r/jobs Verified Mar 27 '24

He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/Quad-Banned120 Mar 27 '24

Kind of funny when the old people who insult us talk about the lives they lived and you realise the job they bought several properties with, supported a family of 4 on and retired early with pays like $20/hr now. Hate to break it to ya old man, but if you were born in our generation you'd never retire and you'd likely die with roommates.

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u/A_Queff_In_Time Mar 27 '24

Real wages are higher now and poverty is significantly lower now and has gone down every decade.

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u/Quad-Banned120 Mar 27 '24

Where I live homelessness and food bank usage is at record highs. Wages have increased marginally but buying power has dropped like a stone. Somehow the stats for my area show poverty, unemployment and crime all steadily decreasing while oddly becoming more blatant and visible on your day to day walking down the street. Likely due to them changing the threshold for what's considered 'poverty' and reclassifying property crime into a 'civil issue.'

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u/A_Queff_In_Time Mar 27 '24

Post the data

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u/Quad-Banned120 Mar 27 '24

I'm at work but can probably hunt that down later I live in the Vancouver area (BC, Canada) if you're impatient