this is half way true. when I was 20 i was made homeless because my insane mom didn't like that I didn't want her using facebook to control every aspect of my life (like who could post on my wall). I had an extremely difficult 5 years working my way up from minimum wage part time jobs to finally securing a 40k full time job and then finally getting my foot into the door of software engineering. 29 now and doing WAYY better.
A lot of the issues with people living in vans is that they haven't given themselves particularly useful skills. If a lazy boomer can outcompete you, you are probably not better than a lazy boomer.
I know plenty of people my age who spent something like 100k on school loans, dropping and retaking many basic classes because they partied on loan money, just to get an english/communications degree.
While life isn't exactly easy, more often than not I see people's misfortune is self-inflicted. Sure, it doesnt help that the entire public school system tells you to throw your life away on some extra stupid loan for a worthless degree that they will pretend is valuable by conflating the statistics with degrees that are actually valuable, and disqualifying the numbers that would paint the real picture by some fine print exclusion.
LOL - all rants, no action. There may be a participation award in it for you. But since you don't have the stuff, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and begin to make a real life for yourself. You may not believe this, but we all started at the bottom and worked our way up. I have have two daughters likely about your age who have done just that and are quite successful. So are their respective male counterparts. What you're looking for is the world to stop spinning and let you in, in some high paying gig so you can afford this or that or to get married, have kids, whatever. The world didn't do that for us, nor will it do it for you. From experience let me inform you ... there will never be enough of a bank balance to get married ... there will never be enough for you to have kids ... the great high paying job doesn't come to you, you have to work to get it ... we all did ... we all made the choices and became what we became. Taking chances is what life is all about in the end. As for my generation, we didn't wake up one morning with someone saying ... hey, I gotta have that guy, pay him anything. Nope, it's on you, bud ... wake up and smell the coffee or sit there and stew in your own juices, it's your choice. Look to the streets, there are many failed boomers, too ... some made it, some didn't ... and unless you look inward, you can't possibly succeed.
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