Living with parents kind of puts the kibosh on dating?

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Yes, but in chunks.

I know something less attractive than my meager living arrangements; worrying about money. I'd be an absolute train wreck if I did that the way baby boomers do. I'd have no social life whatsoever if I judged myself that way. As of today I don't even have a thousand dollars, I only know how to save it. I can work but at my age forget prevailing wage, I get paid for half of my work's market value at most.

Almost no one is going to pay fairly for what I know, certainly not anyone over 40, so why would I become more attractive by trapping myself in their MO? It's already a mess, how many here seriously believe we can keep using money this same way for the next decade?

It's a poor indicator of social adjustment anyway.

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Only the 1% (very richest) of my generation can afford to consider funding retirement. My work doesn't even pay enough for the computers I need to get it done. It's not even about food or money for me, just some professional cred & my skills for the company. Being 24 in the tech industry is no different from being 17, I should know, I've done both. Eight years of pretty consistent work never once was enough for rent here.

I'm all for getting rid of the U.S. dollar. All it does for me is subjugation to richer people.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Cberg: Ever consider a civil service job?

You would get a pension and benefits.

Government is always looking for programmers/coders (and perhaps even hackers and code-breakers).

Trouble there is that there's an entire globe of us working on subverting corrupt governments precisely due to these levels of inequality. I also occasionally require a federally scheduled plant to be of much use.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

You've just gotta meet the right person.

Hell, even these homeless guys managed to find girlfriends.

These are just hippies choosing this lifestyle.

There's a woman on YouTube who lives in her car who travels cross-country.

She has three separate jobs.

She lives in the car simply because she likes to travel.

Her name is Katie Carney.

I'll admit, it worries me a bit because there's a stigma with that, but several adults live at home because rent is outrageous in price and basically a waste of money and saving to buy a house is the better way to go. I say if you live at home but contribute heavily to the house like sharing all expenses and working/going to college full-time, I see nothing wrong with it. It's the ones who are unemployed(by choice) or people like that 30 year old guy who had to get kicked out by a court order for doing absolutely nothing: those are the ones I can see having no dating life.