there are actually people who get it more than once every day on average, literally a hundreds of dollars a month expense

and the fucking dumbest part of it is that that's still not enough to put a dent in a downpayment

Giving rich assholes more credit than they deserve: this advice is from the 90s. Boomers had to tighten their belts, pick up extra shifts, and scrimp and save to get a down payment for a "starter home". If someone one is a fucking idiot who doesn't understand anything about the economy for the last 30 years, they tell their kids and grandkids to do what they did...there's no such thing as a systemic issue, all you need is grit and give the manager a handshake yadda yadda yadda.

Isn't everybody drinking 25,000 worth of Starbucks a year?

To be fair...back in the 90's, all you had to do to afford a mortgage was to stop drinking Starbucks.