No one can help when they are born.
Except maybe time travellers
I don’t know the doctor doesn’t even really get to pick much the tardis just takes him whenever
I don’t think that they think that. I do think that they think you don’t deserve a house if you work at McDonalds.
Or health care, or food and clothing
This exactly. Their excuse is that these jobs are for teenagers, meaning that they should be exploited.
They call it a job for teenagers, but will actually have a meltdown if mcdonalds isn’t open during school hours. God help if they have to wait 2 minutes because staff is low
Why do you think they’re rolling back child labor laws? Karen just has to have her McFlurry at 9am
I Love every person on tv that hates something, its a women around 50-70 year old xD.
“That’s only a job for high schoolers”
Also, “fuck you, got mine”
“So you want McDonalds to close during school hours?”
“when I was your age I made -half- what they’re paying at mcdonalds now, and I paid for a car, a house, college, and and supported my wife and three kids with it!”
me: blood pressure increases
I’ve found it effective to follow this with, “yes, now you’re starting to understand the problem”
“Yeah and houses were 1/20th of what they are now. Sit down and shut up grandma, you stupid old racist cunt.”
I know old americans are the one saying this but this is not at all an americans problem. I work in an office, I make very good money, don’t pay rent amd have no kids so all my money should go to investing right? Well I bought a flat (not even a house) and I pay 80% of my salary (i’ll say it again it’s considered very very good) in a short mortage. It wont last 30 years but fuck if this is not extremely expensive
If only I wouldn’t eat so much avocado toast.
When you were my age you could buy a house for less than the deposit on a rented bedroom.
When you were my age
…when rich people eventually get medical immortality, that can be used both ways!
Immortality doesn’t protect you from Luigi.
We really need more Luigis.
Meanwhile, Gen X:
I don’t know why, but I really love the idea of representing Millenials as Shrek and Gen Z as Donkey, and that’s how I’m gonna see us from now on.
You guys have fun fuckin’ that dragon. I’m gonna go angrily bathe in my filth pool. ❤️
How I bought a house: Don’t learn to drive, rent a bedroom for like 8 years to save up a deposit.
Where I live is considered incredibly cheap by city people.
Boomer: What?! Just walk into the building, go up to the receptionist or bossman, and demand to be interviewed for a job, and fill out an application form. Refuse to leave without a job offer. They’ll be so impressed by your dedication, they can’t do anything else, but to hire you! What are you waiting for?
It blows my mind that gen z is old enough to be stuck in this mess with us.
The only chance I ever had to own a home was taking over the one I grew up in from my parents. I couldn’t raise my kids there though. The neighborhood went from being a nice little mining town to meth as currency town.
Good luck you guys. Maybe y’all can work on the boys following Andrew Tate off of a cliff and get this world going in the right direction.
Shit, in 40 years us millennials will finally be old enough to hold elected office. Hahahahaha
You can get a house working in McDonald’s.
You just need to be the sole heir of someone who owns a house and either be patient, or proactive.
Do people on Lemmy think that there was a time when one could afford a house on fast food worker wages?
The confusion is that fast food jobs have always been for kids. Not permanent jobs. Non kids work them now because of the millions of blue collar jobs in the manufacturing sector that left the country over the past decades. Those were the jobs that paid enough for you to buy a house. I wonder what policies might bring back those good paying jobs in manufacturing might be
um yes? because it’s the truth? do some research before posting man. even if you were alive back then that doesn’t mean you knew wtf was up everywhere in the country with every demographic.
There were houses in the US that were only 25k just before the great recession. Not everywhere certainly, small houses in major cities, we used to have cheap houses not too long ago. It was only after COVID that all the houses went up to a national minimum because of WFH and other things.
You are gullible
Wow what a well thought out and detailed rebuttal.
no, i just think i don’t like dealing with idiots like yourself who’s perogotive is to abscond anything you read that makes you feel any cognitive dissonance.
i have nothing good to say to those who can’t engage in good-faith discussion, like yourself. you’re part of the problem with the world nowadays.
Gottem
You mean a full time wage?
Yes. Full time fast food worker wages
In the 1980s, it was possible for a McDonald’s worker to afford a house on their salary alone due to lower housing costs and higher relative purchasing power. For example, in 1980, the average home price was around $47,200, and minimum wage workers could feasibly save for a down payment with disciplined budgeting[5].
Today, this scenario is nearly impossible. Housing costs have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated. A full-time McDonald’s worker earning $8.75/hour would gross about $13,811 annually, far below the income needed to afford even modest housing without spending more than 30% of their income on rent[2][4].
Citations: [1] Is it possible to move out parents house with McDonald’s income? https://www.reddit.com/r/McDonaldsEmployees/comments/15c54ah/is_it_possible_to_move_out_parents_house_with/ [2] Paycheck for a McDonald’s worker is very small. - Upworthy https://www.upworthy.com/heres-a-paycheck-for-a-mcdonalds-worker-heres-my-jaw-dropping-to-the-floor-ex1 [3] Mcdonald’s Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money - https://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burger/ [4] [PDF] Unaccommodating: Rental Housing Wage in Canada https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/attachments/Unaccommodating - Rental Wage in Canada.pdf [5] Could You Buy a House Working at McDonald’s in the 1980s? https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/could-you-buy-house-working-mcdonalds-1980s [6] [PDF] Salaried-Employee-Handbook-Office.pdf - McDonald’s https://www.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/uk/nfl/pdf/uploads/careers/Salaried-Employee-Handbook-Office.pdf [7] How to work at McDonald’s and still become a millionaire - CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/09/how-to-work-at-mcdonalds-and-still-become-a-millionaire.html
Oh can not wait for the reply to this, as if we do not have examples of this in living memory.
Its silly but we are seeing more and more of this crap, where the past can not be the way it was since the way it is today is not like the way it was. Some sort of odd american static impression of the world around us.
How much could a house cost? $10?
Meanwhile Gen X:
Forgotten as usual. 😉
Lol, change it to “buy groceries and pay rent” and it still works
Only if you can afford a 50% down payment of 2 million.
