Listen to this rant, then read all of the comments about how “Boomers” have ruined it for today’s youth because they used up all of the opportunity by living life on “easy mode.” .
In 1960, the U.S. homeownership rate stood at 62.1% of households, meaning a majority but not all adults achieved it through steady work. Labor force participation for adults 16+ averaged about 59% in the early 1960s, with prime-age men often exceeding 90%, though many worked multiple jobs amid economic growth. Poverty afflicted 22% of Americans in 1959 (around 39 million people), dropping to 14.7% by 1966 due to expanding opportunities and policy shifts, yet struggles persisted for the unskilled or disadvantaged.
As of late 2024, the U.S. homeownership rate hovers around 65.7% of households, higher than 62.1% in 1960 despite rising costs. Civilian labor force participation for those 16+ is 62.3%, up slightly from the early 1960s’ 59% average, though prime-age rates remain strong amid dual-income norms. The official poverty rate dropped to 10.6% in 2024 (35.9 million people), far below 22% in 1959, reflecting broader access to opportunities even as entry barriers feel steeper for youth.
So total people in poverty dropped, both in real numbers and per capita. Homeownership rates are higher than in 1960, and labor participation is up.
Now there are some of these kids pointing out that houses were cheaper in 1960, but they are missing that wages were lower, and houses are now much larger. They talk about “tiny homes” as if buying a 500 square foot house is something that they just invented a couple of years ago.
The original video poster is a student. Students are always broke. Living on Ramen noodles and hot dogs is what people do when in college. Get a roommate. Stop being a whiny bitch.
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Gerry · November 12, 2025 at 10:42 am
I think our first house was about 1200 sq ft. after living in an apartment for seven years. Paid it off, bought property and built a house about 2400 sq ft. This house is about 3500 sq ft but we bought it because of the location and we could keep our horses there. The sale of house #2 paid for house #3.
One of our software engineers had a wild hair that boomers ruined the real estate market. Dumb ass had two kids and a wife that works part time and renting a townhouse. I doubt his wife’s salary even breaks even on the child care cost. Both drive newer cars but he still wants the 3000 sq ft house with a pool. Doesn’t understand equity or how to build it.
Do they teach personal economics in school these days?
Igor · November 12, 2025 at 12:54 pm
No, Econ is not taught to kids nowadays – the credit industry would be a lot smaller if they DID.
I lived with my wife in a trailer in my AF days, when we got out we bought an 800 sq ft house, kept it up and improved it, sold for a profit, plowed it into another house. Rinse, repeat.
Now that I am retired, we live in a $590K house in Suburbia and only have the house as a loan. We NEVER bought a new car after my mom gave us $1,000 dollars to get a new car for her gift to us for our marriage. Don’t buy the latest and greatest, people, you are overpaying for the “privilege”. Might as well stamp SUCKER on your forehead every time you do.
TRX · November 12, 2025 at 3:56 pm
Nope. They didn’t teach how to balance a checkbook either. Though considering how many members of Congress have law or other advanced degrees, that’s apparently not a common thing even at postgrad level.
Tsgt Joe · November 12, 2025 at 11:15 am
Though I’m a grumpy old boomer, I do have to say the young folks have been sold a bill of goods about education. “ You’re nobody without a degree” “ work with your head not your hands”. The cost of tuition is criminal. Even if it had more value its overpriced.
Steady Steve · November 12, 2025 at 5:09 pm
And they still can’t change a tire either.
Chai · November 12, 2025 at 12:37 pm
Whiny little pussy needs a haircut and a major attitude adjustment. I put myself through college too working and going to class. It wasn’t easy, it’s not supposed to be easy. I had some help from family on occasion but by and large I did it myself. It really pisses me off when I hear pajama boys bitch and moan that Uncle Sugar Daddy owes them something cause their students. Take care of your own problems, fussy pants.
Titan Mk6B · November 12, 2025 at 12:41 pm
Being broke in college was the norm in my day also. I would forage for pecans in the fall and sometimes that was my dinner. I would buy a meal ticket at the dorms so I could have a good meal for lunch during the week. It was cheaper than buying the food itself and had a lot more variety.
Steve · November 13, 2025 at 11:52 am
Boy, does that take me back. My freshman year, someone brought in a block of government cheese, and became a pariah because of it. People started talking to him again once he got a job and started buying his own food rather than sponging food meant for people with real hardships.
Igor · November 12, 2025 at 12:45 pm
What a freaking whiner and Libturd.
In the 1980’s I was going to Jr. College with an overload of 26 credit hours a quarter, working 40.5 hours a week at night, and my lovely wife had just had our first child. I got 3-1/2 hours of sleep on the weekdays and crashed on Saturday to make up for lack of sleep. Did that for two years to get my AAS degree, then went on the 4-year college for my BS in computers.
Guess today’s whiny bitches can’t handle a little stress or work.
Got ZERO sympathy.
Steve · November 12, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Ran into something like that in person last week when someone very similar appeared at church for a handout. His food stamps (SNAP) had run out, and he was furious at Trump. Damn Democrats. Probably can’t be addressed until we deport every last Democrat activist and politician, but I repeat myself.
One of the elders suggested he find a roommate, since that would halve the rent and utilities, and he went ballistic — “I already can’t **** afford my **** one-bedroom apartment, what the **** makes you **** think I can **** afford a **** two-bedroom?”
My guess is his parents waited to have kids until they could afford a nicer place, and maybe he’s had his own bedroom and snacks in the fridge for as long as he can remember.
He did get his handout. Security figured he was the kind who would return and vandalize the place. Sad we need security, but more rants about Democrats isn’t going to change it.
J J · November 13, 2025 at 2:26 pm
When I was in college I shared a 1 bedroom with 3 other guys. The guy who actually rented the apartment got the bedroom and the rest of us worked out space to sleep in the living room. Was it comfortable? No. But it was all we could afford.
The whiner in the video is probably experiencing discomfort for the first time in his life and has expectations that exceed his ability to pay for.
JimmyPx · November 12, 2025 at 1:45 pm
Boohoo, you poor baby, NONE of us older people had to go through what you did.
BS, I worked full time waiting tables all through college. I also had a dumpy little apartment that I shared with 3 other guys. Instead of whining I was grateful that I could go to college.
These little punks have been spoiled their whole lives and he either didn’t have a father or had a weak one. I’ve worked since I was 12 years old first as a gopher for my Grandfather’s electrician business and later at various jobs. I learned the value of hard work and when I messed up I had either of my Grandfathers or my Dad’s boot in my butt to straighten me out.
This little punk is weak and wants an easy life with everything handed to him. A stint at Paris Island would work wonders on him and straighten his attitude out.
SiG · November 12, 2025 at 2:07 pm
The kids blame us for everything. My dad, a WWII veteran, was partially disabled from a war injury and then had an on the job injury in my senior year of high school that forced him to retire. As well as totally wrecking all my college finance plans. So I worked full time and went to school at night. Instead of getting my degree in about ’76, it took until ’88, getting my engineering degree after I had been working as one for several years. My first house was about 1200 sq feet and this one was 1500 if you counted the garage. We added about 800 square feet before I retired.
Skyler the Weird · November 12, 2025 at 2:27 pm
My first home in 1990 was 900 sq ft. It was $50000. Wasn’t much more room than the apartment we were renting
Slow Joe Crow · November 12, 2025 at 4:23 pm
I have no sympathy for this whiny little goit but some housing markets are hard to break into. My son got through engineering school with part time work and loans and in his mid 20s he already makes over $100k but he can only afford a $400k house in an area that averages $500‐600k. So he either eats a long commute or has to find more money.
Thanks,to Zillow I can say the 1400 sq ft house we boughtfor $150,000 in 1996, and sold for $300k in 2015, just sold for $599k in 2022. Unfortunately moving won’t help since his most likely destination is just as expensive
Steady Steve · November 12, 2025 at 5:20 pm
If his generation knew anything about economics they would be sacking Washington DC and burning down Wall Street and the Mariner Eccles building.
lynn · November 12, 2025 at 5:31 pm
All of a sudden, I am hearing and seeing a lot of complaints about boomers, of which my wife and I are. We bought our first 850 ft2 house in Sweetwater, Texas for $28,000. I think that it is crazy to expect that your first house is a 3,000 ft2 mansion with a pool.
joe · November 12, 2025 at 5:39 pm
he could have joined the military, got the college fund, see the world some, go to school while in the military…he obviously has a phone…you can do without that…you have to sacrifice some if you want to get anywhere later in life…but kids today aren’t taught about sacrifice, all they know is i want it all now…had the college fund, got my degree in 3 years while working full time…i spent 2 nights a week taking class for 5 hours a night to get my degree…and i was in my 30’s when i did it…what a tard…
Anonymous · November 12, 2025 at 6:50 pm
People rise to the level they are told they can achieve. That is a reason why we have cities full of hood rats and will have a depressed, angry, unsuccessful generation.
A big problem is these kids are told they have it rough, will never be successful and they believe it and live accordingly. Get rid of social media and the media.
Steve · November 13, 2025 at 11:58 am
Amen.
Things like this remind me of the quote from Richard Bach, “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” I read that at a time I really needed it, and snapped out of my self-pity.
Troy Messer · November 12, 2025 at 6:58 pm
My dad’s first house was about $25,000.00 in the early 1970’s. I just ran an amortization calculator. For $25,000.00 at 13% interest @ 30 years. Total payments of $99,557.96. Total interest $74,557.96. The median wage in 1971 was $10,290.00. $99,557.96/$10,290 = 9.6 years if you spent all your dough going to pay the house.
The median price where I live is $540,000.00. $540,000.00 @ 6% for 30 years = Total Payment of $1,165,526.22. Total interest paid of $625,526.22. The median wage today is $61,984.00 . $1,165,526.00 / $$61,984.00 = 18.9 years if you spent all your dough on the house.
So not only are boomers evil, they are also innumerate. I will help Gen Z burn it to the ground and you guys can have a topping of virtue to go along with the hot dogs cooked over the ashes. The only non-fungible asset is time. And it is beyond dispute that it took boomers less time to purchase a home. Boomers didn’t have to compete with the Japanese, the Germans, and the whole rest of the god damn world, and they didn’t have to compete with 50 million invaders.
Divemedic · November 12, 2025 at 8:09 pm
The median home size in 1972 was 1400 square feet. In 2025, that increased to 2200 square feet.
There are factors you aren’t considering, but you can’t blame someone else for your failures if you take those into account, so there is that
Birdog357 · November 13, 2025 at 8:24 am
You can only buy the homes that exist. You can’t blame a buyer when the only homes are larger than they were decades ago.
Divemedic · November 13, 2025 at 8:37 pm
Supply follows demand
Birdog357 · November 14, 2025 at 1:22 pm
That’s not actually true though. It’s not first time home buyers building the larger homes, it’s 2nd, 3rd or even 4th time home buyers building. First time home buyers even if they wanted a modest home, don’t have a choice because they can only choose from what’s left.
On a related note there’s all kinds of external factors screwing young people when it comes to buying a home. I bought my house in 2013 with a 4% fixed rate, a 1200 foot house on 5k feet of land built in 1931 as a summer cottage and added onto in the 70s. It’s not well built, the electrical is an unfunny joke and my utilities are sky rocketing for reasons that are a post on their own. I live in a very low cost of living area, in the poorest county in the state.
I literally could not afford to buy my house today. It’s more than doubled in value, taxes are almost double and insurance is up 50%. My wages have doubled, but groceries have quadrupled and everything else is at least double. My real purchasing power is flat, if not down slightly, but the house is 125% more today, just 13 years after I bought it. How does someone break out in those conditions?
Divemedic · November 14, 2025 at 8:44 pm
Do you have a source for your contention?
Birdog357 · November 15, 2025 at 8:20 am
Which contention? That first time home buyers aren’t builders, or that I couldn’t afford my own house if bought today?
Divemedic · November 15, 2025 at 11:42 am
That’s not actually true though. It’s not first time home buyers building the larger homes, it’s 2nd, 3rd or even 4th time home buyers building. First time home buyers even if they wanted a modest home, don’t have a choice because they can only choose from what’s left.
Explain how that is different than any other time in history. Isn’t that the concept of a starter home? My first home was 1500 square feet. My present home (my third) is more than twice that size.
Thats how it’s been for decades. It’s nothing new.
Steve` · November 15, 2025 at 12:21 pm
It’s all about supply. You can look it up. 2.5 million housing starts in the early 70s, settling to peaks of 1.5 million from the 90s on. We are tearing down the legacy homes from the greatest, silents and early booms faster than we are building new. Supply and demand, baby. It’s the real thing. Wanna fix it? Some of y’all are going to have to pick up a hammer.
Steve · November 15, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Incidentally, think about that a sec. People constantly whine about how affordable housing was in the early 70s. Which was the peak of homebuilding, at least since the early 50s. Coincidence, I’m sure.
BTW, the percentage of people with houses was higher than the 70s as recently as 2021. That is, home ownership was by definition more affordable just a handful of years ago than it’s been in the US as far back as records have been kept.
Steve · November 13, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Troy, the only thing you said that is more or less reasonable is that we weren’t competing for housing against a bajillion foreigners. But where was the rant about the role the federal government had in making that so? A federal government which listened to us as much as it does to you?
Also, the early 70s was the peak in US home construction at about 2.5 million homes. Now a good year is a little over half that. Do you have the faintest idea how supply and demand works? You are seeing it in action.
Skyler the Weird · November 13, 2025 at 7:10 am
It’s the Participation Trophy Generation. School taught self esteem not reading and math.
Birdog357 · November 14, 2025 at 1:25 pm
This is exactly why the country is going to fall to those nazi bastards that follow Fuentes. The young have real, legitimate complaints and old people insult them and don’t even take accountability for the problem they caused. Who do you think gave out the participation trophies? Boomers started giving them to my generation, the Millennials. Who were the teachers that started the self esteem bullshit? Boomers…
Honestly · November 16, 2025 at 11:41 pm
I don’t follow Fuentes, but when he shows up in my feed, the vast majority of his assertions are common sense.
I’ve double-checked, but I don’t have a white hood nor a swastica arm-band any where around me. Just an Eagle Scout award, an Honorable discharge from the USCG, and experience running a few businesses.
But I may still be a retard…who knows?
Abe · November 13, 2025 at 8:21 pm
His backgroung looks a lot larger that the dorm rooms I’ve been in and seen. How expensive is that school he is in? Who’s Paying? Maybe he should be studying plumbing or welding at a vocy teck sckool. I busted by butt to keep moving up in jobs to get to running a Mfg. plant.
He dosen’t like it here? Swim to Cuba or innertube.
Honk Honk · November 13, 2025 at 11:44 pm
Property is theft, comrade.
To each according to his need in the New Man workers utopia.
Birdog357 · November 15, 2025 at 11:02 pm
@DM, the reply is borked in our chain above. The point I was getting at is nobody is building starter homes anymore, it’s just trickling down larger and larger homes that are being built by older people, so the new buyers are shit outta luck because they simply can’t afford what’s left on the market. And what’s left on the market is grossly over valued anyway.
Divemedic · November 16, 2025 at 7:22 am
Really? This took me less than 5 minutes to find.
Steve · November 16, 2025 at 7:41 am
“new buyers are shit outta luck because they simply can’t afford what’s left on the market. And what’s left on the market is grossly over valued anyway.”
You have to choose one. Is building new homes too expensive, or are homes overvalued? If homes are truly overvalued, everyone should be building new, as that would be the less expensive.
I get that things are a lot screwy right at the moment. Blame Pedo Joe and his 30? 40? 50? million illegals and TPS (also illegal as applied; should have been asylees, not TPS) and especially the agencies and “charities” who used your tax money to outbid you for those residences.
ghostsniper · November 16, 2025 at 12:07 pm
You are too lazy to do the leg work. I have been in the construction business since the 70’s and of the thousands of homes I have worked on 80% of them have been UNDER 2000 s.f.
Young people are unwilling to do what it takes to get into a home of their own and would rather piss and moan and blame someone else. Lazy asses blame the imaginary “boomers”.
So shut it, and go play with your phone.
dork · November 16, 2025 at 11:32 pm
So….
The current (2025) average age of the first time home buyer is 40.
So….
The average age of a person buying his/her first home is way past the onset of geriatric pregnancy and getting well into menopause range.
But this is none of our business…
Divemedic · November 17, 2025 at 7:16 am
Not average age (which to most people is the total age of all first time buyers divided by the number of buyers, in other words the mean), the stat you are citing is the median age of first time buyers (that is, the age at which exactly half of buyers are buying their first home).
This is important, because the median age for first time buyers is nearly identical to the median age of the nation. That is, as the nation gets older, so do first time home buyers. In other words, the data set is a normal distribution.
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