>>6797203
The real blood lines live among you, anon. I'll simply put it at that, as I've done enough grandstanding for today.
I'm not going to enter into a "poor pitiful me" debate as there's one at least every bread.
There are numerous changes coming - but what I will say is that the key to success for families is multi-fold.
First - think generationally. A son or daughter who must pay rent to another is money that is being paid from your children's future. Children should be encouraged to expand their experiences with purpose.
1a - children (late teens and adults) living at the family home should be expected to pay rent when not in studies. Rent should not go toward the parent's bills, but some form of asset store for the child. Responsibility and discipline are important, as is keeping them from stagnation. However, rent is taxation by another name and it directly damages the wealth of the next generation of a family.
Second - skills are wealth. Hard work is only part of the equation. Welding, reading of instructions and diagrams/schematics/prints, electronics and troubleshooting, CAD and CAM - all of these things are direct application to any job field whether it is self-employ or under a company. Parents must not only never stop learning or consider their own skill set complete - but must inspire their children to develop skills and trades.
Third - do not wait for another man or company to advance your career. Some will recognize hard work or untapped potential and seek to reward/develop it. Some will not. Consider everything you do in a job as entries onto a resume for another - or a higher position within the existing business. You are not going to complain your way to greater purchasing power.
Fourth - the cost of capability is an investment. The cost of a service is a consumable. $500 worth of tools can perform tens of thousands worth of services. Services are luxuries or for emergencies. Size according to your budget for luxuries.
Fifth - it starts with you.
Fair or not - you can't go back and teach your parents that so you can have gotten the benefits of such philosophies.
You have to start thinking about how to use the above to improve your condition and to prepare for a future generation that can have a better start than you did.
That will not change no matter what about the economic system changes. Even though I am a firm believer that things will get much better even for the mundane wage earner who does nothing but float - to truly take advantage of your life and improve things for our world - you have to think outside the "I want" and focus on "what will my children need?"