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re: This is why millennials are unhappy
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:07 pm to VictoryHill
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:07 pm to VictoryHill
The point is that an 85k house in the ghetto would still be a nice house if it weren't in the ghetto, which is where my points about schools and justice come into play.
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:08 pm to DeathValley85
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You think people don't need cell phones? How old are you exactly? A cell phone is a de facto requirement for every career now.
Just 20 years ago, almost nobody had a cell phone. They made you think that you have to have one. You can throw it away and be happier.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:09 pm to moneyg
quote:that only exacerbates the problem. The solution is for the us government and the governed to live within their means. $30T in debt is a death sentence for future generations. We've kicked the can for decades and eventually the bill will come due
The only solutions you consider are easy blanket "raise minimum wage" solutions because effort and time aren't acceptable to you.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:09 pm to LSUFanHouston
Flipping burgers at McDonalds is not supposed to be a career. If you don’t put the effort in to increase your odds of finding better employment making more money enjoy being poor because you deserve it. I bet I could live on the money these people get from the government. It might not be a good living but I could survive.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:09 pm to VictoryHill
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None of this takes anything away from the fact that we spend a greater percentage of our income on basic items comparatively.
Yes, we have inflation, I'm just not sure why any particular generation is blamed. The OP is a moron but he's not the only one who seems to think everything bad is the fault of boomers, as if they get 3 votes to his 1.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:09 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Use average income.
Today it's $51,480 so a factor of 5.47
That gets you a house of $128,272
That gets you a new car for $18,781.
What about a house without central air, that’s only 1000 sq ft or less, has only 1 bathroom?
Or a car without AC, stick, roll down windows, am radio?
Because that’s what houses and cars were like then…
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:10 pm to auggie
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Just 20 years ago, almost nobody had a cell phone. They made you think that you have to have one. You can throw it away and be happier.
Ooooh now do this for medication, computers, and various other things that have changed.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:12 pm to Jcorye1
This entire thread is full of people answering the prompt: TELL ME YOU'RE A BOOMER WITHOUT TELLING ME YOU'RE A BOOMER
Conflating discussions and oversimplifying issues to fit a warped narrative must've been en vogue back in the day.
(This is a hypothetical scenario.)
Millenial: My wife and I pay $1800/month to rent a 3 bed/2 bath house in a good area where we can send our kids to school.
Boomer: Just buy a house.
Millenial: Houses in the area are priced out of my range.
Boomer: Move out of that area.
Millenial: I have a steady job, my wife works, and our children are in school, not that easy.
Boomer: Get better jobs.
Conflating discussions and oversimplifying issues to fit a warped narrative must've been en vogue back in the day.
(This is a hypothetical scenario.)
Millenial: My wife and I pay $1800/month to rent a 3 bed/2 bath house in a good area where we can send our kids to school.
Boomer: Just buy a house.
Millenial: Houses in the area are priced out of my range.
Boomer: Move out of that area.
Millenial: I have a steady job, my wife works, and our children are in school, not that easy.
Boomer: Get better jobs.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:13 pm to LSUFanHouston
quote:Your posts, and mine, speak for themselves.
You are the one using emotions and providing zero facts.
Now run away and have a good cry.
Here's another little FACT for you, while you snivel. Millennials are set to inherit nearly $70Tn from progenitors over the next two decades. Millennial progenitors never dreamed about that kind of inheritance.
Yet Millennials, and their predilection to US marxists, are prepared to cede every 1¢ to Uncle Sam. Do that. Go ahead! Make your bed, and lie in it.
This post was edited on 4/2/22 at 7:20 am
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:14 pm to LSUFanHouston
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New House - $80,902 (Where can you find anything other than a trailer, at that price?)
quote:Find me a new car with manual shift, no a/c, roll up windows, and manual locks.
New Car - $11,213 (you might be able to find a several years old used car. Maybe)
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:14 pm to VictoryHill
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TELL ME YOU'RE A BOOMER WITHOUT TELLING ME YOU'RE A BOOMER
That whole generation was able to go to college for the price of a sandwich and yet are still some of the dumbest motherfrickers on the planet.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:16 pm to Cajun Tigah
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This post was edited on 4/7/22 at 7:35 am
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:17 pm to Jcorye1
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Ooooh now do this for medication, computers, and various other things that have changed.
I don't take any medication, so somebody else can address that. Most people had computers 20 years ago, or at least access to one, when they needed it, but somehow, they survived without using it 16 hours per day.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:18 pm to UncleFestersLegs
What changed is that the vast majority of people in 1970 didn’t feel entitled to live in luxury on low to mid income wages. They were not keeping up with the joneses.
Sometime in the mid 80s, young people and low to mid income level people went full tilt on keeping up with the Js.
My parents bought our house in 1970, for $19k. It was 1100 sq feet and our family had 4 kids. We had one car, a Ford Pinto. When we closed in the carport when I was 10, it was as if we moved into the Taj Mahal.
Millennials don’t grasp that concept. Our society created this by giving every luxury to kids, on debt, for the last 30 years. They expect that lifestyle.
Your comparison between eras is shite. Way different cultural expectations between 1970 and 2022.
Sometime in the mid 80s, young people and low to mid income level people went full tilt on keeping up with the Js.
My parents bought our house in 1970, for $19k. It was 1100 sq feet and our family had 4 kids. We had one car, a Ford Pinto. When we closed in the carport when I was 10, it was as if we moved into the Taj Mahal.
Millennials don’t grasp that concept. Our society created this by giving every luxury to kids, on debt, for the last 30 years. They expect that lifestyle.
Your comparison between eras is shite. Way different cultural expectations between 1970 and 2022.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:18 pm to auggie
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Most people had computers 20 years ago, or at least access to one, when they needed it, but somehow, they survived without using it 16 hours per day.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:18 pm to moneyg
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You just have no fricking clue what's causing it nor what the solution is. The only solutions you consider are easy blanket "raise minimum wage" solutions because effort and time aren't acceptable to you.
LOL.
I haven't made min wage since I was 15 years old.
You seem to think this is a story about me. It's not a story about me.
See, most humans have the ability to observe others and comment.
I'm sorry you don't.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:19 pm to UncleFestersLegs
And don’t even get started talking about the difference of opportunities available today. Long distance phone calls… free. Can instantly talk, text, or message anyone on the planet… free. Can work a high-paying job… anywhere on the planet, not just the town you live in. Want to learn a new skill… can do it free with the phone in your pocket.
There has NEVER ain’t he history of mankind been more opportunity for an individual to earn a high standard of living than now.
There has NEVER ain’t he history of mankind been more opportunity for an individual to earn a high standard of living than now.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:20 pm to VictoryHill
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This post was edited on 4/7/22 at 7:34 am
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:21 pm to thetempleowl
“If you are a fully grown adult making minimum wage, you are doing it wrong“
Unless you want to suffer for some weird reason. Or perhaps you’ve developed a stutter in your late 70’s. Minimum wage is hard to come by.
Unless you want to suffer for some weird reason. Or perhaps you’ve developed a stutter in your late 70’s. Minimum wage is hard to come by.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:21 pm to Dirk Dawgler
quote:Yup. Literally every apartment complex is advertised as “luxury”
What changed is that the vast majority of people in 1970 didn’t feel entitled to live in luxury on low to mid income wages. They were not keeping up with the joneses.
If one lives today as people lived in the 70s life is really, really easy and cheap.
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