Ha! You think some kid can afford a luxurious staircase studio on minimum wage? That’s prime real estate!
A slightly different experience
Submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
No kidding. That’s gotta be at least $2200/mo rent
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Boomers in their 20s were also hoping that WW3 wouldn’t start tomorrow.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Welllll… Neither the US nor the Soviet Union had complete lunatics running the country at the time.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think that the multiverse exist and we’re the 1% of timelines that the cold war didnt go hot.
Imagine Stannislav Petrov tripping on a banana peel and ending up in the hospital instead of going to work and monitoring for nukes, or if Vasily Arkhipov suddenly develops caustrophobia right before that submarine mission to Cuba.
tisktisk@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Genuinely curious why progress toward a society of similar potential/qualities of the boomer gen is so beyond impossible please help
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For one thing, the economic boom of the 1950s was an anomaly. It was largely driven by years of enforced saving during WWII. Many consumer goods were either rationed or unavailable, but there was full employment for war production and those jobs paid well. So people were making good money and didn’t have a lot to spend it on. So they bought war bonds or just saved up. A few years after the war ended, when industry had shifted back to producing consumer goods, people had a lot of money to spend. Sales fueled more jobs and higher pay, fueling more sales etc.
By 1960 all the savings had been spent and consumption started to slack off. The business world didn’t want the boom to end, so they started handing out consumer credit like candy. Consumers also didn’t want it to end, so they eagerly bought on credit. Constantly owing money became the norm, and now the average American family carries like $15,000 in credit debt, excluding mortagages.
I think the only way we can achieve a boomer-like lifestyle for everybody will take massive changes in how we run the economy. The current system will just keep shoveling profits into the hands of a very small number of very wealthy people. Automatil will eliminate more and more jobs. But in the theoretical endpoint of that, the economy collapses when there are too few people with incomes who can afford to buy anything. Reforming our economy before it gets to that point will be a matter of survival.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
There was also a large influx of money as Europe rebuilt after WWII, but that also a one-time-thing.
Unless…
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The rich pulled the wealth from the commoner and made themselves even richer. Now they want to be kings. It’s why we can’t have nice things.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The rich pulled the wealth from the commoner and made themselves even richer.
That’s been happening throughout literally all of human history. It doesn’t help answer the question of why so many people had it so good in the '50s (other posters in this thread have provided better answers.)
theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d love to see the bank account and hear the life story of the person who downvoted you.
I really would.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Because people let them.
tisktisk@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You mean people (?) let them (boomers) permanently impede progress somehow? I'm not doubting you, just questioning the means and any specifics that can be spelled out
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Boomers had the cold war to worry about though
zedgeist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well then, it’s a good thing nuclear weapons aren’t a thing anymore. Phew.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
No boomers were much more likely to be plunged into a third world war. They also had something to lose, unlike me with fuck all.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They more likely to be plunged into an accidental nuclear war. We’re more likely to be plunged into ww2 part 2: electric boogaloo.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Cold war?
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Something something by my bootstraps...
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure, older people aren’t worried about WW3 at allllll.
You know one of the reasons we’re on the brink of WW3? Because of devisive shit like this.
plyth@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Zoomers all have internet. Enough of them study economics or politics. There is not another Occupy Wall Street. Do all the clever people already have good paying jobs?
Carvex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not not only their second home, but with a stay at home wife, three kids named Junior, a family dog, two cars, two weeks of vacation a year, and a retirement plan, all for 40 hours a week uneducated labor repairing vacuum cleaners.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
two weeks of vacation time a YEAR?? What hellworld are you yanks living in?!
Carvex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I get one business week, 40 hours of vacation accumulated a year at my current job.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Shit I haven’t had a vacation in 3 years since my honeymoon, and mainly because 1) money, 2) time. I make decent money doing my own thing as an electrician, but costs have spiraled so far out of control that I’m working my ass off just to keep us afloat. I’ve been contemplating hanging that up and getting a job just to get healthcare and retirement, of which I can’t afford if I want to stay competitive in my pricing.
There is no guaranteed paid time off here in the states, it’s a “benefit” of whatever company someone works at (including federal holidays). And even then, many people are guilted into not taking their allocated time off for fear of very real reprisal (missing out on promotions, etc).
It’s really fucked up and I don’t wanna play anymore.
Dhs92@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I get 3 but it’s accrued
morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
2+ weeks of time off is still normal isn’t it? That’s not that much
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
My state is one of the few that guarantees paid time off. At minimum we get 1 hour of PTO for every 40 hours worked, so that works out to about a week of combined sick leave and vacation.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, but most places have gone to accrued time because that way most people will use a good chunk of it before summer on various other things.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Funny, most Boomers in the UK are dirt poor and live in a tiny rented terrace.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
And a girlfriend and a mistress, don’t forget those.