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The popular 'people don't want to work anymore' is insane to me.
in the mid 90s i worked 1 job (8.50/hr) with enough OT pay to buy a duplex 1 street off the beach in Florida (85k)
Before i left corporate America the same level staff doesn't get overtime, which means they work the same hours but at straight pay, has to pay triple rent, the house is listed at 1M+
its a shitshow
I started in my first professional role in 2001, making $11/hour. I knew I'd be moving around for several years -- such is the plight of an early newspaper career -- and buying a house was still considered a very long-term investment, so I sucked it up and paid the $345/month in rent for a depressing but functional 1/1 (the rent would go up to $355 a year later).
In this fucking century.
The gaslighting on how it's been 50+ years since one job was all you need is such bullshit. By the time I got to Texas a decade ago, the centralized hub proudly admitted it expected everyone to get a roommate. I started at $17.79/hour, and depressing 1/1s started around $900. The place I moved into after splitting with my cohabitating girlfriend was $945 in 2019; I became homeless by choice when the rent was up to $1350 in 2023.
I want to work, but I don't want to do it just to make property-management vultures rich. I remember things like vacations being affordable, being able to justify brand-name purchases at the grocery store instead of the house brand, and not thinking about gas costs as I tooled around. Now, everything has to be a fucking line item in a budget that tightens like a noose.
And don't even get me started on the liability that is decades of experience. For all the talk of "people don't want to work anymore," what's lurking in the back is "no employer wants to pay a living wage anymore" -- well, yeah: When being employed doesn't improve your financial situation, what's the point?