Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.

  • ALQ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “I’m sorry — if you only want to work four hours, it’s going to be harder for you to get a house,” she said

    What a joke. I spent the better part of the last three years working 70 hour weeks until I burned myself to a crisp. I’m much better off financially than many people my age, yet I am somehow still years away from homeownership and starting a family - if I ever can.

    Maybe Whoopi should retire and let a millennial do her job for her pay. Not me; I don’t think I’d be able to work as hard as her. 🙄

    I wish famous people would just shut up if they’re going to say stupid shit. I don’t want her tainting my TNG rewatch.

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      1 year ago

      Who the fuck does she know that only works four hours?

      Even if wages kept up with inflation, housing prices sure as hell have not. The house I own sold for $62k back in 1988 which is about $163k today. We bought it for well over twice that eight years ago. We could probably sell it for $600k. It is one of the cheaper houses in the city. How the fuck are people starting out supposed to afford that? I get that she has little concept of housing prices anymore but you would think worry her growing up in public housing, she would be a little more sympathetic to people having a hard time. But I guess she is taking the “fuck you, I got mine route.”

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      1 year ago

      You sure you couldn’t just talk bullshit for like an hour every weekday? I do that shit for free now.