@EdBoatConnoisseur @synapsid @WashedOutGundamPilot @AmericanChampion Well, Audie Murphy was 5'5" and was a war hero and movie star. He married twice and had two sons. Still, he's an outlier.
It's bad out there. I'm living in a house with a reasonable mortgage payment compared to what the going rent rate is where I live, working at a decent job with good benefits. However I am still single and don't hold out much hope any more for having a wife and some kids. I have younger friends who still live with their parents and don't see any way out. TBH I can't even see any way for them out.
I have certain niche skills that make me competitive on the job market, but most guys don't, and can't even get their foot in the door to try. So they can't find a job that pays enough to move out. Even if they can find a job that pays ok, the rent is so high they can't accumulate enough savings to be able to make a down payment to buy a house. Inflation keeps getting worse because our gay clown-world leadershit needs the big numbers to always GO UP!!! Whaddaya mean the economy is shit now? Big number is still going up, the boomers investments are still safe, so the economy must still be good and you're just a whining slacker who needs to bootstrap himself, have a firm handshake, etc!
So I can understand why young guys and especially manlets can fall into despair. All I can really tell them is not to give up, because in the end that's what the people in charge, who hate us all, want us to do. What worked for me was to stop worrying about what I don't have, can't find and can't do, and focus on what I already had, and build from there.