hyperreality enjoyer @postconcept.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Sure, millennials may be accumulating wealth at a similar rate to previous generations, but have you considered that they now need to pay for private school lest their children encounter immigrants or children of divorce? 140
hyperreality enjoyer @postconcept.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Does YouTube just include this by default now? Easy to imagine how someone could accidentally dox themselves with this 110
![[…] in the data on schooling, homeownership, and family formation.
All of this is hidden from the top-line metrics, usually in one of two ways:
1. Huge increases in the cost of essential aspects of family life (homeownership, education, etc.) being offset by huge decreases in the cost of non-essential goods (televisions, phones, etc.) making the young appear wealthy in the abstract but without them actually being able to afford anything meaningful;
2. By presenting false equivalencies which imply a level of choice that younger generations do not actually have. For example: an American family in 1975 could send their children to public school on the assumption that the vast majority of other children would belong to intact families, communities like their own, and would speak English as a first language. Now, realistically, many parents must turn to private schooling for the same reassurances.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnkiabporjrsjndyfndjbfic/bafkreief4artuq7arh6lngnc2vuvhv3z4cztgjzoh7qwdt3hqmy44snfpa)
