re: Poll: Six-figure earners feel they’re in ‘survival mode’

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$350 to board them

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Stop boarding them in the luxury suites

Johnny posted multiple times a trip to Georgia to see family / friends.

Did this not happen at all in 1984?

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Can you be more specific? How many a year, where, and for how long

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My family used to take weekend trips to Panama City when I was a kid. We lived in LaGrange Georgia. This was late 1970s and early 80s. They were both cotton mill workers so “lower middle class”. Couple a year. Every few years we would take a longer trip somewhere. We also used to do a good many weekend camping trips at one of the states lakes.

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Wrong on 2 of those 3.

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so you married?

you said you didnt have kids

and you have bragged about living a hermit lifestyle

but who gives af about that

address my other post with real numbers. I laid it out there for you

want me to do groceries or gas too?

what about a cell phone and internet being pretty much required now a days to have a job?

you must have insurance and now many companies require certain amounts if they pay you any type of allowance

shall we talk about the increase in healthcare cost or cost of health insurance?

what about increase in taxes that go along with the increase in housing prices? or the cost of insurance on a house?

what about cost of having kids compared to back then? daycare cost?

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i highly doubt you make "alot" more than 100k. you have shown your lack of critical thinking skills in this thread. Your iq certainly isnt over 100, that we can all tell.

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Bro got flustered when mingo used the term "non sequitur" lol

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Can you be more specific? How many a year, where, and for how long?

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average family vacation in 1995 cost ~$1,550 for a week long vacation for a family of 4 within driving distance. that would be ~$2,900 in todays dollars. that covered, gas, hotel, food and entertainment

do you think a family of 4 could go on a week long vacation with what I described for under 3k? Its possible but would be something like a camp in grand isle if lucky

ftr the average family of 4 took 2.1 week long vacations in 1995



all of this shite can be found on google in the archives

sounds like you grew up poor, around other poor people and not middle to upper middle class people. You assumed that was normal when it wasnt.

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I’m saying is people spend too much money on things today that they didn’t used too. Inflation isn’t the only reason why, as the thread title says, people are struggling. I’m not saying inflation hasn’t happened. There’s always inflation.

Sometimes high and sometimes low.

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This is not what you said

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You and Mingo are taking it personal and it never was

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I don’t really give a shite what you say. You’re childless at 55 years old so you’re thought process isn’t rooted in the reality of the super majority of people and you’re too stupid to understand that.

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All I’m saying is people spend too much money on things today that they didn’t used too

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Be specific.

Don't say drop the cell phone and internet. Those are required now in 2025.

You think we should all be hermits who do nothing but sit at home and eat beans and rice, and that watching baseball or football games is gaudy, extravagant spending.

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You and Mingo are taking it personal and it never was.

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im not taking it personal, im trying to teach you

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I’m not saying inflation hasn’t happened. There’s always inflation

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not to the effect it is today, not in terms of real purchasing power or in terms of real wage growth

its simple math man.

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All I’m saying is people spend too much money on things today that they didn’t used too

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you keep sayign this...but its wrong. i just showed, the average family of 4 took 2.1 week long vacations in 1995

do you think 1995 tiger stadium wasnt filled with blue collar plant workers?

think 1995 astros or oilers or saints games were not filled with blue collar types?

i do agree people could live like 1995 and live with 1 car, 1 cell phone, never eat out except once per week, kids only in public school, chill at home on the weekends bbq and not leaving, live in a 1200SF house


sure

but the upper middle class didnt have to live like that in 1995, they shouldnt have to today...thats the whole point you dont seem to grasp