“When Boomers try to tell you life was hard during their lives, they’re not telling the truth. The minimum wage almost always supported a decent living, as intended, while they were up-and-coming.”
In closing, OP had this to say:"When Boomers try to tell you life was hard during their lives, they're not telling the truth. The minimum wage almost always supported a decent living, as intended, while they were up-and-coming.""Don't let old folks gaslight you. They're outright lying about what their financial lives were like, or the amount of 'hard work' they had to put in to have those lives. It is a mythology they have built for themselves, not reality.
"My grandma didn't graduate high school, maybe not even middle school, and got a job at an investment bank on Wall Street. I think she took a few courses in bookkeeping but that was it. If I tried getting that job with those same qualifications, they would throw my application in the trash asap.""[My] grandfather was a farm boy who didn't go to college.
"My nan raised three kids on her bank job and my grandfather's war disability in the '50s. In a three-bedroom house. My mom has no idea how I'm always broke, with a degree and a good job. Gee ma, you sold your house for $2 million and nan's house for $500,000. Huh. I live paycheck-to-paycheck with some savings because my rent is higher than any mortgage you ever had. And I have a roommate.""I think about this a lot.
Like, what was the bar for 'not working hard enough' back then? I work two full-time jobs and I’m trying to get my master's degree while also making peace with the fact that I’m getting too old to start a family and I’ll never own a home because it’s too expensive.""I'm a Boomer and I confirm everything you said is true. In 1976, I had a two-bedroom apartment for $75 a month. Utilities included.
The economy is the worst I've ever seen. I don't know how people do it, especially people with kids. Ridiculous medical costs, college tuition, and skyrocketing housing costs, rapidly growing homeless population, and 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with no savings. Some people want to virtue signal and some are simply blind to the fact that the reality they grew up in no longer exists.
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