This is my problem with this whole debate. Yes I acknowledge that young people face serious challenges starting out in the workforce. Yes I agree that we are importing foreigners to take American jobs and that is hideously evil and unfair.
Once we’ve agreed on that, what then? What is a young adult supposed to actually do tomorrow? What is your plan? Complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan. Calling for policy solutions is fine and I agree that we should work on those. But what about tomorrow? What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?
I say that he must get up in spite of it all, get the best job he possibly can, and work as hard he can to achieve what he can. He has a difficult road. Far from the most difficult compared to the vast majority of humans who have ever lived on Earth, but difficult. I acknowledge that. But he still has to get up and walk. What else would we have him do?
Listen Matt, this is very simple. You don't need to tell young white men to get up and walk. People learn how to do that by age 2. You need to start fighting to abolish the H-1B visa program.
Yes, you're one of the few Con Inc influencers who says H-1Bs should be stopped. But strangely enough, you spend your time defending the ones who think it's amazing? Why?
Get to work ending the H-1B, or shut up.
If you've never lived in a "migrant" neighborhood, there will be a good dozen people living in a 3br/2ba house. They will illegally convert (and I use the term loosely, because it's just a bunch of bunk-beds in a normal garage) the garage to a bedroom to fit all the people living there. And they will have like 5 cars parked in both the driveway (the garage is a "bedroom", so they can't park cars there) or the street all the time, making it difficult for you to entertain more than a few guests at a time without them having to park far away from your home due to all the street parking.
I'll always remember something the CEO of one of the companies I used to work for said: "you never want to be forced to compete on price". And that is why: because you can always find someone willing to live in greater squalor to accept slightly less than you to outbid you.
I lived very much as you did in my early 20s when I saved for my first house. Never did I want to live with 11 other people to do so, nor did I think it was reasonable I be expected to.