The fact that you said you would have to live without a computer, any tv, and without a smart phone AND still think you only maybe could do it instead of definitely being able to do it proves exactly our point.
Besides smart phones are really cheap, you can get one for $20. If you think you couldnt afford a smart phone while supporting 6 kids it means you would literally not have 20 bucks in the bank. if literally ANYTHING went wrong you are entirely fucked. Your car breaks down, you cant go to work and cant afford to fix it, and because you dont have a phone you cant tell your job that you are going to be late/cant make it in and they fire you for no-call no-showing. If your roof gets damaged, you cant afford to fix it and your house floods and gets condeemed. ETC ETC ETC
Lol how much does the phone line cost per month? How mush does internet cost?
If you’re going to live a lifestyle with way more luxuries than people of the past, you can’t complain about people of the past being able to get more out of their paycheck.
When I was homeless I had a $20 phone and had paid for minutes and texts individually, no monthly charge. I paid like $15 a year for it since I only ever called/texted my job, so if you want to make that into a monthly cost it was $1.2 a month.
Once again if you cant afford that then you are absolutely fucked.
Yeah this just sounds like a guy who has it pretty good complaining about his lobster being too buttery. You mean one guy had 6 kids and a house and a stay at home wife and road trips to Wisconsin? You got to have a neighborhood where you can have a social life? I'll work 70 hours a work and not even be able to afford to live in town by myself.
no way. the economy is less strong now than what the Boomers enjoyed (there was like this economic boom). Boomers' brains' peaked in like the 1980's. Why would anyone expect their economic advice to be perfectly updated for an economy they never experienced?
Whining about Boomers is less than useless. Hating Boomers, maga, etc. is just useful division politics to confuse you from your actual problems. Hate is serving your corporate owners more than it's serving you. Stop being owned instead imo.
If you dont like the way Boomers vote.....neither do I. Luckily there are way more non-Boomers in the world, so any outcomes of elections are not strictly their doing.
He didn't say how much he was making so what are you even talking about? Are you saying with an IT job? Then your probably full of shit. I mean if someone is in a Principal Engineer level position pulling in $350k+ then ya, but those roles and salaries are rare. The average salary for a senior engineer in what I do is $150k ish, which would not support a family of 8 in a HCOL. Even in the Miami metro which is not quite as bad as the really HCOL a family of 8 on $150k isn't happening.
Who is holding a gun to your head saying you have to live in a HCOL area? I intentionally moved from an HCOL to rural(ish) Indiana. I live way better on a lot less.
This is really simple to verify if you don't believe it. Calculate a mortgage payment from the 80s and one from today using median home price and the appropriate interest rate, compare that to median income.
Below is rent divided by median personal income. Rents were also more expensive in the past relative to income.
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u/Alexyogurt 15h ago
And you honestly think your father could support a family of 6 on the same single income today?