Conditions are harder. People are less prepared than ever to deal with them.
The Job Market
From the company side: genuine talent is rare. People are flaky. They ghost interviews, accept offers and disappear, lie on resumes with confidence, spam with AI tools.
From the candidate side: listings are fake. Pay is crap. Conditions are worse. Six interview rounds for a ghost, AI driven ATS's are crap.
Both sides are right. Both sides created this.
The Dating Market
The value of the average young man has collapsed. The value of the average young woman has collapsed.
Many people shouldn't be in loving relationships right now; Mainly because they aren't worth dating, it goes both ways.
Everyone's to blame.
Housing
Houses are madly expensive in comparison to historical prices and peoples salaries.
For a couple in the UK you both put £4k/yr each into a LISA, the govt gives you £1k on top a year each, after 2-3 years and some market appreciation you've got £21-34k for a down payment on a £200-300k GBP house.
£4k/yr is £333/mo. average car payment is like £300-500/mo in the UK. Just earn an average salary, drive a crap car and skip holidays for 2-3 years and you can get a decent house. I know a guy on a £60k salary and he's got a £1020/mo lease on a car? It's hard but not impossible. I live in the midlands and there are plenty of terraced houses selling for £140-170k, in genuinely decent condition.
Health
problem: Most food is poison.
fix: Just don't eat the poison.
problem: Peoples mental health is in the toilet.
fix: put the phone down, exercise and socialise.
Life is pretty tough compared to 20-40 years ago, but people keep fucking themselves over. No one wants to help themselves.
