No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)

Your $1000 per month rent can only be compared with the interest part of a mortgage you'd get for the exact same housing you are paying rent for. If the rent is less than the interest would be, then yes, you are better off renting. You also have to be able to invest any money that would have gone to a mortgage to make more than the price of your rent in profit every month, because that is your loss each month on rent. It is achievable if you're shrewd and can stay cold headed. Compounding effects help you, but you're also vulnerable to rent hikes. If you stay for more than a few years with the same landlord, they will catch on to that you have a stable situation and are saving/investing, and they won't be able to sleep at night thinking about all that juicy income that you're saving and investing, that could belong to them.

I've shoveled snow and cleaned gutters, even put on a new coat of paint a few times. It is not worth paying somebody $1000 per month for that. That's a salary for somebody working 50% of full time just taking care of maintenance on the unit you're renting. You're also comparing renting a smaller place vs buying a bigger house. That's also part of the problem. Landlords have hogged all of the apartments and smaller housing in order to extract the lifeblood of young workers, when such units would also be available for sale and not rent in a healthy environment.

To give a specific example: Solving discrimination against Maronites by instituting a system of power sharing which discriminated against Shiites and Druze set Lebanon up for failure. Can you think of an instance where reactionary counter-discrimination solved an issue long-term? Why be skeptical of the assertion of "two wrongs don't make a right"? It's generally observable in all cases that retributive "justice" simply creates resentment, deepens issues and erodes belief and trust in social institutions.

It's gonna be cringe. it's gonna be awkward. it'll be fine, you'll survive.

Poverty is a wholly different problem, with different solutions, and comparing poverty to loneliness isn't doing you any favors. If we're gonna play that game, how about comparing it to obesity? society bears some responsibility for McDonald's, and for not giving good education on nutrition, but the reality there is that there are some wonderful new drugs to help with that problem. even with the new drugs and before them, at the end of the day, it still is a personal decision on whether or not to do something about the problem.

so the government isn't going to come in and start forcing people to attend friendship-making ceremonies. the solution to your loneliness is pushing yourself to go out and find people. don't go off trying to fix the systemic societal level problem for everybody, just solve for one. fortunately you don't have to wait around for a magic anti-lonliness drug to be research and formulated and then undergo trials before approval by the FDA. the drug for loneliness is alcohol. go do a lubricating amount of it around other people.

that said, living with a single parent did plenty of damage to us children, so in that sense we most certainly had a broken home. but the cure for that would probably have been for our parent to find a new partner (which they tried but didn't succeed in because any potential candidates were not interested in children), but most certainly not for my parents to get back together (and i know they tried. from first separation to final divorce it took more than half a decade, and that's probably the time where we kids suffered the most).