re: Is Gen Z etc totally out of touch about salaries?

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Get them away from liberal professors who may turn them queer.

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That's from the formaldehyde in the water, look at the frogs brother.

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sell the mobile home

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For less than you paid for it. Genius advice

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I don’t know man. I’m usually in 100 percent agreement with this mindset. I paid off 93k in student loans in 2.5 years in 08-10.

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Right. Several folks have alluded to student loans. One would assume college grads (accordingly with student loans) in a 3% unemployment environment are not the target audience for a bluecollar warehouse job.

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It’s crazy to think people are getting paid more than that working at McDonald’s not even 10 years later

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They're doing $18 to start here with tuition reimbursement, and its a bunch of Filipino seniors working the kitchen. They finally automated, got tired of the shite. There's no front counter anymore.

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They finally automated, got tired of the shite. There's no front counter anymore.

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I saw this for the first time in BR recently. New Taco Bell with iPad ordering. Probably how they'll all be in 10 years

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$1500 in todays dollars is about $4100

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15/hr in 2022 is $31,200. So you made $9,800 more a year. Even by today's numbers a roughly $10K salary difference is pretty solid. But let's look at it a little deeper.

According to MN Fed.org, $1 in 1984 has the buying power as $2.61 cents in 2021. And since 2021, inflation has skyrocketed.

But even as of last year...

If we took your salary of $41k an year and adjusted it for the MN Fed inflation data $1(1984) = $2.61(2021), your $41k salary has the same amount of buying power as $107K. That $9,800 extra ($41k - $31.2k) is the same as $25.5k in 2021. That's 81% of the salary you are in here saying is acceptable.

So to wrap it all up and put it in plain language for you, your "shitty" salary that you said you "made it on"... Would be like someone who make $107K in New York last year saying they barely making it.

And you're out of touch arse is in this thread bitching at someone complaining about making $31K a year, and somehow think your experience is very similar to their current one.

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For less than you paid for it. Genius advice

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Hows that rent working out for you.

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Hows that rent working out for you.

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If I was barely able to make rent, I definitely wouldn't want to buy something they'll come take if I can't pay and have to risk repairs on it.

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People that aren't moving anywhere in the job market either: (1) Don't have skills that are needed, (2) don't know how to market themselves/don't care about moving up, (3) aren't willing to move around to find places where they can make things work.

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4) Dont have a degree

America was the greatest place to live when simply having a work ethic and entering the work force meant you could afford a house in a safe neighborhood. That was the American dream

Now? You better have an advanced degree when entering the workforce if you want hone ownership. The simple work ethic will only guarantee you an apartment to rent in a bad part of town