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re: Salaries vs inflation
Posted on 6/1/25 at 7:56 pm to Smeg
Posted on 6/1/25 at 7:56 pm to Smeg
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You're completely wrong. Are you saying his medium wasn't more than the previous generations before him?
Huh?
No, I'm saying that it is. And I’m saying that fact matters. You seem to be saying it doesn’t?
So we agree that an important aspect of “standard of living” always goes up”, but you want to ignore that fact when we compare how good different generations had it relative to one another? That makes no sense.
This post was edited on 6/1/25 at 7:57 pm
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Posted on 6/1/25 at 8:10 pm to Dadren
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No, I'm saying that it is. And I’m saying that fact matters. You seem to be saying it doesn’t? So we agree that an important aspect of “standard of living” always goes up”, but you want to ignore that fact when we compare how good different generations had it relative to one another? That makes no sense.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 8:53 pm to tiger rag 93
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Especially after you admitted to committing fraud at Academy.
What’s the story here?
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:19 pm to Barbellthor
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Someone made the point that salaries in general have reduced in pay because way more workers i.e. women
No one ever wants to talk about this, but it is true and the biggest reason for the way things are compared to the past.
We live in a feminist society.
This post was edited on 6/1/25 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 6/2/25 at 9:42 am to Dadren
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So we agree that an important aspect of “standard of living” always goes up”, but you want to ignore that fact when we compare how good different generations had it relative to one another? That makes no sense.
The standard is "the standard" for that generation. The average person should be able to maintain the standard of living for their generation.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 10:22 am to tiger rag 93
Bro your medschool was $37 and a pack of skittles
Any decent medschool will set you back 500k. Not only that, by the time you get out of school and find a job you’re in your early to mid 30s. If you focus on debt alone, most women can’t have children by the time they get out.
Add going to military and you’re sure fire going to reduce women in medicine
Any decent medschool will set you back 500k. Not only that, by the time you get out of school and find a job you’re in your early to mid 30s. If you focus on debt alone, most women can’t have children by the time they get out.
Add going to military and you’re sure fire going to reduce women in medicine
This post was edited on 6/2/25 at 10:30 am
Posted on 6/2/25 at 11:42 am to BabyTac
Go ahead and move it to cash for firewood! Gold
And i hate to say it but crypto is the future of transactions.
And i hate to say it but crypto is the future of transactions.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 11:46 am to Smeg
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Back in the day a man could raise his family, a wife and two kids, in a house, with a car, on his salary alone. That was without a college degree.
Two married college graduate professionals struggle to maintain that standard of living now.
Somewhat true BUT when one salary was enough to sustain a family they did not live in a 3500 square foot home and the car they had was good for about 100k miles and then it was worn completely out. If they were unfortunate enough to get in an accident the damned thing would probably have killed at least some of them. They had one TV, 3 channels if they lived close enough to town, one telephone, and they did not have credit cards and would have been dumbstruck had someone mentioned financing a hamburger from a local restaurant let alone paying someone to go get their groceries for them. One could very well live like they did today, anyone with the means to avoid it does so with forethought and malice.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 11:52 am to BabyTac
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What is the end result?
Proving Tytler right.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 11:53 am to fareplay
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Any decent medschool will set you back 500k
Ah. So you have no clue what you’re talking about.
Also, my wife is a surgeon with no debt and we had two kids during training. 0/2 on points you were trying to make.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:22 pm to tiger rag 93
Except I do? My wife is a gastro, my BIL is emergency med, my SIL is general surgery, my other BIL is ortho.
Not to mention our friends who are in medicine?
Not to mention our friends who are in medicine?
Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:25 pm to tiger rag 93
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Ah. So you have no clue what you’re talking about.
Also, my wife is a surgeon with no debt and we had two kids during training. 0/2 on points you were trying to make.
Average debt after med school is around $260,000 and around 75% of med school grads carry debt.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:26 pm to tiger rag 93
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Also, my wife is a surgeon with no debt
Well who paid for it, because she sure as shite didn’t
Posted on 6/2/25 at 1:30 pm to Solo Cam
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turns out is was a loan with 19% interest
I call BS on this, a private loan sure, but those can be discharged via bankruptcy. What federal program is charging near credit card rates??
Also, he's an MD. There's no type of consolidation program available??
I work in hospital admin & many of our local banks offer MD specific mortgages at heavily discounted rates because medical field income is so stable & the risk is so low.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 3:57 pm to Smeg
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Back in the day a man could raise his family, a wife and two kids, in a house, with a car, on his salary alone. That was without a college degree.
Back in what day are you talking about? We got married in 1980 and at least half of my friends needed needed 2 incomes. All the stay at home moms were married to men with college degrees and pretty lucrative careers.
So what are they doing?
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:04 pm to BabyTac
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Most ‘good kids’ don’t care about all that crap. They just want to support a family which seems impossible with the cost just to live.
Most that I know (millennials) care a whole lot. They want new homes with every modern convenience, at least 2500 sq ft, very nice cars, big vacations, designer purses, fancy stuff. I look at them and wonder how they actually do have it.
This post was edited on 6/2/25 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:13 pm to LaLadyinTx
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Most that I know (millennials) care a whole lot. They want new homes with every modern convenience, at least 2500 sq ft
Well they are in their 40s with kids. Seems like a reasonable want to me
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:16 pm to BabyTac
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Graduated college in 2000, EE, $60k/year.
This was a VERY good starting salary for an EE in 2000
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:37 pm to pelicansfan123
Amen. They do these press gainey surveys only to tell us "your results said you wanted more diversity in the workplace". Corporate America is a joke.
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:48 pm to BabyTac
But wait, I was told this current president was going to fix all of this?! So why is he creating trade wars he has no idea how to handle, and giving billionaires tax breaks? He is increasing not only everyday costs for the middle and lower class, but increasing taxes on those same people.
Y'all all wailed and cried for the past 4 years, so why isn't your taco guy fixing anything like he said he would? PS, don't say OH DOGE IS SAVING US MILLIONS. There is absolutely no evidence that "DOGE" is doing anything helpful. Where is the money going? Elon's fireworks company? In his offshore accounts? No one here knows.
Y'all all wailed and cried for the past 4 years, so why isn't your taco guy fixing anything like he said he would? PS, don't say OH DOGE IS SAVING US MILLIONS. There is absolutely no evidence that "DOGE" is doing anything helpful. Where is the money going? Elon's fireworks company? In his offshore accounts? No one here knows.
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