@chickpig23 @LibertyJen They use to be called roach coaches in the south. But they usually had some of the best food. You would see them all the time around construction sites and other blue color job locations
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@NerdsPerspect @LibertyJen Never heard of a food truck as a kid, and there were zero dollar menus.
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My parents were boomers.
I am GenX.
As a kid I can remember getting McDonalds maybe 6 times in my childhood. We never got Happy Meals (too expensive.)
We had to share a French fry order. And we could only order 1 hamburger each— my mom brought the American cheese from home and two cans of soda from home.
That’s how tight money was in our house. We couldn’t order a cheeseburger with the melted cheese on it from McDonalds.
This was my reality for a working-class blue-collar two-income family in the 80’s.
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@WheelerCFO @akgonci @JDRockwellJr Do you think the 2005 Corolla with 170k miles that this dude has listed at $4.3k has a computer dipshit?
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How delusional do you have to be to post 100k+ mile cars that are 20 years old and costing $8,000, and think that somehow is proof that kids these days are lazy or entitled?
These were like $500 when I was a kid. That's 16x more expensive. Entry wages didn't 16x.
DOTP now!
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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@g0nz0g0rilla @SouthernKeeks They exploded in the 80's and 90's it wasn't millennials or GenZers that caused that to happen. hmm i wonder who spent alot of money at those fast food places to make that happen
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@SouthernKeeks People don't realize that fast food restaurants were not EVERYWHERE like they are now.
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My parents are Boomers. I didn’t grow up with much. My father handmade our Christmas gifts several years in a row. Getting fast food was a very rare thing as a kid. McDonald’s was absolutely a fancy treat for me and my brothers.
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@punystacy @LibertyJen thats doubtful he did that every day.
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@NerdsPerspect @LibertyJen My dad packed his lunch every day. The good lunch meat and cheese were for him, we got the bologna.
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@awstar11 yes all you boomers/Gen X stay home and didnt go out to eat but for once a year. Yet all these fast food places exploded with more locations in the 70s-90s. fucking Schrodinger's restaurant.
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Children who know nothing about what they're talking about.
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@LibertyJen ooh a grammar nazi...so cool. bet you told on kids in HS who didnt have a hall pass to use the bathroom
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@NerdsPerspect I can’t take seriously anyone who doesn’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your.”
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@skumWgmi I’ve met boomers bragging how they own beach house in CA and only pay like 500 a month mortgage because reasons
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My neighbor bought his house in 1987 for $74,000.
He refinanced once.
He paid it off.
His property taxes are $1,800/year because of how long he's owned it.
The exact same house next door just sold for $710,000.
The 28-year-old who bought it pays $9,200/year in taxes.
And $4,100/month on the mortgage.
Same street.
Same house.
Completely different life.
We didn't just price people out of homes.
We priced them out of futures.
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@TwistedSheepGrl @MilesTrav 45 now I could afford to do way more things in my early 20’s than I can do now.
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GenX here, and the flaw I see in this argument is what my husband and I can do now in our 50s bs what we could afford in our single 20-something days is wildly different. It’s almost as if we adjust our habits based on our available funds. The poverty meal claimera want something as they are just starting out that the rest of us built over 30 years or more.
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The thing I find silly about this whole discourse, is the fact that I've worked in the food industry for well over a decade.
Not only are most of the customers boomers, and always have been, but they're also the least likely to use a deal lol.
They think complaining about the price, but then paying for it anyways, over and over, every time they come in, is some sort of A+ money management.
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@giacomais @FertigNeverDies Your full of shit unless you live in an isolated little farm town
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@FertigNeverDies We ate out maybe once a year on someones birthday. Maybe. And I mean, we had fast food once a year.
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Motherfuckers out here acting like a good portion of Gen-X wasn't eating PB&J and government cheese growing up.
And Ramen noodles in our 20s...
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@longr6 @justhere4fun87 @NolteNC they arent making starter homes anymore and thats part of the problem
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Admiraldadbar@justhere4fun87
@NolteNC I am not doing any of those things and I own a home, but I'm also not obnoxious and have empathy for those who cannot afford a home. When you bought a home the median home only cost 2.5x your income vs the 6x it costs now. Everything you said isn't enough anymore for most people.
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@CrazyFenaker @dougboneparth your full of shit, cost of college in the 80s was about 4k a year even cheaper in some public schools. 13-14k was what a semester cost me in 2018 at a private college.
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@dougboneparth Cost of tuition in 1986 was $13k-$14k a year for my university. That was a lot at the time. Tons of people never went to college because their families were priced out. And homes never seemed cheap relative to income.
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There’s nothing worse than older generations telling younger generations how to spend their money. It’s not our fault college educations and homes no longer cost $75.
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@PHB67168788 @funny_layde your fucking dreaming if you think you can find an electric cooler these days at a thrift store. Goodwill usually keeps those types of items to sell online.
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@funny_layde Go to a thrift store and get an electric cooler for about $20. Plug it into your outlet and keep it cool as you drive. If you are staying in a motel over night you can also get an outlet adapter. Better yet, only buy in the thrift store one that has both.
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I don’t want to trigger the younger folks on here, but I’ve had to make 2 big road trips this month. I packed a cooler w drinks, sandwiches and grapes. When i ran out, i found a grocery store to re-stock. It’s my favorite way to eat on the road, and i saved a lot of time & $$.
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@ToddNidasqM @Coleidoscopes 25 years ago my rent was 450 a month and i was 20/21 years old. easily affordable to live in the big city that i lived in without roommates working retail. your full of shit if you think ppl should get roommates or multiple jobs just to live.
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@Coleidoscopes When I was 21 years old, the average wage was six dollars an hour and rent was $700 a month. We made it work. Everything is relative. People don’t have an earning issue, they have a spending problem.
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The average starting pay in my city is $17/hr and the average rent is $1400/month.
You can't budget your way out of 50% of your check going to rent.
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@1957_weber @PolitiBunny yeah that doesnt happen in the real world. especially not in retail, food industry etc. hell even in my salaried position i only get a raise once a year.
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@PolitiBunny minimum wage again (sigh)
show up and work hard
and you'll get a raise in 6 months
and a promotion in a year
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No.
This is a lie.
Or you’re irretrievably stupid.
Maybe both.
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@TarHeeled67 @ShamashAran for nearly 20 years a single minimum-wage worker could comfortably afford a mortgage on an average house You people are more comfortable blaming others when the obvious is staring you in your face.
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@OldBayowulf @Robber_Baron_ Nope I got sneared at and looked down upon. Even by my so called family. (Aunts/uncles).
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@NerdsPerspect @Robber_Baron_ And Ill bet you that 99-100% of the time if someone was generous to you when you were homeless, they gave you fast food and not a pot of fucking beans and a homemade ham sandwich
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I'm a successful 40+ man making a good deal of money and I still don't pay $28 for lunch... ever.
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@OldBayowulf @Robber_Baron_ I'm 45 same thing. i was homeless as a teen, I saw these fuckers eating out all the time.
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@NerdsPerspect @Robber_Baron_ Im 48,I was there. I KNOW they are lying.
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@Haeze @ThrillaRilla369 maybe but not everyone is going to want to do that. or have the time with the 2-3 extra jobs boomers say they should be worker.
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@NerdsPerspect @ThrillaRilla369 Strange... as a single person I can easily go through 8 hamburgers in a week, which is plenty of time to spare before they get moldy.
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Couldn’t justify paying $15 for a burger so I bought $67 worth of ingredients to make it at home and now have a sink full of dishes
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@OldBayowulf @Robber_Baron_ right, fuckers are trying to rewrite history saying they never ate out for lunch or dinner.
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@Robber_Baron_ You are making their point for them. In no way, ever should lunch be $28. Im sure back in the day you had a $5 footlong or 10 though.
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@tjpsimone @herosnvrdie69 Dude probably lives in a big house with 10 cars complaining about a living wage and under paying his employees.
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@herosnvrdie69 I own a business.
The porter who mops the kitchen, and takes out the garbage deserves 58K a year? and if they have 1 kid, 107K a year? to mop a floor? really?
If i paid a living wage to everyone of my employees, they would make more than me.
where is my living wage?
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“Get a better job” is not the answer to people being unable to pay their bills. Every job should have to pay a living wage. If you don’t believe that, then you believe as a society people who do necessary jobs should permanently live in an under class.
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