Kids Are Soft These Days
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Dude...that's like just not an option right now. I'm not allowed to leave the country until my student loan is paid...and that will be like, 200 years from now or something.
Besides, I bet capsule living in Alaska is super cold. Is there even a Starbucks?
Leave the country? I hope to God that's sarcasm........
And of course we have Starbucks (Anchorage has 20 of them). But why drink that old lady diarrhea when you could be sipping on some fresh locally roasted beans by Kaladi Brothers or Steam Dot?
Hahaha, for $800 a month you could buy a homestead! Although, capsule living is quite fancy here..........
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What's a homestead? Is that like a communal village type of thing?
WOW! That's a capsule mansion!
I'm pretty sure they don't allow that type of construction in the USA though...and I'd need like, half a dozen roommates to afford a place like that.
Hahaha, funny. $800 a month can buy you homestead or 1,000 sq. feet of whatever if you prefer, house, condo, etc.
Or buy land. With the exception of Anchorage, you can damn near build whatever you want, very few (or no) code restrictions. Better yet, find a nice tree lot and build yourself a log cabin. It's not that complex, just takes a little muscle (and time). Mortgage (and roommate) free living baby.
I’m with Clint, I gave my kids a lot but I worked em hard, but I have to agree somewhat it’s harder now, damn they can’t do half the crap we did or said.. The 1 % representing us in the Military are some of the finest anywhere. It’s a mixed bag,
I'd move in a heartbeat but the wife would never go along with it. Are wives cheaper in Alaska too?
I would have to disagree. Kids are not softer. It just takes them longer to mature.
When teens are employed early in life the value of money (practice saving and spending) is learned at an early age.
The “soft” generation had little to no chance for early employment. Thus the value of money was not learned and not taught by parents creating this trillions in total debt in student loans.
This debt albatross leaves little hope, despair and frustration when their student debt is finally realized.
When college was affordable, students graduated with little debt allowing employment, marriage, and having children at an early age. In other words, family responsibility forced a maturity to survive and save for the future.
Most are not married, but living together. Marriage is sometime in the future and kids are not a topic of conversation. This sense of family and community is held together by a string. A string of common debt. Soft? Yes. But give them a little while. The strong will eventually survive.
When teens are employed early in life the value of money (practice saving and spending) is learned at an early age.
The “soft” generation had little to no chance for early employment. Thus the value of money was not learned and not taught by parents creating this trillions in total debt in student loans.
This debt albatross leaves little hope, despair and frustration when their student debt is finally realized.
When college was affordable, students graduated with little debt allowing employment, marriage, and having children at an early age. In other words, family responsibility forced a maturity to survive and save for the future.
Most are not married, but living together. Marriage is sometime in the future and kids are not a topic of conversation. This sense of family and community is held together by a string. A string of common debt. Soft? Yes. But give them a little while. The strong will eventually survive.
Great post there. I really dislike the disdain for younger generations, particularly boys/men who aren't traditionally masculine and girls/women who aren't traditionally feminine (though the former tends to offend more). I realise the first post was largely in jest but it inevitably flows into the 'men aren't manly enough' sentiment and that one just doesn't wash with me.
I don't think the outlook of 'Let people be as they are' should be labelled anything but 'reasonable'. What I really don't understand is why anybody would be troubled by how masculine any man besides themselves is.
If people wish to consume the 'safe space millennials' narrative then there are entire media outlets happy to feed them salacious headlines presenting caricatures as photographic evidence but it's just really really ugly. I'm damn proud of my mother for never pushing me to be more masculine so I could be a miniature manifestation of someone else's 'proper man'.
The great thing about 2019 is if you want to grow a beard and wear plaid, you can do that and enjoy being a rugged pipe smoking man's man. Likewise if that isn't you, you don't have to spend your few years in this life trying to please people who don't respect you. I'm a mercurial type and none of my friends or family have sneered at me either way the pendulum's swung.
At the end of the day, we're just upright apes with an oral fixation.
If that were applied equally to everyone it would be just dandy.
The problem is that an awful lot of those who are preaching "tolerance" and "diversity" these days are very limited in who they believe that tolerance and diversity should be extended to. And in many instances have shown great intolerance to anyone who doesn't agree with them.
Cost of living is a bit high in Alaska but there is the dividend check ($1,600 this year for every resident) and if you are willing to put in the work and eat a lot of salmon and moose the food cost and can be offset somewhat. I mean, there are places you can use a dip net and just scoop delicious sockeye out of the river.
I mostly disagree with generational conflict. It's a bit contrived I think. Generations are a continuum. As a man with two young sons (almost 3 years old and 1 year old) I will try to instill some "old fashioned" values. For example respect for, and politeness toward, women and elderly people. Also self sufficiency, compassion, the value of hard work, and integrity. I recognize that this will need to be incorporated into a world that is rapidly changing and is much different than the one I grew up in (I was born in 1977). I think a major problem in the modern world is that technology has advanced much faster than our code of ethics for the use of that technology. I lament that the childhood of my sons may be contaminated by the internet in the years to come. There are some things I wish I could shield them from until they are a suitable age (extreme violence of people toward each other, pornography and etc).
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