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Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:30 pm to TheFonz
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Certainly wouldn’t want to be one in today’s world.
Young adults these days aren't willing to have roommates when they leave the nest. That's the entire point of the video; increasing expectations in recent generations.
Who in the 80s/90s bought coffee that cost more than 50 cents with their bagel on the way to work? Nobody. Do you know anyone under 40 that even knows what a Thermos for coffee is? 85% of the last client I worked at purchased lunch at a fast casual, every, single day.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:39 pm to High C
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I’m early Gen X, thankfully. I hate to see the shite that boomers get today, though. I feel like they were just doing the best they could for themselves and their families, and younger generations today bash them for it.
The giving boomers shite part is the head fake. What's happening here that matters is convincing millions of Millennials and Z'ers that they have it hard, that somehow prospects for their prosperity are not what they were for Americans before them, that they're victims and American capitalism is failing. It's Leftist nonsense, regardless of how many self-identifying conservatives have bought into it.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:03 pm to JoeyP239
Most of large pre WW2 homes in my area were either close to down town and occupied by doctors and bankers. The rest were farm houses built by the farmers and their families with rough cut timber they harvested from their land. They needed the big houses for the 6-12 children that helped work the farm.
They never took vacations or spent much money for anything that wasn’t needed for farm production. My father, born in the early thirties lived in a share cropper’s shack without indoor plumbing. It was probably less than 500 square feet.
They never took vacations or spent much money for anything that wasn’t needed for farm production. My father, born in the early thirties lived in a share cropper’s shack without indoor plumbing. It was probably less than 500 square feet.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:08 pm to BCvol
From Grok on increasing home size
Mean home size
1949: ~909 square feet
1970: 1,500 square feet
1980: 1,595 square feet
2010: 2,169 square feet
2020: 2,333 square feet
Mean home size
1949: ~909 square feet
1970: 1,500 square feet
1980: 1,595 square feet
2010: 2,169 square feet
2020: 2,333 square feet
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:10 pm to TrueTiger
And now everybody is looking to the government to make them feel better!
It is a huge problem.....people becoming dependent!
It is a huge problem.....people becoming dependent!
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:22 pm to oldskule
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And now everybody is looking to the government to make them feel better!
It is a huge problem.....people becoming dependent!
Thank FDR and LBJ for starting this. If the left wants to talk about pointless wars, let's start with the war on poverty.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 1:17 pm to Shaun176
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In other states, people are paying 15k for in-state tuition at public schools.
Per year or per semester?
And generally the flagship public school is way more expensive than regional schools.
Also, spending two years at community college is a smart cost-saving mechanism.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 1:48 pm to TrueTiger
Makes a lot of sense, it's an interesting take most young folks don't want to hear today.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 1:49 pm to TrueTiger
All of the idealistic imagery portraying the 50's is from old marketing illustrations trying to sell shite to women. The marketers knew if you want to sell a product to a woman, you have to sell the lifestyle as well.
Instead of an ad that describes what makes your soap better than the competition, you highlight your soap in an idealistic setting, so you are subliminally selling the idea "if you want your family to be like this perfect family, this soap needs to be in your life".
Instead of an ad that describes what makes your soap better than the competition, you highlight your soap in an idealistic setting, so you are subliminally selling the idea "if you want your family to be like this perfect family, this soap needs to be in your life".
Posted on 4/19/26 at 1:51 pm to deeprig9
Think about it like people in 50 years looking back at the 2020's and saying "everybody was in an interracial relationship, has a gay friend, and white men were dumb and burglarized houses".
Posted on 4/19/26 at 1:54 pm to LChama
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College was $1500 a quarter in the 80s also
Adjusted for inflation, community college in some areas is less than that now. College cost sky rocket due to the “extras” students expect. My dorm had one bathroom in each floor, now these kids expect penthouses.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 2:11 pm to High C
I'm a little bit older than you, 50s and 60s era ... college in the mid 70s.
It was $34 a credit hour when I enrolled at the UofSC.
Roughly $500 per semester, full time 15-18 hours per semester. We didn't F around. We worked while attending school. We studied our asses off. We picked up enough hours over to summer semesters to shorten our stay to 3.5 years if we could.
We lived in old houses and/or cheap 3 bedroom apartments ... split the $330 a month rent 3-ways. Slept on cheap beds or floor pallets.
Books were probably the major expense. Books were always the racket.
It was $34 a credit hour when I enrolled at the UofSC.
Roughly $500 per semester, full time 15-18 hours per semester. We didn't F around. We worked while attending school. We studied our asses off. We picked up enough hours over to summer semesters to shorten our stay to 3.5 years if we could.
We lived in old houses and/or cheap 3 bedroom apartments ... split the $330 a month rent 3-ways. Slept on cheap beds or floor pallets.
Books were probably the major expense. Books were always the racket.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 2:56 pm to JoeyP239
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The homes were absolutely not smaller back in the 1950s. There were giant houses then that middle class could afford
The big houses of the 1950s were built by your rich parents decades earlier and you inherited them. A young couple buying a first home in 1950 was looking at 1,000 sf with a small kitchen and 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Also, a 1 car garage. If you eventually got a second car you added an open car port.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 2:57 pm to TrueTiger
Homes are extremely affordable now thanks to Trump. Nobody has anyone to blame but themselves for being lazy if they can’t afford a home in this red-hot economy. Stocks are doing great.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 3:04 pm to BCvol
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Most of large pre WW2 homes in my area were either close to down town and occupied by doctors and bankers.
Yes, but just beyond those homes (still close to town) you often had smaller homes for middle class people but with very large front and back yards. This is because land was cheap. Populations were much lower. So, your cost was the actual house, not the lot. The large yards were for gardens that the middle class families used for growing vegetables and keeping chicken coops in the back yard.
This post was edited on 4/19/26 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 4/19/26 at 3:26 pm to moontigr
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by moontigr
Stossel is one of the biggest bitches on Earth. Talk about a guy I'd like to punch in the face.
Why?
Posted on 4/19/26 at 3:30 pm to TrueTiger
People dont want to hear facts.
Truthfully, they want to avoid facts that do not support ones desired narratives.
The honest history lesson is that life is hard.
It has always been hard.
It will always be hard.
And hard is a subjective term to the worldview that one perceives.
Rich kids have it hard.
That is honestly where the most active and vocal socialists come from (falling short of perceived parent expectations: if I can't make it in this capitalist society, then no one else can).
Poor Americans have it hard.
Poor sharecroppers had it hard.
Poor colonists had it hard.
Truthfully, they want to avoid facts that do not support ones desired narratives.
The honest history lesson is that life is hard.
It has always been hard.
It will always be hard.
And hard is a subjective term to the worldview that one perceives.
Rich kids have it hard.
That is honestly where the most active and vocal socialists come from (falling short of perceived parent expectations: if I can't make it in this capitalist society, then no one else can).
Poor Americans have it hard.
Poor sharecroppers had it hard.
Poor colonists had it hard.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 4:08 pm to Zach
Yes, in my area they were much smaller, probably 1/4 the size of the huge early twentieth century homes the business class occupied. Some had outhouses and milk cows out back.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 4:58 pm to HubbaBubba
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I thought the people down the street with the 1700 square foot home, as opposed to the 1165 sf home that we lived in, were rich, but I never thought of us as poor. Even so, my parents sent us to college and sacrificed for it.
The home I live in was built for the plant manager at Exxon Baton Rouge. Three Bedroom, 1 bath, Central heat but originally window AC, in 1958. Plant managers got huge bonuses back then large enough to fund a car or boat dealership.
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