So as a builder, how does that matter? How does that affect me? The buyer isn't just financing the

house. They're financing every mistake, every change order, and every regulation, and every

material increase. Welcome back to Midweek Modern Craftsman, where today I'm going to be

diving into a post. I recently saw circling around social media,

specifically Facebook, specifically reposted by my mom, to which I'm generally not going to argue with my mom,

especially not on Facebook, but I did feel the need to comment on a post that I

believed it was ignorant and that there should be more empathy for today's generation of young

men and women who are struggling to be able to afford the American dream, buying a house,

raising a family. So the post is, and I'm going to read this

here, I'm so tired of hearing our grandparents could buy a house on one salary, but now we can't

even afford rent on two. Yeah, because grandma wasn't blowing half her paycheck on $12 ice coffees

and avocado toast.

That's why back then if you wanted coffee, they made it at home with ground so strong

it could remove rust. You didn't drink it, you survived it. And grandma wasn't out there,

brunching. You think she had time for brunch? brunch no she was at home cooking something called

whatever's left in the house and don't even bring up uber eats these people today are crying

about money while living in a four-bedroom house with two SUVs six streaming services and matching

sleeve tattoos you think grandpa had a tattoo? Yeah, it said Korea,

1951, and it came with nightmares, not realistic shading. Oh, and don't even get me started on the kids.

We can't make ends meet, but Braden needs the new iPhone. No, he doesn't. You're giving an $1,100 phone

to a kid who still eats glue and boogers. When we were kids, the family phone

hung on the wall. It had a cord long enough to jump rope with, and if you wanted privacy, you had to go

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