Having roommates (aka sharing a home) when you leave your family home has been the norm forever. Roommates are not poverty

>Having roommates (aka sharing a home) when you leave your family home has been the norm forever. Roommates are not poverty

Poverty has been the norm forever. The idea of economic progress for the common person is barely 3 generations old.

Buying an old beater car as your first car has been the norm forever. But that’s because young people still have no wealth, ie they are poor, not because they don’t want a shiny Audi.