Going to move away from my parents because I hate living with them. This is the ideal type of family.
Unironically, this is the model capitalism prefer. For some reason media cry incredible outrage when people live with parents.
Yeah it has a lot of benefits for capitalist class. More homes are sold, more home loans are taken out, as people become atomised they become more dependent on cars, as families are broken functions are families are moved on to the plates of businesses (for example childcare). When I was younger I used to spend a lot of time with my friends and at my friends’ homes if my parents were busy which they often were. This kind of social cohesion within and between families becomes a bit rarer everyday.
I know that Asian and specifically Chinese youth continuing to live with their parents and grandparents – ostensibly represented as the filial piety part of a lot of Asian cultures – is always discussed in Western media with a sardonic sneer. Either straight up Orientalism or posited as an example of the failure of socialist-minded societies. “They don’t even have their own homes”, “none of them can afford to move out”, etc. How quickly the Christian-bourgeois state is to voice support for “family values”, only to then demand that children move away from their parents to be considered successful.
West have this notion of adulthood and personal responsibility, which by itself it inevitable and good to a certain degree, but as many things in the west it has been risen to the level of incredible fanaticism and meaningless fetish.
