, and he ain't married.
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u/HeathenHumanist 11d ago
Like YOUR MOM
(my apologies, my preteen son is heavy in the "ur mom" phase right now, so that was an unavoidable response from me)
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u/theglobalnomad 11d ago
Prepare yourself for the long haul. I'm almost 40, and I'm still in that phase.
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u/bearkrumbs 11d ago
Almost 50 and Your Mom! Mines dead now so the comebacks don’t hurt anymore. Also… deez nuts!
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u/Frothydawg 11d ago
When I was a kid growing up in the 80’s, I distinctly remember people who worked for years at grocery stores. Cashiers, butchers, etc.
These were - at one time - union jobs that paid a living wage; you could own a home, have a car, vacation, and raise a family comfortably.
Fast forward to today, and wouldn’t ya know it - those have since been rebranded “sTaRtER jObS” that pay subsistence wages. And anyone who questions it is an entitled, lazy, communist so-and-so.
The boomers got theirs, kicked the ladder out from under them, and condemned generations to a lifetime of toil.
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u/chevalier716 Xennial 11d ago
Not to mention they didn't have Ticketmaster to contend with back in the 70s and 80s jacking prices up through the roof, so they could see the Led Zep for $37 in today's money and Led Zep would be better paid for it than artists are now.
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u/ConsciousVegetable99 11d ago
I saw led zeppelin for $5! I remember the first concert that had tix for $20 and I was like what the hell
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u/Scorp128 Gen X 11d ago
Back in 2003, I had general admission floor tickets for the Summer Sanitarium Tour. I think the lineup included Metallica, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Deftones, and Mudvayne along with others. I only paid $60 for my ticket, including the junk fees that had just started being tacked on. If that concert happened today, a majority of fans wouldn't be able to attend as I'm sure tickets would be going for $200+ a piece minimum for nosebleed seats. I'm sure they charge premium for floor "seats" now too.
Those days are long gone. Anyone would would be worth paying to see is going to cost $1,000 a ticket. I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never be able to see my favorite artists again live in concert. I'll have to wait for the geezer shows in a few years when these bands can play your local park amphitheater again.
They are acting like "kids" these days are going to concerts with any sort of regularity like they did when they went to concerts. Sorry boomers, their love for coffee, avocado toast, and an occasional concert is not the problem here. That is not what is preventing them from buying a home. Boomers do not understand the time-value of money and have no clue as to basic economics. Shocker.
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u/chevalier716 Xennial 11d ago
Not the point of the post, but I saw Summer Sanitarium tour too.
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u/Scorp128 Gen X 11d ago
That was a great show! I saw it at the Pontiac Silverdome (Metro Detroit area, Michigan) when that still existed.
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u/camelslikesand 11d ago
Part of that better pay is that people bought music back then. Streaming services don't pay for dick so musicians have to make money on live shows.
Back then, the tour supported the new record. Now the record supports the tour.
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u/unretrofiedforyou 11d ago
O no it’s def not decades of boomers ‘selling out” and ruining the music business with profit driven greed no /s
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u/Bulleveland 10d ago
It’s both. The record industry captured all the profits from physical media sales, artists had to lean more towards revenue from touring, and the internet just accelerated the trends
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u/emptyfish127 11d ago
By showing up and asking to get in for free and no job they managed to go to 100s of concerts in their 20's. Still managed to own 3 homes before they are 60.
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u/Ok-Transportation127 11d ago
And are are now landlords still choking GenZs with extortionary rents.
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u/BeautifulArtichoke37 Gen X 11d ago
As a shoeshine
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u/9-lives-Fritz 11d ago
My dad paid for housing, college, and a car on grocery store salary. Then the 80’s came and wiped us out. Got me on reduced lunch. I don’t think we’ve ever recovered. This was legitimately due to the policies of Reagan, continued by the GOP. Don’t look now but they’re coming for your social safety net!
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u/wrongseeds 11d ago
I saw Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. Great seats $20. So yeah shit was a lot more affordable. Twenty bucks will hardly buy you a beer now days.
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u/thissexypoptart 11d ago
It’s because they weren’t splurging! Splurging is the problem! We hate splurging!
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u/DearToe5415 11d ago
That darn avocado toast making everyone broke
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u/mournfulmoo 11d ago
Fun fact: there is evidence to suggest consuming avocado while pregnant may decrease the baby’s future chances of food allergies.
Millennials like me were just looking out for our future kids when we ate all that avocado toast.
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u/thishyacinthgirl 11d ago
My daughter is going to be a superhuman, then. All those avocados I ate while pregnant boosted her immunity - at the cost of a vacation home! I hope she appreciates my sacrifice.
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u/smurb15 11d ago
Makes sense. If it can't help them right here and now then it must be against them if the way they believe
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u/Significant-Baby-748 11d ago
We have a human skidmark for president who’s a business “genius” that’s only gone bankrupt six times. He is either wittingly destroying the stock market and economy or tanking it through sheer ineptitude…but it’s the concert tickets.
This is Dave Ramsey level boomer logic and pearl clutching.
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u/hdhdhgfyfhfhrb 11d ago
Gen Z is spending money on things they can enjoy AND afford so they can have a small measure of happiness as they deal with the fact their adult lives will suck hard due to boomers sucking up all the good times and leaving them recessions, flat job wages, inability to afford homes, and a government which has routinely chosen to avoid doing anything to make things better for them.
Why is everything mutually exclusive with these people. As if a life where you can go to a concert and buy a home is so shocking. Boomers bought their $18k houses and spent $3 for Woodstock.
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u/Heavy-hit 11d ago
Because the mutual exclusivity generates generational divide instead of the obvious fact that newer generations are getting fucked in the ass with a sharded wooden stick.
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u/hdhdhgfyfhfhrb 11d ago
And also perpetuates the notion they’re getting that spoon for making bad choices and not through the fault of a shitty system.
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u/bp92009 11d ago
and not through the fault of a shitty system.
And the reason why boomers are desperate to believe that, is because anything else would mean that they are wrong. That it is the selfish actions of boomers who did that to future generations.
That voting for the cutting of social services, affordable housing, minimum wage increases, and stopping any attempts to upzone their neighborhoods was a short-term, selfish choice.
Given that many boomers have seen voting conservative as a literal core of their identity, telling them that it was actually bad for everybody (even them, long term) is essentially directly attacking them.
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u/Heavy-hit 11d ago
That’s honestly the worst fucking part. Telling a generation that you raised to do the things you tell them to do to make better decisions.
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u/Photog1981 11d ago
Yeah..... they buy a $400 ticket to see Sabrina Carpenter.... that's definitely why they can't afford a 2 bed, 1 bath for $750k at 7%.
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u/dingos8mybaby2 11d ago
Which was a $400k home only 5 years ago but somehow nearly doubled in price since.
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u/bjisgooder 11d ago
Which was a $200k home 25 years ago.
You think wages and salaries have gone up in line with housing prices? Not by a long shot.
The fact that anyone tries to blame shit on avocado toast, Starbucks, or concert ticket "splurging" is just fucking rude and completely out of touch. Fuck those motherfuckers.
I'll fucking happily eat you.
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u/yellowspotphoto 11d ago
I feel so bad for anyone wanting to buy a home. We got very lucky and we were able to buy before the pandemic. (We're millennials.) There is no damn way we could afford the same house with the prices and interest rates now. It's all so fucked.
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u/Sindigo_ 11d ago
As a gen Z this is the first time I’ve heard a millennial admit to any form of economic privilege. Thank you for this moment.
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u/Gat0rJesus 11d ago
Not all of us had shit parents and not all of us find our degrees to be useless. But we feel bad for the majority that are suffering, and it’s still the boomers’ fault.
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u/kindoramns 11d ago
And it's also because we went through the same bs headlines 10 -15 years ago. Every day millennials were killing another industry. Today sit down dining, tomorrow housing, next Thursday is blood diamonds.
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u/WeathermanOnTheTown 11d ago
Millennials also killed the napkin industry. They just use gasp paper towels.
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u/spk92986 11d ago
It really depends on a lot. I'm 38 with a wife and 3 kids - I made awful money until 5 years ago, but we missed what little opportunity we had to buy a home and at this rate we'll never be able to afford one. It's insane.
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u/yellowspotphoto 11d ago
I'm an older millennial, and I know we had it hard back in my 20s. However, things have gotten much worse for young adults now. Rental prices are outta control along with most everything else.
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u/Firefly10886 11d ago
Even my parents couldn’t afford to buy the house they live in now. That’s been a real wake up call for my dad.
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u/FortuneTellingBoobs 11d ago
Only two thousand Sabrina Carpenter concerts and you could have afforded that house, son!
Please note: two thousand concerts later, the house price is now up to 1.5M
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u/DED2099 11d ago
Boomers fail to realize that millennials and Gen Z are opting to live life while they have it. If you ask both generations how they feel about life most will probably tell you the world as we know it is doomed and we might as well live while it lasts. I know so many people personally that have opted out of things like marriage, children, owning a home, etc. We aren’t out here doing this for no reason it’s because the world we have now and the world we see in the future look bleak. I would want nothing more than to have the American dream but it turns out all those times people told me I could be what I want and have what I want if I work for it were all wrong. I’ve worked since I was 14 yrs old, I’ve tried everything to run from poverty and I’m just barely outpacing it. Years of being comfy and safe have skewed the boomer perspective. They have no clue what it’s like to have to learn a million skills to land an entry lvl job you know you are going to hate. They have no idea what it feels like to make more money than your parents but still somehow be poor. They have no idea what it’s like to be in a sea of applicants begging for the same decent job. They don’t understand what it’s like to talk to your partner and opt out of having the children you always wanted because you can’t support them. I’m sorry for venting it’s just so aggravating. I feel like life is always kicking me back down the stairs when I come up. I’m tired of plotting and scheming to just have a little pleasure in life. I’m tired of waking up with the tightness of anxiety in my chest because I’m afraid I’ll get laid off. I’m tired of us younger people being judge for wanting some joy in life. They keep saying we are entitled, and you damn right we are, because we are human. No person needs to earn the right to enjoy their life. Rant over, I’m sorry, it’s been a tough day.
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u/TekieScythe Zillennial 11d ago
20 years ago a house double that size was $300k.
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u/thewartornhippy 11d ago
Even less when Boomers were growing up and when concert tickets for good seats were like $10. The cost of everything has skyrocketed and incomes have not kept up. Boomers had it way easier than everyone who came after them and it's getting worse every generation.
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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 Millennial 11d ago
Gen Z and millennials are spending money on experience rather than material objects. Life is to be enjoyed and the human experience is different for everyone.
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u/Cutiemuffin-gumbo 11d ago
Shid, fuck the experience, my ass needs more warhammer.
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u/Msteele315 11d ago
Adepticon previews coming up. Lol
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u/Priteegrl 11d ago
I would probably love Warhammer but I stay away for the sake of my wallet. I spend enough on D&D and MTG
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u/AnfieldRoad17 11d ago
I just signed up for the WH Grand Narrative. That's my version of "concerts."
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u/SolidSnake-26 11d ago
Fuck the ny post for starters but yes people spend money on experiences rather than material objects but the point is you used to be able to do both with income. This is more boomer shit. They really did fuck our generation.
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u/AdjNounNumbers 11d ago
This is the central problem all these articles are trying to avoid saying directly. Consumerism has been the central driving factor of the US economy since the invention of the assembly line. Mass production of everything requires mass consumption. Millennials (arguably Xennials like myself) turned that idea on its head. The boomers were the first full generation raised in the environment of convenience and buying shit they didn't really need. When we see an article of "millennials killed XYZ" (now I guess they're moving on to Gen Z) what they're really saying is that they're not buying enough shit. So we regurgitate the same points... The older generation could afford to do things and buy stuff and still afford the basic necessities. The economy got fucked and the younger generation had to pick between doing or consuming while trying to maintain a level of meeting basic needs. They picked experience over hauling a bunch of garbage from one apartment to the next and the older fucks that own everything are upset nobody wants to buy their useless garbage anymore. To add to that, the younger generation is purchasing less of the mass produced garbage and gravitating towards "artisan" goods - yet another thing the older generation likes to make fun of
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u/yellowspotphoto 11d ago
Yep. We spend money on fun experiences rather than useless shit that takes up space and collects dust. We love exploring new places and trying new things, I can't take stuff with me when I'm dead.
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u/OrickJagstone 11d ago
We are spending money on experiences because the world is so fucked. The only time I can get away from all the bullshit these boomers created is by doing something fun for a few hours.
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u/Significant_Quit_674 11d ago
Many of us don't exactly have money to spend to begin with.
As an apprentice or student you don't exactly make significant amounts of money beyond what you need to survive.
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u/PassThePeachSchnapps 11d ago
The house my mother paid $55K for in May 2003 (which time period was considered a bubble) sold last year for $225K. It’s in the middle of Bumfuck NO.
I tend to go to <$100 concerts. The down payment alone would mean I went to 450 of them.
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u/Alexsv95 11d ago
This article would assume people are going to like 100 shows a year to make it so they could never afford a house lol
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u/InstantClassic257 11d ago
Here we go! Gen-Z is getting the Millennial treatment now. I sure do love articles blaming an entire generation for just enjoying living while simultaneously making things worse for everyone. This is just the avocado toast and lattes bullshit all over again.
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u/smailskid 11d ago
Omg Gen Z likes concerts? So I understand enjoying yourself even a little disqualifies you from homeownership? That’s pretty fucked.
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u/astrangeone88 11d ago
Yeah but the old fogies forgot they also went to concerts, drank beer and could own a home without saving 5 - 6 years of their earnings for it.
Oh how dare they spend $500 - $1000 on a concert with a musician they like when houses start at 750 K and have property tax from hell meanwhile jobs are offering flat wages...
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u/Blue387 Millennial 11d ago
The NY Post sucks
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u/Square-Emergency-531 11d ago
The whole point of the post is to help conservatives blame everything on non-conservatives. Everything uses misleading framing and occasionally just makes things up to fuel resentment of young people/ minorities/ anyone else the foxosphere hates today.
Too bad the Washington Post is now going the way of the oligarchy too these days. Too few papers are willing to question billionaires these days.
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u/steve-eldridge Gen X 11d ago
Ironically, never discussed by said boomers is that they are the ones listing their houses for 5x the price they paid. Greed drives their valuations.
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u/cricketeer767 11d ago
I thought it was lattes, avocado coast and craft beer?
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u/StarintheShadows 11d ago
That’s why Millennials can’t afford a house. Apparently Gen Z can’t because of concerts.
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u/cricketeer767 11d ago
Ah, got it. I can't keep track of all the boomer criticisms of us youngish folk.
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u/mustardwulf 11d ago
It sure isn’t the $250,000 houses with prices jacked up to $450,000-$600,000
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u/Silent-Juggernaut-76 11d ago
That article is good clickbait regardless of the falsehoods it contains.
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u/summizzles 11d ago
They're spending that money on things like pricey concerts because even if they didn't they still couldn't afford a house so it's like fuck I may as well. These people are so out of touch.
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u/MarcheMuldDerevi 11d ago
The New York Post is good for funny headlines and seeing Piers Morgan blow a gasket about how we are all a bunch of Commie woke bitches. It is not a real newspaper.
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u/ExiledUtopian 11d ago
WTF do I know? Im an elder millennial and haven't had avocado toast or Starbucks in months... maybe years.
Guess I'm poor'ing wrong.
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u/Radiant_Classroom509 11d ago
Gen z has an unemployment level of over 9%. That’s recession levels for them. Shits hard. Who cares if they want to go to a concert.
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u/PhantomMuse05 11d ago
Millennials bought too much avocado toast, and Gen Z bought too many concert tickets. It's nice to know the next generation went up in the world a little though.
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u/Heavy-hit 11d ago
Tickets are really expensive, but maybe this should read, "since they know they can't afford a home, they are trading comfortable living for experiences until things get better."
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u/benport727 11d ago
$200 for a concert ticket or a $4,000 mortgage… I don’t think we’re talking about apples to apples here
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u/SpecificJunket8083 11d ago
Oh FFS. These articles are so stupid and condescending. I’m GenX and could go to a concert for $20. I could buy my first house for $45k at the age of 20. Life is stupidly expensive now. People are not buying houses because home prices are out of reach for most young people, through no fault of their own. Wages haven’t increased at the rate of cost of living. Educational costs are out of control.
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u/External_Progress151 11d ago
Even if I skipped my concerts… I’m not even close to being able to afford a home. More boomer click bait
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u/Kimmalah Millennial 11d ago
I haven't gone to a concert or done much of anything in years other than work and pay bills. I'm definitely never owning a home unless my brother takes pity and lets me keep our parent's house once we inherit it. And that's assuming they don't have to sell it off to satisfy Medicaid requirements like my grandparents had to do.
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u/livin_la_vida_mama 11d ago
Who cares what other people do with their own money? As others have said, some folk prioritize experience over material possessions anyway, house prices are INSANE and even if you live like a dang monk it's still almost impossible to save enough money. So why not have some fun instead? God forbid people enjoy themselves instead of striving to live a life identical to their parents, 2 houses down from their parents.
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u/DrtRdrGrl2008 11d ago
GenX here and I don't think I paid over $25 to see Madonna in the 80s. Madonna. So yeah, there's a little bit of inflation and greed at play here. And middle men selling overpriced tickets.
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u/Pleasedontbeadick15 11d ago
They can’t afford a home so they are saying “fuck it, I might as well buy those concert tickets and enjoy my life.”
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u/MasterNerd4591 11d ago
The same boomers who believe this probably turn a blind eye towards buying excessive amounts of products from Trump. Doesn’t the average MAGA enthusiast spends thousands of $$$ buying these wares?
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u/CaptSpacePants 11d ago
Lol, is this just a recycled article from 2010 and they replaced Millenials with gen z? Hahaha
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u/Lost_In_My_Sauce 11d ago
Why can't they understand that we're only doing it because we have no way to reasonably afford a home? Prices go up as we save that money, literally canceling out what we saved up for, and it keeps happening so you're damn right im going to do something to make this depressing ass existence a little more bearable.
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u/redbettafish2 11d ago edited 11d ago
Dammit quit publishing articles like this. They did this over and over and over again with Millennials. Just write the truth. We poor.
Edit: thank you for the award. This is actually my very first one!
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u/PotatoSmeagol Millennial 11d ago
I thought it was Millennials and avocado toast. Wonder what the excuse will be for gen alpha. Almost like there’s a systematic issue that fucked things up for younger generations or something.
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u/sweetmotherofodin 11d ago
call me crazy but a 2 bd 1 ba house with little to no yard shouldn’t be close to 300k. That’s why millennials and gen z aren’t buying houses.
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u/SLyndon4 11d ago
Or maybe—hear me out here—the price of homes has far outpaced salaries and even a down payment is beyond what people can save when rent eats up more than half of their monthly net pay. Or are Gramma & Grampa Boomer planning to sell their house for the same $67,000 they bought it at in the 70s?
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u/_AlwaysWatching_ 10d ago
If it wasn't for that one Chappell Roan show Chloe went to, she'd own a 6-bed, 8-bath house by now 😞 Kids these days
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u/amscraylane 10d ago
They can’t afford to buy a home, so they at least think maybe they can enjoy life by going to overpriced concerts?
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u/jtowndtk 10d ago
Imagine caring what people spend their money on
Boomers need trauma so they stop being so fucking nosey and righteous
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u/SomethingAbtU 10d ago
it's definitely the concert tickets, not the median home prices in some areas being 1.4 million (for a sh*t home with lots of repair work to do as well), property taxes, and stagnated wages for the past 30 years at least
so yeah it's the concert tickets for gen z like it was the avocado toast for us millennials that cost us home ownership
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u/catsareniceDEATH 10d ago
Ah cool, they've moved on from "millennials eating avocados", that's good at least. They'll never get to "boomers being boomers is the reason the financial and housing market is fucked" but at least they're acknowledging the next generation! 😹
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u/ThirdWigginKid 10d ago
Seems to me like a good argument for increasing minimum wage, dismantling Ticketmaster, and stopping mass buy ups of homes by trust funds.
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u/PenlyWarfold 11d ago edited 11d ago
Love how the same articles published about millennials are now being put on Gen Z.
It’s almost as if one generation continue to avoid responsibility for how they messed up multiple generations that followed them.
An interesting thing I saw the other day. £5 coffee per day = £25 per week. = £1300 per year = £13,000 after 10 years(not taking inflation into account)
= STILL NOTHING CLOSE TO A HOUSE DEPOSIT
Enjoy your coffee & whatever makes you happy
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u/zavtra13 11d ago
I think is less boomers being fools than it is just the capitalist propaganda machine doing its thing.
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u/godsdebris 11d ago
Ooohhh, for Millennials it was that we couldn't afford to buy a home because of avocado toast.
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u/Royalizepanda 11d ago
A home in my area is 700k the mortgage is 5k yup concert tickets Starbucks and avocado toast money
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u/itsapjslife 11d ago
Ummm yah? Why not? The country is embracing dictatorship, we can barely afford rent, let alone a home, eggs are 10 dollars, and global warming is going to kill us all. Why shouldn't we buy concert tickets since we're all probably going to die from all of the above? You might as well throw a party on the way out of this dystopian hellscape we're in.
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u/Careful-Growth3417 11d ago
Husband and I were just talking about this last night… Sure, if we stayed in all time, never ate out, never went to concerts/festivals and didn’t take vacations we could maybe afford a house, but what kind of life is that really?
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u/MagicDragon212 11d ago
The oldest of Gen Z are just now getting to the age they even start to consider buying a house.
Our parents went to concerts instead of buying houses in their 20s too.
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u/Dapper_Platform_1222 11d ago
Boomers will do anything but take credit for pulling the ladder up after them
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u/PM_YOUR_SAGGY_TITS 11d ago
I remember getting tickets for major acts for under $40 in high school. I didn't even have a job and we went to see Green Day at the height of their popularity and it wasn't even an issue to afford the tickets. Nowadays, you're spending $200+ for that ticket in the nosebleeds.
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u/TrollCannon377 Gen Z 11d ago
Have never been to a concert in my life and drive a 22 year old car with almost 200k miles on it still can't afford a home .
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u/bombadil_bud 11d ago
So millennials couldn’t afford it because of avocado toast and lattes every day. Now Gen Z can’t afford it cause of concert tickets? Maybe it’s a housing market problem.
It’s kinda analogous to “if all of your exes are assholes, maybe it’s not your exes… it’s you”
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u/Mr_Mimiseku 11d ago
Trying to find enjoyment out of this meaningless fucking existence isn't why people can't afford houses, asshole.
It's not my coffee, or avocado toast, you know the reason, and I know the reason, so stop pussyfooting around hurting the feelings of the poor wittle upper class who don't pay their share.
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u/evident_lee 11d ago
If only I didn't get that $300 concert ticket I could have bought a $400,000 house instead
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u/arthursucks Gen X 11d ago
Find article from 10 years ago.
Search and replace millennials to Gen Z
AND Publish!
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u/regular_sized_fork 11d ago
Asking a question in a headline just tells me there is nothing substantive in the article
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u/external_escape0 11d ago
Yeah it's not the $500 concert ticket, it's the $500,000 "starter homes".
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 11d ago
First it was avocado toast, now it’s concert tickets.
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u/sephrisloth 11d ago
Even the most expensive swifty concert with a 3k ticket doesn't come close to what you need for a home in this country. That's at most 3 mortgage payments, but probably more like 2 or even just 1, depending on the location of the house. It's definitely nowhere near the amount needed for a downpayment.
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u/Truskulls 11d ago
It could be worse. They could be saying Gen Z can't afford a house cause they buy avocado toast. That's how much they hate millennials, man, they tried to say we were broke because of fucking toast.
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u/InvestmentSorry6393 11d ago
Even as a teenager in the late nineties, and a young adult in the early 2000s I remember going to some awesome concerts, and regularly going to local shows. Live music was fun and affordable even though I wasn't well off. It's tough to afford any night out now, as a relatively established adult. $2500 tickets for a concert or a sporting event are just not happening.
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u/Beautiful-Year-6310 11d ago
Concerts were like $20 in the 90’s. Now they are $200-400 a ticket. Should Gen z just not have fun?? It sux that everything is so overpriced because of corporate greed.
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u/the_ninja1001 11d ago
Yep that’s it, nailed it, definitely no other factors at play here, damn concert tickets destroying the housing market!
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u/mells3030 11d ago
$300 ticket or 350k house????? Obviously, they can only afford one of these things.
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u/LonisEdison 11d ago
Probably got it backwards. Can't afford a house so might as well have some fun where you can.
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u/On_Wife_support 11d ago
I haven’t gone to a concert since 2019 and I went because I was obsessed with Sara Bareilles. I don’t think she has done a tour since then so I have zero regrets. It was like $300 for both VIP tickets together (I went with my sister). However, what is actually keeping me from being able to buy my basic necessities is that I am paying $607/ month in PRIVATE student loan payments. I barely look at the government ones. All because I was dumb enough at 20 with the encouragement of my professor to think I would amount to something if I went to Ringling. If it wasn’t for my mental health kicking me in the butt, if it wasn’t for the pandemic, if it wasn’t for the college being completely unaccommodating…i probably would have graduated and then my student loan payments would likely be even higher. And I wouldn’t have been guaranteed a job but I would have a name and a bachelors degree on my resume.
My point being that education in this country is unreasonably expensive and it doesn’t do jack shit to land you a job that pays enough to offset the cost. Don’t get me started on healthcare… I just want to make enough money to buy ice cream and coffee sometimes and to save up for an XBox or maybe in the future get back into oil painting.
But sure. Obviously it’s the concert I went to six years ago that is keeping me from buying a house
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u/Moist-Golf-8339 11d ago
Easy: 40 years ago, life was cheap and luxuries were expensive. Today life is expensive and luxuries are cheap.
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u/Ok-Hat-226 11d ago
No, they buy expensive concert tickets because they know they will never be able to buy a home and so need to experience pleasure another way.
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u/sweet-n-soursauce 10d ago
I can’t afford a typical vacation, but I can afford to save up for a while to go to a concert to have an escape from reality. We just wanna fun dammit!
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