Tom
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@LoveSheridanNYC Certainly gives a shot of adrenaline every so often!
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@cxgonzalez getting bent over the washing machine in the basement with my parents upstairs? I mean i guess
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@LoveSheridanNYC @Empty_America Somehow needs to be addressed. Education doesn't seem to be working?
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@Empty_America think a lot of the sense of grievance/"ladder-pulling" that GenX/Millenial/Zoomers have comes from a lack of understanding just how historically aberrant (in terms of abundance/opportunity) the post-war years in the US were
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I was able to get my Dad's take (b. 1929) on the difficulty of life in different eras.
30's and 40's were rough and almost no one would actually go back. Illnesses, hard work, cold houses, etc.
50's were easy. Rent was still low, extremely easy to get work, inflation hadn't really started yet. The boom was real, Dad always preferred renting and he noted repeatedly how low the rent was versus income.
By the 70's the "bill became due" and life became harder again, physical comforts only increased but it was competitive again, more like pre-war.
80's was my childhood and it wasn't particularly easy at all to raise a family then, you had inflation, high interest rates, this is the "cheap/anxious parents" period that many over 40's remember as kids.
He seems to find the current year to be OK, rents in a 55+ apartment complex in AZ with good maintenance that takes care of everything and nice facilities.
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