That Gen Z Walmart Rant: What It’s Really About
Is it about cost of living or about this unhealthy obsession to live alone?
A young lady, a Walmart employee, posted this sad tirade on Tiktok about how she cannot earn enough to afford to live by herself.
She works forty hours a week and laments that her paycheck cannot stretch far enough for her to “live on [her] own”.
She has to pay rent, groceries, gas, bills — you know: the regular expenses most of us have. She can “barely pay [her] bills”.
Her gripe is that previous generations (“twenty years ago”) did not have this problem.
Most of the reactions on social media address how this is not anything unique to her age demographic. Gen Xers and Millenials — even Boomers — are sharing how they had to live with cockroaches, sleep on floors, couldn’t afford a car, but that given time and pluck they were able to get on their feet, pay their bills, and move into a decent home. And maybe even buy one.
