Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

Ambitious-Ad6900 t1_j24sgav wrote

I have my children at home while they go to uni and I am encouraging them to not leave until they have a stable income and have saved for their down payment to ensure housing. I really see no need to send them out to the world to struggle when they have a house and we can suppor them as much as we can. We don't ask them to contribute to the house, our priority is that they save as much as possible while they can. The day they decide to leave, hopefully they will do it with resources to provide for themselves. Though it is a cultural thing in large part, in my culture children are not expected to leave the parents house a certain age, so for us is absolutely normal having our children home and hopefully for them the benefits of staying home outweight the social pressure to leave when they are not ready yet.

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rude_duner t1_j24r03k wrote

If you read further down you would’ve seen that I conceded there being value to the post. With that being said I don’t regret the way I approached it. My critiques were fair and I stand by them.

And I’m not jealous of anything he has to be proud of. To be frank I’m younger and earn more. I’m simply pointing out that he essentially posted a visualization of his personal privilege, which, again, I have already conceded may be valuable info to some so that they can understand why others have so much more saved than they do.

I wasn’t being hostile, I was genuinely questioning OP’s intent, because it didn’t seem very positive to me. I liked his response though, and we’ve made peace. You can chill

ETA: and about the culture thing—I have absolutely nothing against living with your parents. I wish I could. I have something against earning an above average salary and not contributing. Without an explanation for that it’s an objectively a bad look. I stand by that.

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Ambitious-Ad6900 t1_j24q8a9 wrote

Do you realize the post clearly says "of A millennial" meaning it is specific to only one person not respresentative to a population? In this scenario, the author does not owe any explanations to you about their housing or family situation. Your questioning is hostile. What do you care if their parents are wealthy? Do you go around asking individuals of they are wealthy or how much they contribute to their parents?

It certainly is unfortutante that many people do not have this option, but the post does not seem intended to ilustrate a situation at population level, it is just about one person. Why is it shitty that they made this post? why is it a problem that not everyone has to struggle? are you bitter about every person who is in a better position than you?

I have news for you, in a lot of cultures, including mine, people do not have to leave their parents house, I mean they are not expected to leave, they can stay as long as they want, and we parents encourage our children to stay as long as they can so they can take advantage of having a roof and food while they are trying to build their life. It is not uncommon for people to live with their parents, even while earning a good income, and the reason goes beyond financial reasons, some times is even about company and taking care of your parents if they need that. If you marry you leave, if you don't marry you can leave or you can stay, hell sometimes if you marry you can bring your spouse (this is not ideal, but it happens a lot and no one judges that). People do not have to be wealthy to support their children like this. It is a cultural thing, more than a reflection of wealth, so your questioning is very inappropiate.

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Suspicious-Feeling-1 t1_j24o0my wrote

It's interesting you say that, one of the primary architects of the modern metric (Kuznets) had a similar critique, in that no one should use national income metrics as a shorthand for all encompassing prosperity. Totally agree on that point.

I think calling military expenditure a black hole is a little bit reductive. Many of our technological advances were at least partially accomplished by military funding. We probably wouldn't even be having this online thread without the billions of $ the US military put into ARPANET.

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PlanetElement OP t1_j24jpga wrote

>Also kinda weird that category exists when unknown exists.

I included this category since there are so many characters that are either pure-blood or half-blood (but definitely nothing else), for example: Peter Pettigrew.

>Why is Unknown/No house between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?

No reason, I thought it looked better that way.

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