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WingsOfGood
11/07/23 8:14:57 PM
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bigblu89
11/07/23 8:19:24 PM
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My parents bought their house in 1978 for $42K.

They sold it in 2011 for $722k

Thankfully they werent as Boomer as the average person born in the late 40s and early 50s and understood how fucked future generations are


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rexcrk
11/07/23 8:21:49 PM
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Bzzt!

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VeggetaX
11/07/23 8:23:24 PM
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I dunno why boomers act like they have no idea what inflation is. Are they not living right now?

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bigblu89
11/07/23 8:25:09 PM
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VeggetaX posted...
I dunno why boomers act like they have no idea what inflation is. Are they not living right now?
They talk about how they were able to live on $100 a week as a 30 year old, at the same time complain about how expensive everything is now, but dont understand the correlation

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WingsOfGood
11/07/23 8:27:33 PM
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VeggetaX posted...
I dunno why boomers act like they have no idea what inflation is. Are they not living right now?

didn't most boomers not even finish high school?
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TripleDouble
11/07/23 8:29:01 PM
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You used to be able to be a grocery clerk and buy a two story house. Now you need to be married, have a degree, and work 50 hours a week

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Squall28
11/07/23 8:29:06 PM
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Eheu

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WingsOfGood
11/07/23 8:29:33 PM
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TripleDouble posted...
Now you need to be married

Not sure this one helps you out there fyi
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darkace77450
11/07/23 8:31:04 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Not sure this one helps you out there fyi

They meant to say double income. Many wives stayed at home when your Boomer parents were starting families.
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SpawnShadow
11/07/23 8:32:30 PM
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VeggetaX posted...
I dunno why boomers act like they have no idea what inflation is. Are they not living right now?
They only know what inflation is inasmuch as Fox tells them it's bad and a reason to vote Republican.
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action52
11/07/23 8:33:28 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Not sure this one helps you out there fyi
Probably should have said, "You need to be married, and both of you need to have a degree, and work 50 hours a week."

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WingsOfGood
11/07/23 8:35:12 PM
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darkace77450 posted...
They meant to say double income. Many wives stayed at home when your Boomer parents were starting families.

if both make good money then perhaps but that is often not the case as one has to suppliment the other
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LeoRavus
11/07/23 8:36:33 PM
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Yeah that was good money in 1978. I was making like $5.50 at Walmart decades after that.

WTF did he do out of high school to be making a living wage

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WingsOfGood
11/07/23 8:37:09 PM
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LeoRavus posted...
Yeah that was good money in 1978. I was making like $5.50 at Walmart decades after that.

WTF did he do out of high school to be making a living wage

probably bag groceries
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mybbqrules
11/07/23 10:00:32 PM
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TripleDouble posted...
You used to be able to be a grocery clerk and buy a two story house. Now you need to be married, have a degree, and work 50 hours a week
My dad walked straight in off the street and got a job as a firefighter in his mid 20's.

Good luck doing that now.

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008Zulu
11/07/23 11:25:33 PM
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bigblu89 posted...
They talk about how they were able to live on $100 a week as a 30 year old, at the same time complain about how expensive everything is now, but dont understand the correlation
Because math is hard, and learning is harder.

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ExtremeLuchador
11/08/23 7:58:00 AM
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My first job in 2000 paid $7.00 per hour.

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UnfairRepresent
11/08/23 8:11:00 AM
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When my dad left college he was offered 5 or 6 jobs outta the gate without applying for anything.

He got to cherry pick the best one and use other jobs as leverage for higher pay. Then he was able to buy a house at a reasonable price (On just his salary)

And I'm not knocking my dad because he was a smart guy but that's no longer the reality people of my generation lived in let alone what the new generation currently live in.

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Kitt
11/08/23 8:21:45 AM
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ExtremeLuchador posted...
My first job in 2000 paid $7.00 per hour.
My first couple of jobs out of high school in 2013 were minimum wage ($7.14).

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AWearyWorld
11/08/23 8:27:06 AM
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I made $9.75 at my first job in 2016 and I complained all the time to everybody who would listen, that number gradually shrinking as they got sick of my whining.
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brestugo
11/08/23 9:02:56 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
didn't most boomers not even finish high school?

Even if they did finish HS or college, they (mostly, IMO) have the notion that things like science, knowledge and the value of a dollar are static. They feel like they learned all they need to know about them by ~ 1970.

The fact that these things change and in fact changed so quickly is inconceivable and/or frightening to a lot of them.

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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:45:54 PM
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ExtremeLuchador posted...
My first job in 2000 paid $7.00 per hour.


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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:46:50 PM
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Kitt posted...
My first couple of jobs out of high school in 2013 were minimum wage ($7.14).

And why?

Because boomers grumble and complain about raising it.
"$15!! Too high! Everything would go up!!"

Yet everything goes up anyways
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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:48:52 PM
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We even have users I encountered on CE before who argue against a $15 living wage.
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TheOtherMike
11/08/23 3:50:30 PM
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My boomer parents rant about the local Wal Mart starting at $15/hour. They literally think it's a "ridiculously high" wage.

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brestugo
11/08/23 3:52:41 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
We even have users I encountered on CE before who argue against a $15 living wage.

There's a user or two here who argue for no minimum wage. "Let the market decide", bullshit. I'm serious.

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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:53:10 PM
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You usually shill capitalism in these topics don't you?
The discrepancy is you are biased and made it up.
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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:53:31 PM
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brestugo posted...
There's a user or two here who argue for no minimum wage. "Let the market decide", bullshit. I'm serious.

Is it squall ?
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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:57:28 PM
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If I am wrong about you @redwhiteblue I apologize. But your name seems familiar for some reason.

Maybe I should use tags more
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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 3:58:33 PM
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Sorry then
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MatzoTov
11/08/23 4:01:31 PM
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What did your dad say when you showed him this?

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WingsOfGood
11/08/23 4:01:59 PM
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MatzoTov posted...
What did your dad say when you showed him this?

I didn't make this.
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FlyEaglesFly24
11/08/23 4:44:51 PM
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Yep. My dad bought his house in 1995 for 50k - today worth about 100k.

My mortgage is over 345k. My house is a little bigger, but not three times the size.

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Ruvan22
11/08/23 5:33:45 PM
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Do you mean the discrepancy between what the older people say about wages and what they actually were?
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action52
11/08/23 6:28:54 PM
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brestugo posted...
There's a user or two here who argue for no minimum wage. "Let the market decide", bullshit. I'm serious.
I mean, if we could get UBI and a good social safety net (health care etc.) guaranteed for all citizens, along with employees being free to unionize, then I think scrapping minimum wage and "letting the market decide" could work.

But as long as one side literally needs the job to survive and the other side can treat employees as an easily replaced, expendable resource, the idea that just letting them negotiate would lead to the best outcome for everyone is sheer lunacy.

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Shamino
11/08/23 7:18:11 PM
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I made 4.45 out of HS in '94 working at Target. That said, it was 40 hours week and I had benefits. However, it wasn't enough to live on my own, let alone go to college and own a car.

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CyborgSage00x0
11/08/23 7:22:21 PM
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Your dad made more money in real dollar value than minimum wage is now in some places, and ALSO way more when accounting for inflation.

What's really frustrating is the entire GQP also pretend they don't understand inflation and purchasing power.

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DrizztLink
11/08/23 7:42:51 PM
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They're stupid.

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CanuckCowboy
11/08/23 7:50:21 PM
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bigblu89 posted...
My parents bought their house in 1978 for $42K.

They sold it in 2011 for $722k

Thankfully they werent as Boomer as the average person born in the late 40s and early 50s and understood how fucked future generations are

Dude my mom got her first house in the late 90s for 89.5k. Sold it in the early ought for 235k. Bought a new place for 330k then sold that 5 years ago for 625k.

Shit is insane.

Also the person who bought her house did some big renovation to the basement and added a deck and sold it for 895k so... that's the world we live in. 2 years and some significant but not super expensive renovations and she made 270k off that.

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Calwings
11/08/23 7:55:32 PM
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RedWhiteBlue posted...
Every single older person I know says it really wasn't easy even for them, but the world was much more harsh and parents often times kicked kids out asap. They all said wages were just as shit then as they are now, and you gotta really make something of yourself with a skill to get by, not bag groceries.

So what's up with this discrepancy?

Using the same calculator that TC used...

https://iili.io/JBl9PDv.png

To be making wages back then that were "just as shit" as they are now, those old people would have to have been making less than $2 an hour, which would have been well below the actual legal minimum wage of that time period.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart

So in other words, those people you're talking to are either stupid, full of shit, or some combination of both.

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UnfairRepresent
11/09/23 4:32:13 AM
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Not just that, the housing market was a completely different animal back then

"Just save and buy a house" was a reasonably attitude.

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Carljank
11/09/23 4:36:08 AM
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Boomer privilege is a real thing.

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Kamil
11/09/23 4:38:59 AM
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I actually get how things go up, but my older brother will try to get me on pizza wings about something. I'ts like, you *internalize feelings* also fuck I am nostalgic about some stuff because I gave up; But I was talking to some folks on the Discords.

And yea lol you could have a swinging a bachelor pad just working at Sears in the 80s/early 2000s.. I shoulda tried harder in later years. But you definitely could have just been a retail scrub and have your own place if you were responsible. Halt and Catch Fire!

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divot1338
11/09/23 5:04:00 AM
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bigblu89 posted...
They talk about how they were able to live on $100 a week as a 30 year old, at the same time complain about how expensive everything is now, but dont understand the correlation
Money did legitimately go further back then as we werent completely screwing the poor as badly. So it would have been significantly easier to be poor and accumulate wealth back then.

You can sort of tell that based on how far off most minimum wage jobs are from that calculated $33.04/hr. But theres a lot more factors.

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Amocat
11/09/23 5:15:57 AM
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Houses were also like $50,000 and cars $7,000

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