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Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy

 

HAHA NO MONAY!!!!!

 

Maybe our generation aren’t buying houses and cars because EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKED.

 

You want us to actually talk to bank people and get home loans and auto loans? They are still fucking us! Any time I go into a bank, I feel disgusted. You want me to do MORE business with the who want to charge me 5 dollars for every single swipe of my debit card?

 

Get fucked!

 

You think I’m gonna buy a car? A car? Where am I gonna get the money for a car and the insurance and the insurance against the insurance company if God forbid they decide to do the same things they did to the poor Fisher family and countless others? And fucking GAS? Are you crazy? The planet is dying, and you want me to buy gas at $FUCK.YOU/gallon?

 

In the past 5 years since the economy fell apart, we’ve been adapting. We’ve been listening to countless horror stories of those who made the risk. Those who saved and did it right, and still ended up with an inferior product with inferior service that RUINS YOUR LIFE. It’s not like ordering a pizza, and instead of sausage, you get cheese. It’s like ordering a pizza and then your credit is ruined and you are flat broke. The pains of acquisition aren’t worth it if it can all be taken away like a bureaucratic fart in the bathtub. It would be smarter to save our money for tickets to god-damn Mars than to invest in these hideous, broken systems.

 

We aren’t cheap. We fucking hate doing business with you people.

 

All these pieces on Millennials are so mired in confusion since we don’t even trust journalists any more. The news, our entire lives, has been scary. Think about being 8 and processing the deaths of abortion doctors or homegrown terrorism. Now try to process the news when every asshole on camera just lies. The news hasn’t had an ounce of truth in it for 10 years. Can you not understand how much we don’t trust anyone who is older than us? How can you trust anybody when the president and vice-president of the United States lied to the Secretary of State so they could START THE WRONG WAR!

Fucking seriously.

 

Also, that graphic? Is that what you think we all look like? Are you fucking kidding me,
Atlantic
?

 

I hope they never find out how to market to us. I hope we splinter so much that companies like Ford will have to make a decent product instead of asking the Vomit Spouts that created Jersey Shore how to create MORE fantasies about how great THINGS will make your life. We don’t attach to things because things break. We saw everything break.

 

But, that’s just me.

I found this on Tumblr. It's not mine, but it's good.

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Key Gear

I agree with all that. Nice find!

 

I just don't get why our generation gets the blame for economic slowness because we are not spending all of our money and living destitute. The older generations reaped the rewards from an overheated economy for decades. Now, what's left for us? The scraps. And yet, we are the ones to blame…

 

I remember when this politician came to speak to a group of students locally. We kept asking him how the future looks for our generation. Eventually, I guess he got tired of answering the questions and he said “You guys are just plain screwed. We had a great time and now there's nothing left for you.” I guess that was a rare moment of a politician being honest.

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Zoop

Why don't I want a car? Because I live in a worthwhile city that has public transit options that are sufficient enough to make owning a car an unnecessary convenience. With services like Zipcar and Car2Go available that can provide short-term rentals and hourly/daily rates, who wants to spend hundreds and hundreds of payments/gas/insurance?

 

"Get fucked," indeed.

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Colon Leftbracket

Kinda relevant to my post since the hell I went through to get home from fucking school was because it seems nearly impossible for me to succeed in this economy as is.

 

I had to walk home from school due to a long series of bullshit events (yes I even blogged about it), but the whole thing could be avoided if I could just get a damn car.

 

Though I can't get a car because I'm flat broke. I'm flat broke because I don't have a job. But I can't get a car because I need a FUCKING CAR for transportation to and from a job. Though even with all that I still can't get a job because I've been rejected by EVERY SINGLE LAST FUCKING PLACE I've applied to. Apparently you have to have a god damn degree in rocket science to work at Target!

 

And don't even get my started on what I'm supposed to do after I graduate this year. College is fucked because its a big fucking gamble.

 

Ughh... I need a happy pill.

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A Blithering Div

I've never quite understood the point on paying more for something (ie interest) than the sticker price. Also, I think its kind of... no it just is sad that Intel pays out higher dividend yields than the interest garnered by my savings account. 3.41% vs .012% respectively. Worst part is, last I checked, not only is my bank publicly traded, but the dividend yield was 2.3% and as you pointed out, I'm expected to get a car and pay 8% interest (for the sake of argument) on a quintuple digit loan from said bank? Ummm, no. Either I pay for it all upfront or no sale. Screw you and screw your credit system.

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