The 60s? Not eligible for a war?
Are we just rewriting history to ignore Vietnam?
Anon describes past
Submitted 16 hours ago by LifeLemons@lemmy.ml to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Oh woops i broke my ankle and an anti war doctor said I’ll never walk again.
Oh woops I’m on extended vacation in Canada.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Not everyone in the world is an American of course.
Machinist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Picking up hitchhikers to Woodstock during the summer of '69 kind of narrows it down unless op was one of those maple syrup types.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 11 hours ago
Bone spurs.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
What % of the population actually fought in the war?
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 1 hour ago
Not enough to win it
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
all these pussies breaking ankles and citing bone spurs know a real man shits his pants right in front of the officer
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
found Ted Nugent’s lemmy account
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
That generation got paid $45 an hour in today’s value.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Federal minimum wage in 1965 was $1.25/h, which is $12.69/h today. Looks like Alaska had the highest state minimum at $2.10, $21.32 today. Or were you taking more average rather than minimum wage?
bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 35 minutes ago
They never said anything about minimum wage.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
Idk who’s closer, guys. Where the sauce at :u
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
My first house in 1999 was an older 4 bdrm on 14 acres of land for $50 grand. There were a lot of homes in the 30-40 grand range but lesser yards.
Now those same houses when they go up for sale are selling for over 200k easily.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
For note: 50k from 1999 is worth 96k today
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Also worth noting: in most areas, that price is exceptionally cheap for what he got, even for the time.
steeznson@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Even just the 90s was crazy. Not calculated with inflation because I’m bad at maths but my folks’ house they bought in 1992 has more than quintupled in value.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Here’s a rule of thumb - the federal reserve has a target inflation rate that they try to meet, and that is usually around 2%. Therefore, if you want to do a quick party trick you can do the mental math that things have roughly doubled in price since the 90s. Recent covid related inflation, upcoming tariff related inflation, and 1970s inflation break the trend, but typically the value of money halves every 30-35 years.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
A nice rule of thumb is that the doubling time for anything growing by a specific percentage is roughly 70 divided by that percentage. So inflation of 2% annually means something will be twice as expensive every 35 years. A 2% increase in energy use means we will use twice as much energy in 35 years. And those fossil fuel deposits (or other raw materials of choice) that are going to last a couple of hundred years “at current rate of use” will be used up twice as fast at 2% increased use every year in a mere 35 years and four times as fast in 70 years at which point those “hundreds of years” of reserves are probably almost gone.
steeznson@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The 4chan/greentext community is so wise
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I know someone who’s house value went up by 440% of her mortgage payment every month for 10 years.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m starting to think this “Anon” guy just makes shit up!
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’ve met a boomer that basically has lived this greentext. I thought it was an exaggeration until I met him.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Which part? Personally I doubt the Roadrunner part.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
For the thousands of stories like this, there’s thousands more of people that have their shit away for peanuts because they didn’t understand the value of what they had. My dad gave away so much shit for no reason it’s mind boggling.
gramie@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
If OP was 20 in the Summer of '69 then he most certainly was eligible to fight in a war.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Wasn’t it like 8.25% of eligible men were drafted? Which doesn’t include college deferments, “bone spur” avoidance, etc?
More than 9 out of 10 people didn’t get drafted. It certainly sucked for those who did, but the majority didn’t have to worry about war.
gramie@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I would not have wanted to take my chances of being one of the 1/12. They not have had to worry once it was all over, but while it was happening a lot of people were at risk of being sent to die in a foreign land.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
TheUnsungRooster@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I think Anon is making shit up, willing to bet he wasn’t born in 1949…
DesolateMood@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
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There is no war in Vietnam
steeznson@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They were calling citizens in alternating groups of SSNs like a lottery. When it was my Dad’s buddy’s turn to show up for the medical he thought he’d fake extreme scoliosis, slouched one shoulder back and down, then half limped into the doctors office.
He was never even asked to take his shirt off and got excused on medical grounds.
bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 29 minutes ago
How did you hear about this? Seems a bit odd he’d brag about it over 50 years later. Yeah, son, I faked a condition to get out of the war like a total coward. Don’t think I’m any less of a badass though. I’m still a total badass.
PornPlane@lemmynsfw.com 13 hours ago
I could have gone to canada, I could have stayed in school