Is a fun carefree life with lots of expressive friends possible in real life...

so replacing their workers with those automated order machines?

Do you people have like a hate boner for people trying to be doctors and scientists?

You know there is no trade school for physics, or geology right?

Or did you people seriously go to school trying to earn money rather than learn something interesting that you can make a career out of.

Going to college for the sake of college (which is what most students do) is a waste of time and money and only serves to pile on debt to stupid, desperate kids.

Going to college because you know your passion and what you desire to do with your life is another matter entirely.

Or with teenagers on minimum wage who can be instantly replaced when they get fed up.

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This happened to almost literally an entire generation or two, and it isn't getting better.

Doesn't help that with student loans, colleges have zero reason to be selective about students; nearly everything is basically a diploma mill these days in that they want you out the door with a piece of paper no matter how dumb you are because they already have the money, and it's the government expecting the repayments.

Natures an anarchy and life is always a hussle. Much better to have the freedom to jew and be jew'd then have commisar equality not even giving you the option of not having cable.

As far as the OP's question. Every shared living situation I've been in was torn-apart by drugs and pussy. Coupled with the average person in that situation is hardly a mature adult, it tends to not be a long lasting situation. I don't read scott pilgrim but I imagine they overlook those aspects.

The 'freedom' to be fucked over from birth. They let the mice dream of being cats. It doesn't actually happen.

Yep. And its a good thing too. The freedom to fuck and be fucked.

Social mobility has never been lower; you are never going to be rich. At this point you are lucky to even be self-sufficient, because the rich need to rack up their high scores and are robbing you in every sense they can possibly can to do it.

This is true and not true. Western nations don't officially have a caste system so I'm not sure how well the term "social mobility" applies. But assuming you avoid the pitfalls laid out for you by the traditional consumerist upbringing its entirely possible to own property/ be fit and healthy/ have money saved by the time you're 30ish with a reasonable amount of effort and planning.

I once read a TL;DR story (I was 16, I was going to live forever) about a guy in the 80's and 90's who was a pyromaniac. Anyway at one point he said he lived in a "geek house" with other pyros who all loved the same shows, music, primitive videogames and blowing shit up. A house-share with fellow people who have your interests would be awesome… but these days you can't "rely" on geeks not to turn into SJW's. Also "geekdom" is a lot more fragmented. You might love Trek but end up living with Bronies and not having a clue what they're on about.