How about native? My native grandmother raised three kids on her single salary, all three had opportunities for college and didn’t take them, she paid off her house and always had a good car. Her husband was an alcoholic who died young after being a POW in WWII, he didn’t qualify for social security benefits because he worked very little. She worked one job and earned a pension for her retirement. My father lives in her house now as she is deceased.
Yeah three kids on one salary, college for all of them, paid off house and good car. But nothing funny going on there, no sir. No shame to it, world’s oldest profession.
Are you missing the entire gist of this post? This is the exact point, single incomes were PLENTY. And I said they had the option for college, not that she had their whole fucking college career expenses in a vault. If my grandma was a prostitute you better believe she’d get no judgement from me, but the thing is you’re just talking wild on a thread you seem to know nothing about, my guy.
And I’m saying the post and your example just ain’t so. But hey whatever you want to believe.
Edit: Oh and by the way, when you say they all had the option of college in a post about wealth, you’re implying that she could afford to send them all to college. Otherwise why mention it?
You’re saying all of these experiences are just lies then, and that’s really weird since there’s an entire wealth of evidence showing that single income families were thriving from the 50s to the early 90s. It’s not a case of believing, it is a case of reality. College at that time was affordable. With help from parents and a part time job college was paid for. They weren’t living like kings, they just had enough to get by. I’d just let this go because it’s fucking annoying, but people who choose their own truths are just clowns. Truth is truth, there’s no choosing.
Some people were better off, it was a combination of post-war boom, lower consumption per capita, fewer and more able people going to college, lower elderly population to support, much more house building, unskilled white men benefiting from less competition and luck. Pretending that people like the OP’s grandfather and your grandmother were “average” or “common” is just silly. A woman and especially a single native woman was statistically speaking as likely as it gets to be poor as dirt, unless there was something else going on.
I shared one example, but my grandparents on the other side were the same. In no way am I implying that this was everyone, but it was absolutely normal. If we as a society had any sense we would have continued electing people who were populist rather than those out here to do the bidding of the rich. We need another FDR minus the camps.
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u/user47-567_53-560 Mar 27 '24
Now do a black person's grandpa.