My anecdote: I make about the same as my dad did at this age and I have about the same QoL and a nicer, newer home. Our single experiences don’t add up to much.
Theirs is backed by easily reviewable wage vs cost data.
If you have the same income as your dad, you’re at a loss at every transaction, comparatively. There’s no trick to the price of gas or a stick of gum. Such things have straight gone up since our parents were young
A paycheck anywhere doesn’t go as far as one of 40 years ago. This is not my opinion
The suggestion that individual variance of experience could even remotely cover the perception that wages aren’t as effective as past decades is silly.
Bro same!
I’m making 5 times as much as I did when I was out of college. And I’m still nowhere near what my parents had.
Which either implies I was living in extreme poverty back then, or this is a hellhole.
My anecdote: I make about the same as my dad did at this age and I have about the same QoL and a nicer, newer home. Our single experiences don’t add up to much.
Theirs is backed by easily reviewable wage vs cost data.
If you have the same income as your dad, you’re at a loss at every transaction, comparatively. There’s no trick to the price of gas or a stick of gum. Such things have straight gone up since our parents were young
A paycheck anywhere doesn’t go as far as one of 40 years ago. This is not my opinion
Right. My point is anecdotes are just that.
…there’s anecdotes and then there’s anecdotes.
Some are confirmed by data, and some are fantasy.
The suggestion that individual variance of experience could even remotely cover the perception that wages aren’t as effective as past decades is silly.
Glad you get it.
One of us has to
They’re quarterswede, 3/4 troll :)
Indeed.