Capitalism realized a while ago that a huge swath of young millennials and elder Gen Z are just broke enough to not comfortably start a family or buy a house but just flush with enough cash to fill the emotional holes left by shitty boomer parents with overpriced children’s toys.
https://bsky.app/profile/wapplehouse.bsky.social/post/3ly23expml22j
fun fact, that's also why the price of veterinary care has been increasing at an alarming rate lately – millennials can't afford houses or kids, so we have (relatively inexpensive) pets and treat them as kids, so of course the parasite class wants to make owning and caring for a pet expensive.
Yeah, corporations are buying up all the vets and jacking up the prices