{"id":2085,"date":"2014-11-20T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/11\/20\/patrickat-wetorturedsomefolks-ghostdrama\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T04:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:32:13","slug":"patrickat-wetorturedsomefolks-ghostdrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/11\/20\/patrickat-wetorturedsomefolks-ghostdrama\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2085 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/11\/20\/patrickat-wetorturedsomefolks-ghostdrama\/attachment\/2086\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/11\/tumblr_m97qpaHmvN1qcokc4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patrickat.tumblr.com\/post\/103150211383\/wetorturedsomefolks-ghostdrama\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">patrickat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wetorturedsomefolks.tumblr.com\/post\/102887499312\/ghostdrama-dem-queer-animals\">wetorturedsomefolks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ghostdrama.tumblr.com\/post\/68561595687\/dem-queer-animals-awesome-everyday\">ghostdrama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dem-queer-animals.tumblr.com\/post\/49983136045\/awesome-everyday-shorterexcerpts\">dem-queer-animals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/awesome-everyday.tumblr.com\/post\/30036889861\/shorterexcerpts-thecallus-theatlantic-the\">awesome-everyday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shorterexcerpts.tumblr.com\/post\/30036300016\/thecallus-theatlantic-the-cheapest\">shorterexcerpts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thecallus.com\/post\/30035936239\/theatlantic-the-cheapest-generation-why-arent\">thecallus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/30035626730\/the-cheapest-generation-why-arent-millennials\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/09\/the-cheapest-generation\/309060\">The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren\u2019t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What if Millennials\u2019 aversion to car-buying isn\u2019t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It\u2019s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending\u2014most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy\u2014and for the speed of recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/09\/the-cheapest-generation\/309060\"><strong>Read more.<\/strong><\/a><em> [Image: Kagan McLeod]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>IT\u2019S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking\u00a0<em>preference\u00a0<\/em>has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt <em>ever<\/em>! What are you asking this question for?!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.<\/p>\n<p>My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of <em>prices<\/em> went up.<\/p>\n<p>We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable\/satellite\u00a0tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions \u2014 <strong>bills that didn\u2019t even exist 30-40 years ago<\/strong>. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn\u2019t exist 20-50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us can\u2019t afford to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get married and have a \u201cTraditional\u201d big wedding<\/li>\n<li>Buy a house<\/li>\n<li>Buy a new car<\/li>\n<li>PLAN to have children<\/li>\n<li>Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.<\/p>\n<p>So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We\u2019re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there\u2019s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. <strong>Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn\u2019t new, pal. You\u2019re just acting like this shit is new because it\u2019s hitting white folks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>anyway, my point is:<strong> We are fucking broke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>read the commentary above ^^<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hey. Hey, guys. I know the economy being fucked up is totally our fault, but what if we tell people the next generation\u2026<em>wants<\/em> to be poor?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>every time i see this i think it\u2019s so funny because boomers are the most delusional people on earth<\/p>\n<p>there was a period between 1950 and 1990 where most americans could afford a house and a car and a big wedding and so on and suddenly that\u2019s \u201ctraditional\u201d. presumably our grandparents who got married in clapboard churches and walked to work and lived in cramped apartments were also wacky nonconformists<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Traditional&#8221; = &#8220;The way I did it when I was younger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>patrickat: wetorturedsomefolks: ghostdrama: dem-queer-animals: awesome-everyday: shorterexcerpts: thecallus: theatlantic: The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren\u2019t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses? What if Millennials\u2019 aversion to car-buying isn\u2019t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It\u2019s a question that applies not only to cars, but to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/11\/20\/patrickat-wetorturedsomefolks-ghostdrama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}