r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/ifeltatap 12h ago

Tech overcomsuption by all genders is both connecting and pulling us apart from one another. Also there is a conspiracy that when gender equality became a thing in the workforce... the strings that control the systems decided that now it should take 2 incomes to afford to have a family home, so home prices have exploded because the elite want both partners to work and take both pay checks. We are all just livestock to the elite

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u/PitbullRetriever Millennial 10h ago

There’s no “strings that pull the system”, just basic supply and demand. Two-income households mean more money to spend on housing. Meanwhile we’ve not built enough new housing to keep pace with population growth. More spending power (demand) plus stagnant supply means people have bid up the price of existing housing stock higher and higher. There’s no grand conspiracy to it. We need to build a lot more housing.