You hit the entire problem.
I'm Gen-X, so we have the "Go to college/trade school/military", buy a house to live in, invest when possible, drive your car till it's dead but maintain it, spend in moderation thing going on.
But I've noticed a lot of people of my daughter's generation (Gen-Y/Millenials) or my baby brother's generation have this horrible habit of crying how broke they are while sporting:
- $200/mo worth of plastic bullshit kid's toys
- Full sleeve and color tattoos that cost $100's
- Name brand clothes and stuff
- New phone every six months
- Renting a car, not owning, renting
- Eating processed crap instead of cooking
- Eating out instead of cooking
- $100's of dollars on iTunes
- More video games than my retired ass with a game collection from the 80's
- Plastic "collectibles" that are just glorified toys that they don't play with
- No children just 'fur babies' who complain about not having friends
- Friendless childless weirdos with no skin in the game whining about taxes
It's like watching a goddamn child screaming at their parents that their parents hate them for not buying them the latest bullshit.
Most of these Gen-Y fuckers haven't gone a day without food. Most of them think 3 days of power blackout is horrific (Remember back in the 80's when you lost power EVERY winter for like 2 weeks?) because they live in bugman hives. I mean, even out in the country, they startle the fuck out of me sometimes.
They aren't functional grownups. They're arrested children who actively scream and throw fits if you try to make them grow up. For every functional grownup you find you find a dozen FuncoPop hoarding Switch slobbering dildo ordering weirdo with so many tattoos and facial piercings you wonder if there some kind of weird tribesman.
Part of me wonders how much of these riots is the last screeching of childhood from people who should have grown up over a decade ago.
They don't understand the world because even after their expensive indoctrinations, they aren't intellectually equipped for the idea that they might be wrong, the internet and their echo chambers prevent them from realizing they might ever be in error, and they literally can't handle being told no and being told to take personal responsibility.
Like I said before in this thread, the whole thing is so goddamn stupid.
When a white guy fights with the cops, brandishes or grabs a weapon, and gets shot 381 times in the face, what do white people do? Call each other going "Hey, remember my cousin with the face tattoos! GUESS WHAT! THE COPS SHOT HIM! AHAHHAHAHA!"
White society basically says "Obey the fucking law, dipshit."
And these fucking protesting weirdos are too childish to realize that throwing a fucking 6 month long tantrum isn't going to get them their way.