why do americans care so much if you're living with your parents as an adult?

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[–]SoCo 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Before our economy and livelihoods were slowly gutted by progressive politicians starting about the beginning of 2000, it was extremely difficult to not be able to make ends meet, living on your own, employed with an entry level job. Thus, living with your parents was a sign of being lazy and unemployed, during a time of great opportunity, easy employment, and cheap cost of living. Only those ambitious enough to live in expensive urban shit-hole slums needed room-mates to cover the exorbitant costs of urban housing caused by the centralization of emerging technology to these urban hubs.

Now everyone is struggling. The urban shit-holes have a mass migration outwards. It is hard to make ends meet no matter how many decades of skilled experience you have and our country is pissing away all our tax dollars into green energy scams and foreign money laundering wars.

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I agree with what you are saying here about the cultural reasons we frown upon this living arrangement, but I think this started way before 2000, 2000 is just when the problem had gotten pretty bad. Globalization and the outsourcing of factory jobs which started much earlier than this was certainly part of this trend. One could argue this has been a trend since very beginning of America.

Importing slaves to work in fields, Irish and then Chinamen to mine and build railroads, Mexicans to pick our fields, all predicated on extreme resistance to paying existing Americans a living wage for essential work. The factory work got outsourced next, but there has been a very long process of trying to not pay American laborers a living wage to do the vast majority of blue collar labor. I think you are underappreciating the incentives provided by our economic system and the globalization made possible by technology in creating the situation we see today

[–]JohnRaymond 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Irish weren't impossible imported. We were fleeing famine engineered by u know who