My grandfather worked in a bread factory his entire life. He was able to buy a house in a suburb 20 minutes north of New York City at the age of 28. His wife did nothing. He had 2 kids. Paying people with those jobs that kind of money is now known as "Socialism". How did your grandfather live?
They both died young so I never knew them. #notallboomers
>>522592239I dont know. My dad never spoke about my grandfather. All I know is he disapproved of my dad trying to go to college for art. And he ended up being correct on that point.Then my other side I only saw him once a year at Thanksgiving where he always would work in his shop when family was over. Ive theorized that either he thinks grandma cheated on him or he was autistic.
>>522592239He was a marine in Korea, came back and worked in a factory. Had a house, a wife, and 7 kids.
>>522592239I don't know about my grand father but my father paid 10 francs (1,6 euros) for a pack of cigs and a coffee and he had pocket changeI pay 18 euros (108 francs) and i'm lucky if i have a free lighter from china with it so I imagine my grandfather had it even better
He owned a duplex and turned the attic into a third apartment but gave it to my aunt because my deadbeat dad kept us apart.
>>522592239My grandfather worked at a chemical plant, bought two large houses next to each other in the center of town and had four children.He made his children live in the house next to his.Also my grandmother cucked him constantly with random men, and apparently drank while he was working all the time. His bosses didn't care at all, and he never cared about random men fucking his wife.
>>522592239My grandfather grew up in the Andes, he was almost a teen when WW2 broke out. He later became a cop. Once he stopped gold traffickers who had 4 bars of gold in possesion, they attempted to bribe him but he refused. My older uncles sometimes gives him shit for it because they grew up in extreme poverty. He's doing good, just memory issues.
my grandfather was on a first-name basis with picrel and fought in his army until the end of the revolution, even staying beyond february 1979 to potentially reverse the outcome. he had already sent my father and aunts to the US, where he joined them eventually and passed in 2014>inb4 anons realize a us flag admitted theyre not white on this board
>>522592239>How did your grandfather live?How did your grandfather's grandfather live? Or his grandfather? I doubt he was able to "support a family" baking bread all day. Odds are he was a serf who lived in poverty like 99% of humanity did.
>>522592239>How did your grandfather live?Went every winter down to Miami, to live in Hotels for 3-4 months of the year, left my dad with his aunt.Retired with over a million dollars in the bank in 1986, which was embezzled by my aunt, screwing my dad out of any inheritance.My dad had to suffer with debt his whole life.
>>522592239From what I do know about my grandfather, he was an US army drill instructor in the thirties and he got out just before WW2. He would later go on to be a guard on a prison farm. He wouldn't kill escaping prisoners, he'd shoot them in the leg. He was also a pool hustler
>>522592239Social security tax 6.65% in 1981Social security tax 7.65% in 1989Social security tax 12.4% in 1990Social security tax 10.4% in 2011Social security tax 10.4% in 2012Social security tax 12.4% in 2013Boomer retirees recieve 100% of their social security pay out benefit.GenX, Millenials, GenZ are currently scheduled to recieve 73% of their social security pay out benefit due to shortfalls in the funding.Boomers can retire at 65 and get full benefits.GenX, Millenials, GenZ can retire at 67, BUT there is serious discussion in DC of raising that to 70.
>>522592239It literally doesn't matter how much you attempt to tax the top earners because they will just pay some "creative" accountant to hide their income behind a million loopholes or in bullshit investments. It's a completely moot point until something fundamentally changes with our ability to actually collect taxes from these kinds of people, they have all the resources in the world to fight it.
>>522592239My paternal grandfather was able to buy a 4-bedroom house in the suburbs as a salesman with 2 kids. My grandma was a stay-at-home mom. They had 2 more kids after buying the house. This was in the late 60s - early 70s. My maternal grandparents were poor, especially after the economy went down the shitter in the 70s.
>>522592239They lived under communist rule - one of our homes was taken away to give it to some skank from another town, a great uncle was killed for a wristwatch, my aunt was in prison for three years for having a fur coat. What a time to be alive indeed.
