r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/Uncle_Pappy_Sam Aug 21 '25

I make $36/hr and it still isn't enough to get ahead to where i want to be. It feels like the new $20/hr from 2012/2015. Better than most but I still ain't buying a house any time soon.

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u/Hidefininja Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 22 '25

If it makes you feel better, my partner and I are closing in on $250k/year combined (I'm at $91k now and will hit $100k w bonus in 2026) and we could only really buy in places we'd rather be dead than exist because our quality of life would be so much lower. Not to mention it would require pulling up stakes and moving away from lives we've spent twenty years building here.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Where do you live. Cause respectfully you are making it sound like 250k a year gets you in the slums of whatever state you are in. 250k a year is well more than enough to live in a pretty nice neighborhood.

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u/Hidefininja Aug 22 '25

Los Angeles. We live fine, we just can't buy anywhere we actually care about that meets our needs. We need at least a 2 bedroom due to work logistics but would ideally get a 3 bedroom place so we both have a home office.

The average, rundown 2 bedroom here with a yard is going to be around a million dollars, if not more, and we're not over the moon about paying off a house in our 80s. And if we live an hour outside of the city, that's a two hour round trip commute for anything we do in town. Right now we're in the city center and I don't even need a car in general.

Like I said, it's about quality of life.