@coolboymew @CentaurBreeder @mangeurdenuage @Ricotta Put it this way, to my generation with people I've met online, the "boomer parent dumping his kid" shit wasn't that common.
What was common were two things: the first one was the extreme pressure to go to college and get a degree in something, followed by student loan debt, a useless degree, and piece of shit parents having to deal with what they created.
The second one was what happened with me, years of NEETdom surrounded by people online, friendships slowly burning away with me being 100% oblivious to how and why from my own antisocial behavior, and my life being micromanaged by boomers who alternated between not giving a shit (if you didn't bother their TV watching binge sessions) or micromanaging every single detail of my life and bitching when I dared do anything that they might not approve of (bonus points if they had a family member like a sibling they gave free passes to).
In both cases, your boomer parents also will want you to do "chores" for free (be a groundskeeper and housekeeper for free as a friend put it) so they can binge watch more TV shows and chit chat on the phone.
Fueling this is the economy, how even big box stores will diversity hire/turn you down for some bullshit reason (the exception was that time in 2020-1 when they were wanting to hire anyone with a pulse during the COVID scare), the boomer mindset implanted in the kids that you're above working wagie jobs, and prices going up.
The real black pill is realizing Final Fantasy houses exist because kids want to escape the boomer parents with no money, so they decide to be roommates and you know what follows.
@Pawlicker @CentaurBreeder @coolboymew @mangeurdenuage @Ricotta