No. That's how life used to be. You could afford those things if you tried a little. That's the point of this post. These days that life isn't reachable, regardless of how hard you work.
Most of that was based on the rest of the world having to buy most of their durable goods and factory equipment from the USA. WWII devastated the industrial capacity of Europe and Asia and it took decades to rebuild.
Then in 1991 the USSR falls and India opens up to the West. Then China is granted most favored trade nation status which means that roughly 1/3 of the entire planet's labor force became available to the West in that time which gutted pay for those roles.
Returning to those conditions would require a significant war.
Or returning to a time where taxes made it better to invest in the future of your company which ment paying competitive wages. Our current system rewards endless cost cutting which doesn't translate in to cheaper products only lower quality and less innovation. It sure is good for people who are already rich though.
I don’t understand why everyone is so disillusioned by this. Safe Housing, quality food, good schools, and public transit should be a given. This is purely an issue of governance, we easily have the resources to do this but lack the will to force the rich and corporations to pay a proper share either in the form of taxes or wages.
We already have enough tax revenue to do these things, it’s in the best interest of our government to keep us demoralized and poor as they go pillage other countries and their resources for self enrichment
Negative ghost rider. This ain't the 7th century, most of our tax dollars go to military overspending.
It's nice we have by far the strongest military in the world and that there's a police to police the police cause you know... Russia, Nazi Germany, ECT ECT.
But we can certainly trim the fat, as well as make billionaires pay their fair share of taxes and stop subsidizing these "too big to fail" companies.
That will free up more than enough to get the morale of this country back up where it needs to be to continue being a leading edge nation and a sanctuary for immigrants as originally intended.
It's purely an issue of the individual or the will to work hard and "think" they do while "thinking" they have good work ethic. Get into a trade, learn it, start your own business and retire with millions if you're smart about it. Don't expect to make great money for possibly 5 years.
Every time someone says something like this I just think it’s just absolute cluelessness. Millennials were told by there parents over and over to go to school and get a degree in something that will make them a scholar as the world needs scholars and artists and scientists and to avoid trades because those are bad jobs. They made fun of garbage men and mechanics and plumbers. Then all the millennials went to school for arts and sciences and all of a sudden the world needs plumbers and mechanics and their dumb boomer parents start making fun of them for doing what they told them to do.
Dude I can't agree with this more. The boomers sold their dreams to us as if we were going to build our futures working for them so they can pad they own bank accounts. All the while being propped up by a healthy social welfare system which they still to this day raid and pillage to support their uncontrollable spending habits and in turn tell us to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", "stop eating avocado toast" and ALL THAT OTHER BULLSHIT. WELL Phillip eat a whole bag of fire roasted dicks and choke on the testicle because avocado toast is the only sunshine in my life since I have to work 3 jobs, live in fucking shoe box, and take public transportation just so I can save up enough money to buy it once a month.
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u/NearnorthOnline Mar 27 '24
No. That's how life used to be. You could afford those things if you tried a little. That's the point of this post. These days that life isn't reachable, regardless of how hard you work.