45 Pics That Show That We’re Already Living In A Dystopic Nightmare (New Pics)

It's so well-written as well, sounds like a passage from a dystopian novel, but the dystopia is our reality.

Wow, 7-11 doing more than the US government 👏🙃🥲

I was prescribed an inhaler, Spuriva, but I didn't have insurance. $565. I did not get it.

This made me tear up. Lovely child. I cry over these babies daily

It's sickening how screwed up the economy is. All we can do is hope it gets better in time, but unfortunately, that seems like wishful thinking. I'm so used to living in apartments (and now a trailer in a trailer park because rents for apartments are ridiculously high) that I have no idea what it's like to live in a house. Maybe one day I'll be lucky enough. But only maybe.

My parents' house, unfortunately/fortunately, has only gone from $100k to $300k in 30 years because it's a small piece of land. But other houses in our neighbourhood have huge plots of land so they're worth more (because everything gets torn down once sold and either turned into a bigger house, or a multiplex with each unit selling for as much as the original house), and the thing people don't talk enough about is the property taxes. A lot of people are forced out of their homes by skyrocketing values because the amount of property taxes skyrocket too.

Problem: Capitalism. Solution: err. Probably NOT Communism. Extinction seems to be the best bet.

My coffee machine cost the same as my father's first car. My father, who supported a family of four in a beautiful house, two kids in great schools, and two long family vacations a year while working 35 hours a week at a worthwhile job that made the world a better place.

This is why so many people that are like 30-40 still live with their oarents - it’s too expensive to not do that (atleast in the Uk)

if you are in the US, look into buying a FHA repo or VA repo... you don't have to be a veteran to bid on a VA repo... Some of them are in really bad condition, but if you are handy with tools & home repair, you can easily build some sweat equity fixing them up... and you can reap a huge profit when you finally flip them...

My parents bought their house in 1992 for $72,000. They sold it September 2021 for just under $200,000. My husband and I have been looking at houses and the only affordable ones are apartment sized, very old, fixer uppers, frequently bought for more than asking price, bought with cash, some sight unseen, most purchases bought same day as they were put up for sale, and over $400,000. Don't move to Denver or the surrounding area. Apartments cost more than mortgage prices and homes aren't worth the price.

Yesterday I learned why is the reality market so screwed (at least in our country). There is a huge investment opportunity in reality, fueled purely by rent. So when you pay rent for your home, it may be going not directly to that landlord, but also to bunch of people investing in reality market. Honestly, I expected that with office and business space, but not with living space.

Almost 20 years ago my parents house was bought for 60k in 2004. 2 years later it was worth less than the loan, an upside down mortgage. Minimum wage was 6.15 , the career my dad had that I went in was carpentry . 28.50 an hour. Now, the house is worth 300k+ property taxes are insane, min wage is 9.75, and union com carpentry is 32.00. so for less than a 10% increase in wages, houses go up 5-600 %. Gas had quadrupled, electricity, quadrupled. . Scary stuff

Our first house cost $42,000 and it was a struggle to keep up with the $150/month payments. And, my college tuition was $225/per semester. The house today would cost $311,215.67 and tuition would be $2,281.78. We're not living in the same world that we lived in, even 10 years ago. Society changes, as does the economy. Our economy seems like a runaway freight train.

1950’s… graduated high school, got an average job, got married, bought a house, bought a car, had kids, mom stayed home to raise the kids (if she chose to). Now a days graduate college collect huge loan debt… get a job, if you marry and have kids, both parents have to work, working a combined 80 hrs a week, and still live pay check to paycheck.

I will never be able to afford a house.

I feel that!!! I'm able to buy a small mobile home, but I can't afford the land to put it on!!!

You can have that slice of avocado toast, or you can have affordable housing, healthcare and school—but you can’t have both! Stop being so entitled. (EDIT: I thought it was clear I being sarcastic.)

Since Reagan the rich have sucked trillions from the middle class. The we are heading for a two class system.

What's really sad is to think that boomers are still saying we don't work hard enough. I work 40 hours a week, my wife up until she became disabled worked 60, and even with all of that, I'm 32 and the chances of me being able to afford a house under any circumstances is still next to none... Anyone who wants to tell me I don't work hard enough can suck my....

I honestly hate how the Baby Boomer generation is all like "You kids these days are lazy, useless and ungrateful!" while we're the ones taking care of them, struggling in a world that they almost completely destroyed. We would be grateful, but because we've been screwed over, there's not much to be grateful for. Inflation in wages has only brought misery, and we don't even get paid enough to afford a house until we're older, and even then there are people who are still too poor to afford much. If the Department of Housing didn't exist here in Australia, I would be on the streets. And even now, I still struggle week to week.

The mortgage show is a s.it show now. We bought an flat for a terrible price with help of my partner's parents, their savings for him, me selling my old flat..and we were lucky. We are lucky, because he is paid better than I am and the mortgage is higher than my month salary. But aside from that, we were lucky. We got an advertisement for new flats nearby his office. 4times higher prices in span of 5 months. The mortgage they advertise is about 120 000 czk (4874 eur) per month. Not only it is more than we make together per month, but I cannot imagine, who would be able to pay this. Who do have this kind of money won't need the mortgage. And who would need the mortgage, won't be able to pay this per month. Unbelievable.

I am English although I don't live there any more. In 1979 I bought a small 3 befroom

I'm soooo glad I did not listen to my colleagues and friends warnings back in 1997, when I bought my house, on my own, with a low salary. It meant 4 hours commuting to and forth Brussels everyday, it was hard because when I finally got promoted, all the extra money went into renovating the house (some things twice thanks to crooks). The mortgage was finally paie in June 2019. Now, earning more than three times the salary I had when I bought my house, I could not afford to do the same thing. We're not in the US but housing prices have just exploded. Now, a mortgage is a minimum 30 to 40 years with two incomes. And in England, before the housing collapse, the mortgage costed so much that it was inherited by the children. A housing expert told me that now, the houses prices were in fact higher than the building of a new one. Insane.

My husband and I live with my son so we can all afford a roof over our heads!

My mom bought her first house at 20 and is constantly asking why I don't have one yet at 36 😑

LOLing at the ones blaming the boomers and grandparents for not listening to them on money matters & the American govt that took out home ec/economics from many public schools