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“There's this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

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[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 128 points 8 months ago

I had dinner with my mom last night. She told me she made $2.20/hr as a waitress in 1972. Not including tips.

That's the equivalent of over $16/hr now.

The boomers have no idea how lucky they were. And they fucking wasted it.

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 92 points 8 months ago

They weren't lucky. They voted for people that removed all the guardrails that enabled their success.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

I agree. I still think they were lucky insofar as they were born in the right place at the right time to benefit massively over future generations.

[-] some_guy 23 points 8 months ago

This is the important detail. Europe was destroyed and the USA was able to flourish. Opportunities existed that will likely never exist again. Capitalism has never been as great as it was in the USA post-WWII.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Ah, but the USA post-WWIII will be even better! Or at least growth capitalism suggests it will.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

America was basically the only industrialized country that hadn't been bombed to fuck. You had to be a clown to not succeed in that environment (or systemically oppressed, since opportunity in the US is always only for white people). Boomers took quality jobs making reliable products and moved those to low wage jobs making disposable products in China.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Boomers Now: "hey if we blow up half the world again maybe it will help the economy, also I'm way too old to be drafted"

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

They had too. They couldn't get rich if they had to pay workers what they were paid when they were starting out.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 6 points 8 months ago

Not mutually exclusive.

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

Waiters today make $2.13 an hour in my state.

[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Few people in that period had the information you have now. People were presented with this economic miracle in the 50s and there was little to no components other than conformity.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As more time has passed and I continually re-assess my Boomer parents, I am struck more and more that they truly were a propagandized generation who was never given the tools to properly think through what they were seeing. It was always just "here, more, buy this, this technology is new and amazing". Everything was new year after year until the late 80s/early 90s, when technology evened out. Even then people had cell phones and such. Once met with the Internet, especially through Facebook, we could see all of their problems flourish.

Not to say that any generation is better than any other or not, but I do believe that each generation after Boomers is actually much better than the previous one at critical thinking--probably because society had no choice but to and the fact that more people have at least a bachelors degree now.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Bachelor's degrees and unleaded fuel make a hell of a difference.

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