re: How can the average person afford to live?

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When you were our age, you could work at the fricking grocery store or fricking McDonald’s and own a home and support your damn family

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When Boomers were your age, they had a better grasp of reality than you do, even when they were dropping acid.

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When you were our age, you could work at the fricking grocery store or fricking McDonald’s and own a home and support your damn family. God that fricking makes me so fricking mad. Boomers need to just kick the bucket.

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You still can. A manager at a fast food restaurant makes at least $50k-$75k. A grocery store manager is going to make the same or a little more.

A dual-income family with a couple of fast food managers or grocery store manager is going to be able to live comfortably.

Get to work.

Just answer the question. It’s a simple concept. You won’t though and we all know why. Times were easier then financially and no matter how many metrics someone puts to to prove it, you’ll never admit it.

And no one said anyone should be euthanized ya little baby.

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Times were easier then financially and no matter how many metrics someone puts to to prove it, you’ll never admit it.

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Your metrics are bullshite and you should be pissed at the people that convinced you of them.

Why do you think "boomers had it so easy and you have it so hard" is any different than "the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't let democrats make all the decisions" or "hundreds of unarmed black men are killed by cops every year" or "Covid is going to kill us all unless you surrender your freedoms and let us tank the economy"?

The argument that things are tougher now is asinine.

Boomers and their ilk will never admit that because it requires them to admit that times were easier and therefore their accomplishments weren’t what they make them out to be.

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Oh, bullshite. Work hard, advance, don’t get divorced, don’t engage in substance abuse, don’t commit crimes and live within your means. These are simple rules. Almost anyone who follows them will get ahead - way ahead.

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Or you can just wait for government to step in and do things like enact tariffs to save your job

Because this has been an unsolved problem since FDR and Wilson which got worse under Nixon and Carter and then obviously brought to a fever pitch under the Bush clan and beyond. So yeah, I think it’s fair to say they were derelict in their duty, but you’re right not completely to blame.

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I don’t mean any disrespect, but you sound like the college graduates that were interviewing with me for jobs just before I retired.

They wanted to know about company vehicles, bonuses, personal offices and assistants. The vast majority had never held a job.

That’s a cultural battle unfortunately. I have hope though that’s it’s more of a tyranny of the minority. Social media cuts both ways and we need more leadership to be courageous and suffer the arrows to say what is right. That’s the hero generation’s role as told in the Fourth Turning. The role of the millennials so it’s all good. It’s just the cyclical nature of civilization.

What’s more difficult is cost of education is at an all time high. Cost of Homes are at an all time high forcing people to either live at home or rent. Rent as a result is at an all time high as well.
Taxation is obviously a burden but that’s always been the case. A reduction there would cure all ills.
I guess what I’m ranting about is a need for a cultural revolution. That’s why I support guys like Vivek who are trying to bring about that revolution.

I mean, it’s not completely true though that youth have created more government. Post 9/11 has seen the patriot act, fisa, the creation of homeland security. Pre 9/11 you had the creation of the department of education, the nuclear regulatory commission, etc. like I said. It’s been going on for a long time.