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My parents never made a lot of money, but they did great with what they had and are now living the sweet retired life. Im doing fairly well myself, but still need to be pretty careful about things. Every time I bring up things being tough, I get a response of “we only used to make…” And they just don’t get how that translates to today
Start having an inflation calculator handy when they try that shit. Like “oh, I only made 25k in 1980, you’re doing so good at 50k in 2016” (actual conversation with my mother), nevermind that she made basically 75k adjusted for inflation.
I’d like to say it shut her up once I started showing her how her raw numbers were bullshit at every step, but she found more things to argue about until she had to change the subject. But it at least made her shut up about it for a while though.
It’s going exactly as planned. Beating communism was about making this possible.
About the only good thing the USSR did was keeping the West serious about bribing the poor to stop them from overthrowing the elites because there was a ready made alternative if inequality got too bad.
That all ended in 1989.
The only thing that has gotten cheaper is electronics, everything else has gotten more expensive and of worse build quality.
everything else has gotten… of worse build quality
(It even applies to a lot of electronics chassis too, to be honest. Most devices aren’t machined-aluminum flagship laptops or whatever.)
well, the billionaires make the rules. things are better for the billionaires now and that’s the only thing that matters. so clearly the system is working and we are making progress.
I hope that’s his real name
Only at night. By day, he dons a snazzy Fedora and goes by the name “Frederick”
This is what annoys me when people say the US has higher salaries than in Europe. That’s true but then the cost of everything, especially healthcare is so much higher that it pretty much evens out.
Social democracy with a fair distribution of wealth ensures equitable outcomes for all which is ultimately better for society.
The car’s alright, because it disincentives car culture just that little bit (even if it hasn’t led to good public transit in most of the US), and because they’re about a billion times safer.
Everything else is bullshit though.
But then I remember that car now means light truck in the US.
Set it all on fire.
The car’s alright, because it disincentives car culture just that little bit (even if it hasn’t led to good public transit in most of the US), and because they’re about a billion times safer.
even in the best-transit-places, the transit here sucks.
