Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK
This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, itβs completely normalΒ to live with your parents when youβre an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until theyβre marriedΒ Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent π
In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthoodβsometimes until they married, sometimes longer.Β In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job.Β Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.
And now those jobs donβt exist, or are few and far between, and guess what!Β People are living with their parents again.Β But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as βfailuresβ because the economics have changed.
A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40β²s and 50β²s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the βnuclear familyβ that resembled nothing before it and weβre still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their βnostalgic good old daysβ and the way they think things are βsupposed to be.β
I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me
