I work in tech and I had almost the same experience. A sales guy came into the office I share with a few colleagues for a chat and started to talk about the renovations they were doing on their house. He's a nice guy and he was really happy about his new floors or whatever. In a different timeline I would have loved to talk DIY and construction stuff with him, I love that shit, but in this one I just became sad knowing that my chances of ever owning my own home, let alone do expensive remodeling on it, are laughably low.

The worst part of it is that he's a really shitty salesman whereas I'm pretty decent at what I do. Yet he's the one living in the big nice house whereas we're living in an apartment that is too small.

I hate myself for being this envious. I hate capitalism for constructing this bullshit inequality and I hate it for making me feel bad and ashamed about being in this hopeless situation.