Hate to say it, but he has a point
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>>62537145Bump
>>62537145This boomer needs to be tortured to death (with amphetamine IV drip so he doesn't pass out from the pain)
>>62537145why do you guys want houses anyway? you don't know how to maintain them and can't afford to pay somebody to do it for you. just rent and let the mexicans take care of the property while you play video games and masturbate.
>>62537188fpbp
>>62537145The big point is that its extremely hard to get married by 25 nowadays while it was easy back then. The boomer can fuck off.
>>62537318Bro you don’t want a tossed around, used up roastie with daddy issues and no self respect? There’s plenty of girls out there!
>>62537350NO THERE ARENT AT LEAST FOR MEAnd i seee the statistics they tell the whole story
He didnt say how old he was but i bet it was in their 20s, saving the equivalent of todays 100k, which isnt impossible but was probably easier back then
>>62537145I think there is this misunderstanding that people nowadays don't want to work. My father was a truck driver and had a house with 35. He put in a lot of hours, but he also earned a LOT LOT. If there was a realistic scenario in which I could afford a house from 10 years salery, I'd be more motivated to put more work in. I suppose this ie true tenfold for minimum wagies which will not get the money together in their whole life and know it.
>>62537450At some point you have to ask yourself...maybe you're not oppressed by the economy. Maybe you just aren't that competitive.
>>62537145I always liked Michael Savage. Based old man.
>>62537450Yes, people do want to work, but they subconsciously understand it isn’t worth it now. Min wage in 1960 was = to like $30/hour today. So the bottom of society back then was equal to like semi-decent income today which 10’s of millions get but have no real prospects of increasing it by much.Fast food workers were all smiling in old videos cuz not only did min wage provide exactly what min wage workers want now, but they also had upward mobility into a huge middle class with thriving local communities that were all over America. If you worked at McDonald’s in 1958 and you were still there in 1968 it was because you owned the place. Once in a while on the news you’ll see some wagie getting publicity cuz he’s never missed a day in 25 years or whatever,And he gets a $100 gift card to Best Buy or something as a reward. People think wages matter but it’s really inflation. The people don’t understand how they are getting poorer, so we deserve to get poorer.
Also, I'd like to point out that the homes the first Boomers were buying in the mid 1960s would've been older builds from the 1950s. So, most early Boomers were buying 950 sqft to 1,000 sqft bungalow-style homes with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 car garage, with little insulation and no HVAC. They probably had a single black and white TV with 3 channels. And they also owned 1 car for the entire family of 5.Lifestyle inflation has rotted your brains. And the communists/fascists are playing on your envy, entitlement and resentment.
>>62537529>Min wage in 1960 was = to like $30/hour today.The federal minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00 per hour, which adjusts to approximately $10.50 to $11.00 per hour in today's money. Didn't bother reading the rest of your post.
>>62537485Excellent argument, I conceide
>>62537145>people got married so two working people could use their combined incomesyeah, that's not how it worked. or more specifically, the women didn't work.that retard deserves to get flayed.
>>62537145Fuck you guys that dude is right, you all want to be single and own a mansion and jerk off in there with your sex robot rooms. Every one of these mythical boomers got married and got two incomes. If you guys did the same thing you could afford a house.
>>62537602Faggot. You need to measure it in gold. How much gold could someone get in a month working for $1/hour in 1960 and how much gold can someone get in a month working for $10.50/hour.Now do the calculations and notice the stark difference.Also… you don’t even have to measure gold at $4,000/oz where it is since this big leg up the last 2-3 years. Measure it at $1,500/oz where gold was at more or less for the entire 2010’s on average. And the $1/hour person in 1960 is still considerably ahead.
>>62537485If you're 70 IQ and willing to work 60 hours a week in constuction, too bad some mexican is willing to do that for half the price. If you're 130 IQ and willing to work 60 hours a week in tech, too bad some indian is willing to do that for half the price. If you're 100 IQ and a woman and willing to drink matcha and create powerpoints congrats the managers want to fuck you
>>62537864I don't get paid in gold. Neither did people in 1960. You said inflation-adjusted minimum wage was equivalent to $30/hr today. It isn't. You were wrong.How old are you lol
>>62537998Nobody got paid in gold in1960 either when gold backed the dollar you fucking retarded chimp.
>>62537145Yeah, this is correct. Likewise home ownership remains just a few percent off from a historic high and far far higher from ownership in the 50s-80s.>>62537864Nah that's gay. You could have bought the market back then and been up 100x today too. You'd have to be a retard to make $10.50 an hour today. I live in a modest city of 100k people in Tennessee and McDonald's/Chipotle pays like 50% more than that starting.
>>62537864Damn at $1/hr x 40hrs x 52 weeks / $35.31 per oz gold in 1960, we're getting absolutely fucked lmao
>>62537145Could you tell me what it is?
>>62537145Ah yes, when I think work ethics I think the hippie generation.
>>62537145Women working is a recent occurrence in history, retard. >>62537188This. Also women don't have any money tnow, they are the main drivers of credit debt.
>>62537998In 1960 people were paid in silver. In 1800 people were paid in gold
>>62537555nigga that's all a man needs or really even wants. I just need enough space to store my gun and book collection and that's it, I don't want a giant house.But even those would take ALL of my take home pay for the next 20 years. That's unrealistic, I shouldn't have to eat rice and beans by myself in a house that another man had steak and raised a family in, that's bullshit.
>>62537998>Neither did people in 1960.Pre Nixon the dollar was still pegged to gold.
>>62537145But all of the people who I know who do own homes also went on vacations can drunk smoked weed etc. Legit all of them did these things and now still own homes.
