I mean I save plenty, but there's no way in hell I'll ever be able to own a home without a serious bubble burst somewhere. I have a career in a skilled field that pays generally pretty good, but even a 1 bed apartment where I'm at requires a six figure income let alone a house.

Of course I'd be down to buy a studio apartment since I really don't need that much space, but zoning laws prevent anything like that from being constructed unless I move into the city which I don't want to do (it would just be even more expensive anyways.)

I don't buy into the "just don't save, treat yourself" mentality since it's so obviously self destructive, but unless something big happens it's unlikely that the major life milestones will ever be within my grasp. That really does put a damper on any hope for the future and makes dating and marriage seem pointless too. Can't even afford a place of my own how am I going to support a wife and maybe kids? Assuming she doesn't work which she would almost have to anyways.

I was hoping that in the wake of an entire generation having a fraction of the buying power of their predecessors we would see a ton of businesses collapsing and people would realize how stupid of an idea reducing earning potential and kneecapping everyone with five times the cost of education was, but unfortunately I've seen how poor of consumers most people are and they'll keep these shitty businesses alive due to entitlement that they deserve to live luxuriously instead of letting them die to prove the point that we don't have enough money to survive.