Generational divides during collapse

I'm a Millennial and I was talking with my Gen X dad when he suddenly made the remark that "Young people don't want to buy houses and would rather stay in apartments forever."

I had to stop him and explain that insanely high costs and high interest rates have basically locked young people out of the housing market. He replies that young people should find higher-paying jobs to pay more cash up-front. I tell him that house prices have increasingly outpaced wage growth for decades. He says that's why it's good to get a house ASAP, because they appreciate in value. I tell him that's not a good thing when you're the buyer and have no hope of paying it off.

The whole exchange was emblematic of a lot of things I've seen online and in the news where older generations seem to be stuck in some fantasy version of America and get confused why younger people don't get married, have kids, buy a house with a white picket fence and all that BS. We can straight-up see the wheels coming off of society around us, and there doesn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel.

I was on the Millennial sub a couple days ago and saw them dunking on Gen Z for not coming of age during the 2008 crisis and I'm like, they didn't raise themselves, nor did they make the world they grew up in. Imagine trying to get going in life during a global pandemic, the idiotic rise of techno-fascism, and the possible destruction of the global ecosystem.

I don't think Gen Z pays enough attention to the world, but neither did previous generations that allowed corporate greed to slowly seep its way into every facet of our lives, strip away our rights, and destroy our planet.

I hope everyone wakes up soon and maybe we can at least go out on a high note, but it seems like we're just gonna pretend everything is normal and just die out with our heads in the sand.