The article is oddly passive aggressive about the topic. Instead of going into the nuances of why this occurs and what might be expected if this trend continues (which is what an unbiased reader might expect from the title), the author instead veers a sharp left turn and starts ranting about how the newer generation is too dependent on their parents for monetary support and how the parents need to stop supporting their children.

I also find the data to be oddly presented, since the data lumps all people between ages 18 to 30 together. People in their teens and early 20’s have a high chance of living with their parents due to studying in college. It makes me wonder if the author specifically lumped these people into a single group to try to skew the data in favor of their awkwardly anti-millenial stance.

“Different” meaning collapsing.

Capitalism was always a con-game. Infinite growth on a finite world with finite resources was always a scam. With no meaningful virgin markets to exploit and no meaningful new economic sectors in which to grow/metastasize, the whole scam is falling apart and the market capitalists are eating each other’s empire’s whole, destroying entire economic sector’s ability to produce the goods/services they used to in the process. HBODiscoveryTimeWarnerParamountSoon dispensing garbage shadows of what its former swallowed and destroyed competition used to produce is happening everywhere in every sector, from healthcare to food production. The enshittification of end stage market capitalism.

The snake is choking on its own fucking tail. The people can either be punished for it by the desperate owners going insane demanding ever mooaaaar from their failing scheme and suffer that pointless pain into collapse, or we can revolt and suffer the useful pain of building an equitable society from the ashes.

I have no real hope for the second one, but I’d love to be proven wrong.

Thank god my kid makes more money than I do. He’s even on track to pay me back for college.

Young adults face myriad economic challenges in 2024 America. College costs and student debt loads are rising. House prices have soared. Mercurial inflation and interest rates have vexed consumers.

Parents, for their part, seem ever more inclined to carry on with parenting well past the age a child exits childhood, removing every obstacle in their path. Some researchers call it “snowplow” parenting.