Comparing your life to how life was 50yrs ago is pointless. Whatever results the comparison reveals are not going to change your current living situation. Compare your living situation to 100 years ago and you’re doing great, yet your current situation remains the same. Study the here and now, current opportunities, where opportunities will exist in the future, and strive for some level of financial literacy. All this can be done for free.
This entire line of thought comes from the fact that we have parents who are actively in our lives every damn day saying that nobody deserves to earn over $7.50 / hr because they only earned like $2-$3 / hr in the 70s. They are an active detriment that is preventing any means of progress.
They will not entertain information about buying power, inflation, or ballooning revenues / puckering salaries. This is a sore spot with millennials for this reason. We are not the ones bringing this up, our parents, who did enjoy life 50 years ago, are.
You can pretend that this is about having a toilet indoors all you’d like, they had access to pensions back then.
My mom didn’t work. My dad made minimum wage. I grew up in a 5 bedroom, 2 story house. My mom and dad each had a car, and my dad always had a truck to haul shit around.
I have been called a liar at least 100 times in the last 10 years when I say this online.
My mom and dad paid less than 30k for that house. It needed a little work, but we were able to move into it as soon as they closed on the loan.
They were able to borrow against their equity any time they needed anything.
Sure, we didn’t have fancy vacations. We mostly went to South Holston (Tennessee) and camped and fished. A few times we went to Dollywood.
My kids have never had a vacation because I could never afford it. I live in a shitty apartment and we can barely afford that.
I fucking miss having all of that space so bad, and if I had been smart I would have fought with everything in me to keep that place and I’d have found a way to do the repairs it needed.
Boomers:
Had a functioning government that raised minimum wage 11 times over 20 years. (Because popular policies could be enacted in their functioning government).
Millenials:
Had a corporate controlled government that couldn’t raise minimum wage once in 20 years. (Because popular policies are never enacted by corporate backed politicians).
You:
Study everything you can that isn’t about how capitalism strangled every American child’s collective futures, and will grow to do the same across the world.
No offense, but how about we study what’s removing our opportunities so we still have them in 20 years instead of chasing whatever’s next to be cast off the oligarchs table.
uhh no. comparing our actual life experience today with the actual life experiences of our parents and grandparents is the only way to know if we’re doing better, the same, or worse.
your argument is the argument of the domestic abuser and the authoritarian government and the rapacious theologian.
“be grateful for what you have” or “it could be worse” is shitty advice.
If given the option, I would take 1925 with its great depression, world wars and pandemics over 2025.
Our current society has been insidiously changed over the last 40 years to create an indentured population to serve a select few, this comes at the cost of a mass extinction event which in all honesty will most likely cause the human race to go the way of the dodo.
So no amount of social mobility will fix this, I’m sorry but the world is a nightmare hellscape. Thank god we can compartmentalize.
Comparing your life to how life was 50yrs ago is pointless. Whatever results the comparison reveals are not going to change your current living situation. Compare your living situation to 100 years ago and you’re doing great, yet your current situation remains the same. Study the here and now, current opportunities, where opportunities will exist in the future, and strive for some level of financial literacy. All this can be done for free.
This entire line of thought comes from the fact that we have parents who are actively in our lives every damn day saying that nobody deserves to earn over $7.50 / hr because they only earned like $2-$3 / hr in the 70s. They are an active detriment that is preventing any means of progress.
They will not entertain information about buying power, inflation, or ballooning revenues / puckering salaries. This is a sore spot with millennials for this reason. We are not the ones bringing this up, our parents, who did enjoy life 50 years ago, are.
You can pretend that this is about having a toilet indoors all you’d like, they had access to pensions back then.
My mom didn’t work. My dad made minimum wage. I grew up in a 5 bedroom, 2 story house. My mom and dad each had a car, and my dad always had a truck to haul shit around.
I have been called a liar at least 100 times in the last 10 years when I say this online.
My mom and dad paid less than 30k for that house. It needed a little work, but we were able to move into it as soon as they closed on the loan.
They were able to borrow against their equity any time they needed anything.
Sure, we didn’t have fancy vacations. We mostly went to South Holston (Tennessee) and camped and fished. A few times we went to Dollywood.
My kids have never had a vacation because I could never afford it. I live in a shitty apartment and we can barely afford that.
I fucking miss having all of that space so bad, and if I had been smart I would have fought with everything in me to keep that place and I’d have found a way to do the repairs it needed.
Boomers: Had a functioning government that raised minimum wage 11 times over 20 years. (Because popular policies could be enacted in their functioning government).
Millenials: Had a corporate controlled government that couldn’t raise minimum wage once in 20 years. (Because popular policies are never enacted by corporate backed politicians).
You: Study everything you can that isn’t about how capitalism strangled every American child’s collective futures, and will grow to do the same across the world.
No offense, but how about we study what’s removing our opportunities so we still have them in 20 years instead of chasing whatever’s next to be cast off the oligarchs table.
uhh no. comparing our actual life experience today with the actual life experiences of our parents and grandparents is the only way to know if we’re doing better, the same, or worse.
your argument is the argument of the domestic abuser and the authoritarian government and the rapacious theologian.
“be grateful for what you have” or “it could be worse” is shitty advice.
“The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”
https://youtu.be/akVL7QY0S8A
Elizabeth Warren a long time ago told us what was coming, and it’s either here or nearly here.
Okay, Boomer.
“you’re doing great”
sure buddy
If given the option, I would take 1925 with its great depression, world wars and pandemics over 2025.
Our current society has been insidiously changed over the last 40 years to create an indentured population to serve a select few, this comes at the cost of a mass extinction event which in all honesty will most likely cause the human race to go the way of the dodo.
So no amount of social mobility will fix this, I’m sorry but the world is a nightmare hellscape. Thank god we can compartmentalize.
Thanks, papa Musk!