PBD Podcast guest calls affordability “a matter of choice” for young people
Dan Peña: “They're not looking hard enough and not working hard enough to get a job.”
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From the December 10, 2025, edition of PBD Podcast streamed on YouTube
PATRICK BET-DAVID (HOST): Dan, how do you address this?
DAN PEÑA (GUEST): Well, I don't like to disagree with him on the first topic, but, my kids, when they got out of undergraduate school, my daughter took seven months to find a job, and our son took nine months to find a job. And they both found jobs and it was a recessionary time, in both cases, by making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, hundreds and hundreds of letters out, going on dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews. And the kids today, because I have a fairly large consortiums, I got almost 40 companies, and the kids go one interview and they don't even call back to find out how they did.
So they, the elitist of that generation, in my opinion, are lazy. I mean, we don't have an affordability problem in my opinion. All I know is when I bought my first house and my dad bought his first house that we couldn't afford, he went out and worked overtime. He got another job. The kids don't want to have another job. They expect right out of school to make all kinds of, crazy money, six figure money, and they have no experience whatsoever. So I don't— the affordability to me, is a matter of choice. They're not looking hard enough and not working hard enough to get a job.