Thread 512733180

The boomers had it made growing up
Millenials and zoomers have nothing
Not sure what Gen X had
It can’t keep going on like this

>>512733180 (OP)
Its a twitter screenshot of a thing a guy said and you should be legally hanged

>>512733410
Actually it’s a Tik Tok screenshot
Everyone is fed up with this bullshit economy

>>512733180 (OP)
Minimum wage in 1970 was $1.60.

At 731% interest, the minimum wage would need to be $13.30 now.

So you are better off comparing this to the minimum wage of the late 90's when it went up to $7.25. that would be over $14 today

>>512733180 (OP)
The oldest Gen Alphas are at the age of getting minimum wage jobs. Should be fun to watch another generation hurl vitriol at Boomers.

>>512733180 (OP)
Gold is roughly $3400/oz. so it's really $141.44

>>512734079
>what is purchasing power

>massively higher population
>surveillance state due to tech advancement and progressivism
>increased regulation (socialism)
>massive inflation due to decades of governments passing the buck
These are the main contributing factors to the financial crisis and quality of life decrease in the west. Boomers are only guilty of enjoying possibly the apex point in time when technology and prosperity had advanced but security and regulation hadn't caught up, resulting in a free and meaningful life surrounded by whites in communities that had jobs for anyone who was looking. Kikes will always try to cultivate and aim your ire at eachother, hence articles constantly criticizing millennials and now gen z.

>>512734505
Our money is completely worthless. Zimbabwe-tier

>>512734784
Shut up boomer

>>512733180 (OP)
You literally have to be retarded to believe this.

>>512733180 (OP)
>>512733284
And that's just the MINIMUM wage. Most boomers could easily get factory jobs paying multiple times more.

>>512733180 (OP)
> Not sure what Gen X had

We got to work for the princely sum of $3.35 an hour for minimum wage, and while prices were cheaper, that was always joke money and why no fast food places could keep any teenagers for more than six months back then, because even a crappy $5 an hour dishwasher job nearly doubled your rate.

But we did get to see the society that our ancestors had built as kids, and watch helplessly as our boomer parents sold it off for fresh shekels

>>512735002
I'm 34. I can already tell you that both of us would do the same in their position because nobody lives life like they're a soldier of their generation.

>>512734784
>Boomers are only guilty of enjoying possibly the apex point
Boomer hands typed this.

>>512735131
I mean, the OP said the same thing. Are you retarded or just american?

>>512733180 (OP)
>Wage dynamics, especially CEO salary to average company salary, dramatically changed after Reagan
>Soviet bloc dissolved at the same time and Russia abandoned communism
Do you need help adding 2 and 2 together ?

>>512733180 (OP)
GenX here
we were raised feral
latchkey generation
the freedom was cool, not going to lie
not all boomer parents were selfish drunks, but mine were
my 20's sucked hard, I didn't get my financial legs until Y2K
that was pretty awesome
didn't last long though, dot bomb in 2001
Bush kept issuing H1-Bs, even though there were massive tech layoffs
he was a faggot

I'm not even that mad about the wage side of things, these economic waves always happen.
I'm however really angry about the rapid niggerification of human lands, as that's far worse than the worst economic collapses in human history put together.

>>512735306
>GenX
>everyone must care about me and my super cool and unique experience
faggot

>>512735306
>we were raised feral latchkey generation
You want to know how I can tell you weren't actually raised feral? Because every fucking one of you says this shit. Kill yourself, by the way

>>512733284
This guy gets it

>>512735382
he said he wasn't sure what genX had
I told him
I liked millenials, after my divorce, I fucked a bunch of 19-22 year olds
good times

>>512733180 (OP)
The home purchasingpowerof minimum wage in the 1970s was more like $18,000 per month in Cali.

>>512735480
Ok, so what item costed $1.60 in 1970 and $93 in 2022

>>512735575
It's completely insane here. You would need $80/hr min to afford housing.

>>512735306
People who shit on Gen X literally forget what the late 70s/early 80s were like.

The feral child gangs of NYC, Detroit, the homelessness problems. Basically everywhere you looked homeless Gen X children.
It's gotten worst, but we've also learned to survive Boomer bullshit.

Gen X had it fucking hard, they had these super rich, super successful parents and suddenly companies weren't hiring, education was starting to become non-viable.
Absolutely nightmare fuel.

You guys need to go watch the movies of this time and realize why they were talking about these things
>Suburbia
>Assault on Precinct 13
>The Warriors
>Escape from NY
>Deatbeat At Dawn
80s was super sunshine for like half of Gen X and was nightmare fuel for the other half.

>>512734603
Op was talking about wages, Anon. Price gouging is not the same as inflation

>>512733180 (OP)
Wild shit, tradies don't even make that here lol, place is fucked. Anyway I got back on gibs and don't have to give a fuck for the next year LOL, enjoy the Big Monday grind tomorrow wagies HAHAHAHAAHA

>>512735735
a blowjob from a 6/10

>>512733180 (OP)
imagine spending the millions on surgery this retard did to hide your nose lineage, only to come out looking like you got hit by the Tay-Sachs bat. A comb-over at that age is hilarious.

>>512735747
I don't mind the salt
I think we overcompensated
millennials are pretty spoiled because we were helicopter parents
they like to whine, so GenX "fuck it anyway" attitude pisses them off

>>512735747
>and suddenly companies weren't hiring
what were they doing? outsourcing? importing poops?

>>512735925
kek

>>512735575
my parents bought the house I grew up in for 60k in the early 70's
houses on that street now are $3.5M

>>512733180 (OP)
Fake news. Get to work you worthless lazy millenials

1970: Minimum wage was $1.60/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $13.39 in 2025 dollars.

1971: Minimum wage remained $1.60/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $12.77 in 2025 dollars.

1972: Minimum wage was $1.60/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $12.37 in 2025 dollars.

1973: Minimum wage was $1.60/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $11.93 in 2025 dollars.

1974: Minimum wage increased to $2.00/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $13.63 in 2025 dollars.

1975: Minimum wage increased to $2.10/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $12.80 in 2025 dollars.

1976: Minimum wage increased to $2.30/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $13.14 in 2025 dollars.

1977: Minimum wage remained $2.30/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $12.49 in 2025 dollars.

1978: Minimum wage increased to $2.65/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $13.47 in 2025 dollars.

1979: Minimum wage increased to $2.90/hour. Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $13.49 in 2025 dollars.

>>512735456
>Because every fucking one of you says this shit.

Because it was fucking true.
The last time I came home from school to a parent in the house was 5th grade. After that I saw my mom before school for breakfast and saw dad at 7 or 8 when he rolled home from the shipyard. I was asleep before mom got back.

Shut your fucking mouth, Anon, She was a surgical nurse at the local hospital, not a whore.

>>512733180 (OP)
>Not sure what Gen X had
Not enough numbers to matter, so we checked out of giving a fuck.

>>512736147
kys kike

>>512733284
thats not even accurate current gold price.
gold price is at 3399.40/oz right now.
0.0416x3399.40=141.42

boomer minimum wage in the 70s was 141 dollars per hour

>>512733180 (OP)
>65 per hour
And that's how Al Bundy was able to support his entire family with a retail job despite being the only one working.

its sucked dick, NAFTA immediately began gutting the job market.

started HS with tons of jobs everywhere, paying 3-4x min wage. by the time i graduated, the plant my mother worked at was in the process of being dismantled and shipped to Israel, the plant my father worked at would be dismantled and shipped to the midwest as the US auto industry adopted Toyota just in time supply chain and moved anything critical to within a 4 hour drive of assembly lines.

whole fucking region went dead before 9/11. it has only partially recovered because of Tech from building a local office and relocating people who couldn't afford to live anywhere near the old office.

small scale machine shops doing big money 1 offs, guns, and highly FED regulated manufacturing is the only thing left. there is almost nothing between retail and educated white collar jobs anymore.

Trades are popping the fuck off though, because the trade meme started in the 80s, when electricians/etc barely made more than a Manufacturing job. average age of a master electrician is 59 and journeyman is like 45.

>>512736143
I took a closer look and the 3.5M home had a lot of work done
1972 = 60k
2025 = ~2M
not quite as bad as my first post

>>512733180 (OP)

It’s actually really bad. And no one is talking about it.

>>512735344
>I'm not even that mad about the wage side of things, these economic waves always happen.


Yeah sure but at same time it's enough to ruin your youth years , specially if you come from lower economic background , my youth years I was literally poor and came to realize and wake up to my reality later on in life . Worked most of my youth years for nothing and on top of it being humilitaded by people in higher work positions even the coworkers .

Every place I worked I was always viewed as hardworking but at same time they would taunt me with the hierarchy and social ladder bullshit .

Now have fun with the savages and criminals , at least I was a civilized member always minding my life and never ever bothering anyone , yet my own coutrymen peers (not all obvious) but there were some nasty motherfuckers from coworkers , managers fucking my mind with silly sptupid pseudo moral authoritarian, patronizing condescending larp
Now let them handle the savages and let them remember me as lost peaceful ghost turned non existent soul
Not my problem, whites fucked up bad

I refuse to be a savage , I rather die of starvation than steal or sell drugs.

Fuck this clown world , for me this ride is over

>>512736511
>boomer minimum wage in the 70s was 141 dollars per hour

I did the math based on real silver dollars.
My minimum wage job during high school was 116.02$ per hour in today's Biden Bucks.

116$ an hour

Kek. You guys are fucked.

>>512735925
this

>>512736147
>>512733284
>>512735480

>>512736190
>The last time I came home from school to a parent in the house
Is that what defines latchkey? Cause I've got news for you Mr. Gen-Xer. I, a Millennial, never once came home from school to my mom being there. Ever. Sometimes step-dad was there, but that's only because he worked rotating shiftwork in a powerplant. Most of the time, adults weren't around. So wow, you had parents waiting for you up to 5th grade? That's quite the luxury you had there.

>>512733180 (OP)
>The boomers had it made growing up
Yeah, no kidding.

>>512736147
CPI is deceptive
I think the best real measure of inflation is housing costs since it's typically the biggest expense
In California 1974 min wage would be about $50 by my rough calcs

found this chart, it looks like ~1980 was when it started getting stupid, and ~2008 it got really stupid
https://listwithclever.com/research/home-price-v-income-historical-study/

>>512733284
While using gold to calculate the real wage is based and correct, it's important to remember that virtually all manufacturing, power generation, logistics, and efficiency in general is far better than it was in 1970. So not only should you be making more in purchasing power terms, that same purchasing power would be able to buy far, far more commodities. If the boomers were living like kings at minimum wage, we should be living like emperors on minimum wage. The amount of wealth those of us with "good paying" jobs should have is almost unfathomable.

YOU NEED TO BE MORE ENTITLED. YOU LEGITIMATELY DESERVE MORE.

Yeah but TVs are 98% cheaper than when they came out you guys

>>512738354
>>512738237

>>512733180 (OP)
The solution is to literally do nothing. It takes more effort and energy to keep getting fucked than to fix all the bullshit.

>>512738504
Yet the coal miner and assembly worker somehow made enough to afford a three bedroom house, two vehicles, two kids and a wife. Comfortably.

Really makes me think.

>>512738354
>it's important to remember that virtually all manufacturing, power generation, logistics, and efficiency in general is far better than it was in 1970.


Such good point, with all techonology and modernization , yet I was living the late 00's basically being lower middle class suburb broke youth . All around me was wiggers and drugs, whites larping as hard ass street badass and black gangs, a melting pot basically
I ended up isolating myself and either only stay at home , because my jobs actually did ot gave much free time at all to live life anyway , ad whe I had free time I would just escape to the fancy areas of the capital were the scum was nowhere near to be seen, that was the good part of it, yeat at same time was harder to make cool friends, the suburb where I used to live in my youth years , I would just avoid the locals , and because I was lower middle class it was also hard to blend in with the trust fund young adults and youths in the good parts of the big city that was actually almost one hour distance by train from the suburbs, it was far, also money was a problem, I mean I had enough to get by but that was the limit .
And the fucking jobs did not help, always leaving me with no time from the split shifts ad sometimes even working on weekends, o top of it a fucking wage that always made me feel poor.

Gen X explained:

Our parents divorced when we were young, they both married up. They were subordinate to their wealthier spouse. We were not welcome in the homes of either rich step parent. They lived rich, we got by. And they gaslit us about it all.

>>512738354
In other words, the boomers fucked multiple generations after them and built golden tombs for themselves

>>512733180 (OP)
GenX were just like boomers
bad attitudes, brains full of lead gasoline poisoning, everything handed to them,greedy,ignore their children

>>512740311
Boomers in training. Same attitude with worse morals.

>>512739816
I always see many talking about boomers here but another gen probably worst than boomers that are the precedents of boomers.
I'm talking about the baby boomers the generation that came after the boomers.
Baby boomers are the worst , I don't like to generalize cause even some boomers had life on hard mode, like in ay generation you will have warming cool people and the opposite like complete douchebags senseless animals larping as civilized and important.

I'm not radicalized by politics and I find all this right/left circus pathetic , the only thig that would make me iinto some werid dimension of the mind where I become some supremacist , It would be cause of whites , I would literally fuck up a bunch of white douchebags .
But I'm balanced to not fall for mindless anger, I want to remain civilized and in harmony with the self .


Now let them handle the savages , and being taunted by police state system and vaxxed like the cattle they are

>>512738237
Holy shit. I could retire after ten years making that kind of money.

>>512733180 (OP)
All the faggots bitching will go in the next thread and complain about Trump, while he's the only one who's ever even considered trying to fix this sinking ship. Go bust your ass like I've been doing since my first paper route at 9 years old, the world doesn't owe you shit.

>>512733180 (OP)
But Shitcoin is 100000k per single unit of Monkey jpg.

>>512741204
that pic is utterly fucking retarded
the greenback was working perfectly well until the central banks cartel started printing fake money and flooding the US with it
you know why they pushed for gold and silver?
because they were controlling it

>>512738354
We will never get more because kikes are blatantly and outright siphoning this nation until its inevitable collapse. What we realistically need and can realistically achieve is massive organized political violence, IE: Revolution(see, Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War) except this time it will be specifically against jews and their shabbos goyim.

That is our only solution. There is *no* other solution that exists.

>>512737656
>>512735456
>>512740311
>>512740590
GenX'ers are sort of like Boomers-lite. They complain/oppressionbrag about their own childhoods, utterly oblivious (and uncaring) about how future generations still have it worse.

>M-my parents didn't home until 8! I was a latchkey kid. Stay feral, GenXies!
Some of these kids nowadays grow up with *one* parent that *never* comes home. Listening to Xoomers complain about their childhoods is like listening to a Boomer coworker complain about having to sell his second boat. Head in the clouds.

>>512735382
>>512735456
You know what seperates Boomers from Gen X? We in Gen X, since we were raised to be extremely independent, do not give the slightest fuck what the later generations think of us, while the Boomers think they were the saviours of the human race.

>>512741044
>Go bust your ass like I've been doing since my first paper route at 9 years old, the world doesn't owe you shit.

Don't go in that route , yes the world don't own us shit yet we could had more balance and the best of this existence, yet you exist in a prison planet voided of true evolution

Yet it's more easy to say the word don't own me shit that making a world of prosperity and collecting good fruits from life .
The world does not own you shit , but the world could had been different to a point that the concept of owning something to others would not even exist in your mind , but you seem to accept it.

>>512733180 (OP)
Gen X are just like boomers, millennials would've been too had they the opportunity.

>>512741595
Forgot pic

>>512733180 (OP)
boomer hate threads are jews trying to distract you into hating your own family for the problems caused by jews. read mein kampf and understand.

Remember slugger, just look them dead in the eye and give a firm handshake.

>>512733180 (OP)
>had it made
no, that was normal life. it should be like that now --- but it's not *for some reason*

it is up to people to change this

PICREL
PICREL
PICREL
>picrel
PICREL
PICREL

>>512741729
https://youtu.be/Nhy6MQ6Yh0c?list=RDNhy6MQ6Yh0c
[Verse]
I just shook the handshake, I just sealed the deal
I'll try not to let them take everything they can steal
People always told me, said, "Don't forget your roots"
I know I can feel them underneath my leather boots

[Chorus 1]
You toss all the mornings lost to the clouds
And you watch it go
Your fair weather friends on a parachute binge
Get lost when the wind blows
The handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongue
It tastes like death but it looks like fun

[Bridge]
I was a loner, I was just waiting by myself
When you, warped temptress, rose to bring me happiness and wealth
Black tears, black smile, black credit cards and shoes
You can call all the people you want, but it's you who's being used
Under your black eyes, honey, right beneath your nose
A curse on all creation, every single thing you know
White smoke, white light, white marble on the floor
It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what's in store
Little girl

[Chorus 2]
You convince yourself that you want it
But you don't know
You keep on tryin' to wash the blood from your hands
But it won't go
We're gonna keep you on the run
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue


MGMT
Kids
MGMT

We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake

We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake

>>512738354
I'm a rat person though, I could live on like 3 dollars a day.

I'm an honorary jeet. i'm sorry but I'm a scab sir.

>>512733180 (OP)
>Not sure what Gen X had
they had same as boomers but either cashed out (and by this time probably died, suicide or otherwise) or just fumbled the ball

>>512738354
The compound growth in real wages is anemic vs productivity for the median household

>>512741305
>Calls out the picture as retarded
>Immediately points out why the picture is correct
Is this some new leaf meme?

>>512733180 (OP)
I don’t think Gen x had the numbers to stop boomer tyranny and they don’t seem to like millennials lol that much.

>>512741679
I can hate jews and I can also hate boomers for assisting in creating this hellscape. Politicians are the only way for change outside of total collapse. Remind me the average age of a member of congress again?

>>512734784
Fuck off lolbert faggot.

Its CORPORATE GREED.

>>512738354
Even if median real wages better matched productivity gains, what type of people are we becoming? Is our world more virtuous, more decent, more gentile, more chivalrous?

>>512733180 (OP)
Gen x mostly slipped through the gate before it slammed shut. They're doing okay. Unless they fucked up bad in the 90s. At least a lot of them realized that, and aren't dicks about it so they don't draw the same ire as boomers.

>>512733180 (OP)
I am a zoomer and my parents are from the Greatest Generation. Am I gonna make it? What kind of shit do you have to talk about them? Or hasn't the internet told you how you're supposed to hate on them?

>>512734248
You act as if they didn’t start it by constantly talking about us thing every economy.

>>512738354
Are our relationships with community and citizens stronger or weaker than?

>>512741679
Good point, we should start calling them "point out why boomers are disgusting failures" threads instead. Hate is emotional and woman-like. Boomers love to talk about how they hate [insert literally anything other than Jews]

>>512742279
>be utterly fucking retarded amerimutt
>don't know your own history
the greenback was printed because the City of London central banking mafia was fucking the US in the ass it's Rockefeller Warberg and the other central bankster who printed a shitload of counterfeit and printed that propaganda so it fails
the rest is history fat slave

>>512733180 (OP)
AND.....
...it's bullshit.

- $65 today = $10.86 in 1975
- minimum wage in the USA in 1975 was NOT $10.86, it was $2.10
- $2.10 in 1975 = $12.55 today
many US states have a higher minimum wage than that


not fucking idea who Andres Garay is, but he's lying

>>512742595
>Calls me retarded
>Points out why I was right
So it's a leaf meme?

>>512733280
>be me
>driving commuter shitbox alone
>classic car convertible pulls up next to me
>it's occupied by two boomer couples that looked like the lower panel, boomer men in the front with gray hair, and the boomer women in the back with bleached blond hair
>all their hair is waving in the wind as they drive off
it was funny as fuck since they were acting like teenagers, but then something struck me. they weren't acting like today's teenagers because today's teenagers aren't carefree people riding around in convertibles, they were acting like the teenagers they used to be and even driving around the car that was cool when they were in high school. the whole scene was strange.

>>512742761
>be 60IQ morbidly fat retard
>double down on being retarded
your governement was printing the greenback
it wasn privately owned fucking utter retard
it's not because they printed too much of it
it's because the central banking mafia counterfeited it and used it to enslave your shithole you fucking brainless communist drone

>>512742734
Bet you don't understand per capita either

>>512742734
it's talking about the silver standard

>>512733180 (OP)
>>512733280
>>512733284
>>512735079

see:
>>512742734
>>512742734
>>512742734

>>512742734
>According to CPI
No one cares about your made up bullshit. Go back to k, bootlicking faggot.

>>512742836
>Cartoonist warns that fiat will be printed into oblivion
>Cartoonist was right
>"But the cartoonist was only right because..."
You're the one with a double digit IQ.

>>512743034
>The City of London central banking mafia release propaganda so they can seize the production of money around the world
>fast forward 100 years later
>some 300 lbs blob of corn syrup hate le fiat currency
fiat work when it's not privately owned and for profit and when it's based on sound money
the gold standards is utterly fucking retarded plus you don't even have any fucking gold left in Fort Knox

>>512742851
you're not refuting the facts i posted, just postulating something entirely different.
i wasn't saying life is harder or easier now or then, i was saying OP pic is based on a lie ---- and it is up to people to do due diligence.

why did you fail that basic test?

>>512733180 (OP)
>is equivalent to
>is the equivalent of
NIGGER!!!
MONKEY!!!
FAGGOT!!!

>>512743034
compound interest
usury
the fractional banking system
it's what fuck the money right now
not the "fiat" part of the name

>>512742592
HYPER ULTRA WEAK
A dreadful sense of almost emptyness like one cannot trust almost anyone or nothing , a save yourself world , mind your own belly while the dog eats the dog and the world .

I'm not even joking , it's cold outside and empty

Call me crazy . maybe I'm just a crying baby , it's just that I cannot unwatched what my mind have seen

>>512739816
Boomers are solipsistic in the truest sense of the world. The believe that existence itself ends with them, or that it might as well end with them. When you understand this you will fully understand boomer behavior, especially "irrational" things like blowing all their money on cruises and casinos. In their mind, there IS nothing to save for. There *literally* is no consequence. If existence itself winks out at the end of your life, why not blow it all at a casino?

>>512742734
Even the government stats disagree with you, picrelated.

>>512742592
>>512742429
What kind of victim-blame gaslighting bullshit is this? A people having their financial lifeblood stolen aren't going to have the time or energy to form strong communities or act as as effective polity. This is why general poverty is always priority one for any despotic regime.

>>512742734
CPI is absolute fucking made up bullshit that in 1980 during stagflation was "recalculated" (cut in half, after already being a bullshit metric) to make the carter admin look like not a bunch of bumbling idiots they are

my unions uses CPI to determine pay raises and they specifically do that to jew me out of money. the companies fucking love it because its such a scam

do you know anything

>>512743257
Forgot pic

>>512743243
>Lists a bunch of things that are either impossible or more difficult when you use hard money instead of fiat
Hmmmmmmmmm

Kill yourself commie fuck

>>512743364
>genuine 60IQ
holy fuck your country is done
no wonder you're in that shit

>>512743132
We're talking purchasing power, quality of life, parity. I'm refuting your entire premise that simple inflation is a valid metric, using gold value like OP is far more accurate.

>>512742403
ah yes the bullshit brandon administration talking point to explain away printing trillions and trillions of dollars, inflating everyone's savings to absolute trash

>muh corporate greed

>>512743257
>Even the government stats disagree with you
Look up what minimum wage was
Look up dollar value then and now
Do basic math
profit

>>512743332
How do you think this is a refutation of what OP is arguing? If wages are being siphoned off (stolen), they're being siphoned off somewhere.

>>512733180 (OP)
>Not sure what Gen X had
the country was still in pretty good shape but the brainwashing was getting dire

>>512736511
>boomer minimum wage in the 70s was 141 dollars per hour
damn we're really cooked

>>512743418
Post a credible, sourced chart or spreadsheet that shows the opposite of the one I posted. Oh wait you can't because it doesn't exist.

>>512743332
Kek I just realized this CEO pay chat is from the some source I posted, the Economic Policy Institute. So you'll agree with their data but not their conclusions? You truly are truly a moron.

>>512743532
that's about what my boss makes one rung above me and he's in a middle/slightly upper middle class neighborhood supporting his family

you think that's like italian sports car and wealthy house territory. nope.

>>512733180 (OP)
/pol/ is also against raising the minimum wage to be what the boomers had

>>512737038
My college taught me to drink a tall boy before a test to get higher scores so I stop second guessing myself.
I am autistic and this was my teachers real solution and it actually worked. I don't drink, I neve have since then or did after aside from some champagne or something at a job.

I made the deans list. It was a community college but the point was that I was inside my own head. I knew the shit and I could prove it. But not write it without overthinking.

>>512743616
no a moron knows when to stop digging saar

>>512743418
>Do basic math
That's the thing, the math is very complicated and can be done in an infinite number of ways. The fact that you don't understand that means you're not qualified to discuss this topic.

>>512737038
>>512743667
I was 17, a high school drop out (ged equivalent, I thought another 2 years in highschool was a waste) and trying to get a college degree for work and I had a teacher giving me alcohol for higher test scores.


I was child labor before child labor was cool. Full time employment since I was 12.

Check out this cowboy batman I found at Walmart.

>>512743641
you don't get buying power by printing more money you get inflation
you gain buying power with deflation but that's never going to happen anymore because we live in a post fractional banking system and the banks print as much money as they need to buy every fucking physical assets that exist while you get the crumbles who trickle down from their fat mouth

>>512743416
This is a false dichotomy. Yes, mass printing is inflating away everyone's wealth. And yes, CEOs like Larry Fink and Sundar Pichai are greedy fucks who will steal anything not nailed down. The uniparty spreads bits of the truth on each side of the aisle so that unity on real issues is impossible. The wokeness/identity politics surge was a reaction to the occupy Wall Street movement for example. By getting associated with the woke left, the ensured the right is effectively neutralized on fighting usury and corporatism.

No one's mentioning all the immigration legal and illegal as a core factor so I'll do it.

>>512743667
>My college taught me to drink a tall boy before a test to get higher scores so I stop second guessing myself.
This is fascinating actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer_Peak
Do you find that there's diminishing returns point where your intoxication becomes counterproductive? What beer works best for you?

>>512734802
That's the actual issue -- measuring worth in something that has diminishing value.

>>512743903
wat
you called it a false dichotomy then agreed with me

>>512743809
>you don't get buying power by printing more money you get inflation
This isn't quite true. The party that prints or gets to spend the printed money first DO get a real gain in purchasing power because they get to spend the new currency at face value since the market hasn't gotten to adjust to the higher currency supply yet. People constantly argue that "inflation is theft" but forget that theft benefits the thief.

>>512736147
the basket of goods approach to inflation has just led to a life of lower quality substitutes.

>>512742472

we're just lying low, cashing out
watching millenials and zoomers deal with AI and all the BS woke shit
please just don't fuck up the markets

>>512744137
You were mocking "corporate greed" as a non-issue. Do you understand what a false dichotomy is?

>>512744165
fair
yeah maybe I didn say it properly the conclusion is inflation
for a very short period of time there's an increase in buying power
like everyone believed they were rich in Weimar

>>512733180 (OP)
>Min wage in the '70s is the equivalent of $65 her hour now.
Not even remotely close to being true. Adjusted for inflation, minimum wage had peak purchasing power in 1968, when it was $1.60/hr, the equivalent of a little over $14/hr today.

>>512744223
show me where did i say it was a non issue

>>512743954
So if you think like for example us the millennials were trash m have fu with Islam and all the others


You look back and see me as a angel , and you will lose and the ones of your own society that are o top will step on you like a insect

No worries I will have the same faith , but remember this and plant it in your mind like a cursed tree that only gives rotten fruits, none of this people, this so called humans , the 8 billions of them and not even the 1% , none of them combined are the creator

Humans did not created shit Death will be salvation and return to the celestial state of consciousness

Not my problem, this planet is not my home

>>512742734
Price index is a scam everywhere. It's just an excuse to cover for government stupidity.
Even the bigmac index is somewhat more accurate than that shit. Dont bring consumer index in a discussion unless you want to be called an idiot.

>>512744441
Well the reason I bring it up is because failing to understand this point (I don't mean you just in general) leads people to completely misunderstand various policies. With the covid checks for example, ordinary citizens were the first spenders, so they *actually got the benefit of the inflation "theft"*. Who didn't get covid checks? Corporations. So, *to the extent that those checks caused any inflation*, corporations paid for it, not check recipients. Any inflation outside of that was just more bullshit government expenditures and *cannot* be associated to the covid checks. Covid checks were great policy, but people who don't understand that inflation *benefits the first recipients* can never understand this.

>>512733180 (OP)
jews have stolen your wealth

>>512744052
Yea.
1 tall boy. Anymore and you are heading back into the same direction of over thinking. I didn't finish it usually. It was like 1/2 a can at most. Im not a drinker at all. I never have since then either. I'm just bad with being put on the spot or tested. But if you leave me alone I'm like a Roman slave building temples. I do construction and owned my own contracting business till last year. I learned about how some stuff worked I didn't like and I quit everything to homestead and self provide.

>>512734505
>Gold is roughly $3400/oz. so it's really $141.44
Wrong, and completely irrelevant.
The US and basically the entire world were on a fixed gold standard from WWII to 1971, and the price of gold was artificially fixed at $35/oz. But this doesn't mean you could just take your $35 of minimum wage pay and trade it for an oz of gold. Because it was illegal for US civilians to even own gold for that entire period of time. And it was several more years before it even became legal to enter into contracts involving payment in gold.

>>512738354
This is true. People calling people entitled are just being cheapskate who think if anyone besides them has any resources, that's less for them.

>>512744819
>>512743954
So if you think like for example us the millennials were trash , have fun with Islam and all the others


You will look back and see me as a angel compared with what is coming actually already here , and you will lose and the ones of your own society ad kid that are on top and middle mans will step on you like a insect

No worries I will have the same faith , but remember this and plant it in your mind like a cursed tree that only gives rotten fruits, none of this people, this so called humans , the 8 billions of them and not even the 1% , none of them combined are the creator

Humans did not created shit Death will be salvation and return to the celestial state of consciousness

Not my problem, this planet is not my home

>>512733180 (OP)
it's not the 70's anymore, Dorothy. keep seething, 4th worlder.

>>512733180 (OP)
Gen X is part of the problem.

>>512739714
This is my Gen X parents to a tee. Ruined the family, divorced, married richer spouses who let their kids have anything.

Both my parents do this.

>>512744865
Translated

>>512744052
I did construction. I wasn't like a computer boy. Iw as when I was younger.
I learned typing on type writers and my coding experience is like html at best. I wrote a a website in notepad as a kid just to see if I could and it was dumb and a mess. I'm handy, but practically handy.

I also don't recommend getting drunk before doing shit. I think I was a special circumstance cause I couldn't stop thinking about the questions being too easy or a trick. I think the alcohol slowed my brain down enough to just accept my first answer.
Im a pot head now. Everyday. Like a medication. I don't get high off it anymore.
Married.
Kids.
Self sufficient.

>>512744725
it's a temporary beneift and if there's no mechanism to take that money out of circulation (deflation) it's just accumulating
right now we don't live in Zimbabwe simply because the greed of the elites save the economy.
They're centralizing the wealth so fast it doesn't stagnate in the lower class.
They printed more money in the last 15 years than in the 90 prior to it.
Yet everyone have never been poorer.
It's how they hide inflation right now but it can't keep going forever.

>>512735480
ShadowStats are completely retarded. The dude just cherry picked whatever year he could find the largest discrepancy in the official "basket of goods" used to calculate inflation and the actual street prices. He then cumulatively extrapolated back that same percentage difference every single year going back forever.
Anyone who thinks $1.60 in 1970 could actually buy the same thing as $93.06 today is smoothbrained as fuck.

>>512736030
Automating, or moving their operations overseas.

>>512744819
Emotions that you did not even created, you are just a human, your psychology is of a species that eats flesh of dead animals from the supermarket


The fuck you know about emotional states ?

Are you voided of them, yet you get all emotional about politics and your pathetic larp about muh race

Whites like you only care about money and marking territory, that is why you don't have a real home...

>>512744861
>People calling people entitled are just being cheapskate who think if anyone besides them has any resources, that's less for them.
It's just basic gaslighting. Aristocrats of all times and places lived off UBI from the government. This is literally where the word "royalty" in the sense of passive income, IP licensing rights etc. comes from. Of course the aristocracy is going to tell the peasantry that UBI (now rebranded as "welfare" or "handouts") is bad for them. Conversely, "If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor".

Once again, YOU NEED TO BE MORE ENTITLED. YOU DESERVE MORE.

>>512733180 (OP)
You'd probably be getting paid that amount for some shitkicker job if unions weren't crushed in the late 70s, and billionaires would still be billionaires.

Everything would be fine.

>>512743702
"what could you buy with one hour's payin 1975 versus 2025?"

>>512745102
I suggest using chatgpt to translate your posts from your native language to English first, for your own benefit.

>>512745166
>Once again, YOU NEED TO BE MORE ENTITLED. YOU DESERVE MORE.
very very true

>>512745052
>it's a temporary beneift
No to the first spenders, in moderation, it's a permanent benefit. Otherwise they wouldn't inflate the currency, because it wouldn't get them anywhere. I'm not suggesting we try to "print our way to prosperity", but there IS a benefit to the first spenders.

>>512742389
Worthless generation, absolute waste of space.
That's why the boomers never retired, they couldn't trust Gen X to run anything.

>>512736143
>bought the house I grew up in for 60k in the early 70's
That would have been a very expensive house in a nice neighborhood back then. An average house in the '70s was in the $15-20k range.

>>512733180 (OP)
This always felt like a strange talking point, since I see it coming from leftists a bunch, but the natural reaction that most people have to it is
>wow
>things were so much better in the past
>maybe we should've preserved that
which results in them becoming more conservative.

>>512745166
>UBI is good
Have you ever been an adult on welfare?
No, you have not.

So then, how do you come by your opinion? Because UBI is more than numbers, there's an important human nature element involved.

>>512745439
>welfare
Using the scam language I already addressed in the post you replied to.
Well poisoner opinion disregarded.

>>512744735
Everyone not addressing this as the sole and root cause only followed by their shabbos goyim puppets (whom all deserve death along with their families) are idiots literally pissing into the fucking wind.

>>512745206
>Dunning-krueger response
Kek

>>512745206
>1975 a weeks worth of food
>2025 a point of FENTY
Inflation is a bitch

>>512745211
go pee and poop like the dogs and cows, go eat flesh of dead animals you absolute non creator humanoid

Next time prompt on chagpt that I reject you like a virus

>>512745102
Anyway, I don't blame you at all for seeking economic relief from American taxpayers, I blame our leaders in government and industry, you know, the names on the epstein list still being blackmailed to sell us out, and their predecessors, so I think we actually agree.

>>512744725
>Who didn't get covid checks? Corporations.
corporations don't have to wait to get a cheque to spend money tho
that's just us

>>512745617
Give yourself a hug from me.

>>512742788
Yeah their generation is probably the worst and or most capable of this type of behavior no other generation was spoiled from life to death and totally deluded like boomers

>>512736143
And then the tax bracket on $18k per month today really makes it like $25-30k per month after taxes....for minimum wage.

>>512733180 (OP)
The fed min wage in 1975 was $2.10, ($12.59 2025), lying commie fuck.

>>512738354
>While using gold to calculate the real wage is based and correct
No, because it wasn't even legal for civilians to own gold, because the price of gold was artificially fixed at $35/oz. As soon as Nixon took us off the gold standard and let the market determine the exchange rate of dollars to gold, the price of gold surged 20x in a few years.
Do the same analysis in 1980, when gold cost $670/oz, minimum wage was $3.10, meaning it took 216 hours of minimum wage work to buy an oz of gold.
Gold is currently $3,370/oz. Divide that by 216, and you get $15/hr for what that 1980 minimum wage would be equivalent to today.

>>512745833
>According to the CPI
Durrrrr, retard

Boomers are such fucking garbage.

>>512745270
>Otherwise they wouldn't inflate the currency
the problem is if you don't inflate the currency, there's only a finite amount of currency right
if there's only a finite amount of currency it's easy to hoard, right?
well it's why they came up with the fractional banking system to begin with
the idea wasn that bad at first
but it turned extremely fucking bad because it's unregulated and turn out humans are greedy assholes with little to no moral when it come to wealth
so it's where the fractional banking is from and it's why there's so much money in circulation
what you are really saying is different
you pretend that inflation profit to the first recipient and it's true
it's not you and me
it's the banks
the first recipient is the banks
if the population receive money directly like they did for covid19 it's a very temporary benefit
for example if we had UBI you would understand really fucking fast what I mean
really really really fucking fast
in under 6 month there would be so much money in circulation it would have fucked up the offer and demand completely, it would be a temporary gain in buying power since there would be nothing to buy anymore anyway
(it's ALSO what happened during covid19 when second hand market exploded like crazy because peoples had a shitload of money and a rage of consuming)
what you really meant is if the inflation is money directly given to the population it profit the population
yes
but temporarily
it's increasing the problem long therm
there's already too much money in circulation, in fact they can't even calculate how much money is already in circulation the only reason you don't go buy your food with a wheelbarrow already is because the money is centralized in the hand of a few elites

>>512745624
So why the fuck you say I react emotionally to a human system that makes me feel like I don't belong , that I totally reject , yet my posts are just emotionally crying in your point of view

you are all like me trapped here on the small corners of the internet like /pol/


Because you cannot unsee what the eye of your mind saw

>>512745875
>because the price of gold was artificially fixed at $35/oz
You understand if you make calculations based on a made-up government peg you're going to get nonsensical results compared to the real price right?

>>512745515
no, I'm asking about welfare.
not UBI.
I'm asking if you, as an adult, have ever received welfare (or whatever it's called where you live, but you know perfectly well what I mean).

We both know you haven't.
Standing on the sidelines deprives you of the experience of knowing what something like welfare does to a person.

So, I'm wondering why you think UBI is a good thing?
I assume you see it in an academic way, but you could bring a fresh perspective for all I know; so I asked.

I think it is a motivation killer because it is so similar to welfare.
I think welfare is, in principle, good, but ONLY if it is completely restructured.

The welfare system in the USA and Canada, and especially in the UK, almost guarantees poor people will remain poor.

>>512743287
That chart doesn't show what you think it does.
The line labelled "hourly compensation" is equivalent to the average hourly pay for non-supervisory production-line type workers.
The line labelled "productivity" is equivalent to the average hourly pay for the US workforce as a whole.
Unless you work on a shop floor or assembly line putting together widgets, your job's hourly compensation would be on the productivity line, which has continued to steadily increase.
The wages for non-supervisory production line workers has been stagnant since the '70s, because of globalization. Instead of those workers' wages increasing along with everyone else's, their employers would just send those jobs overseas if it became too expensive to pay people to do them here.

>>512733280
There is no way OP is accurate. $1.60 in 1970 is in no way equal to $65 bucks today. No way. Unless a shitty loaf of white bread and a half pound of baloney and some cheese is 65 bucks today. No fucking way.

>>512733180 (OP)
Every cradle to grave benefit the Boomers got was rug pulled on late Gen Xers. They had it made every step of the way then the ladder got pulled up after them.

>>512745966
You're overthinking this. Government printing/inflation is just legalized counterfeiting. Imagine you could counterfeit and spend money and get away with it. So you counterfeit a million dollars and buy a million dollars of assets. Real estate, stocks, gold, whatever. Do you see how you actually and irrefutably benefited? Now imagine someone successfully counterfeited the money and just handed it to you. Same thing.

Separately, fractional reserve banking isn't real. Credit creation is real. Look up Richard Werner, he was interviewed on Tucker Carlson about this recently.

>>512733284
>The U.S. dollar was officially depegged from gold on August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced the "Nixon Shock," ending the Bretton Woods system.

This is misleading. Gold had an artificially low price at the time due to it being illegal to actually buy. Do the same thing for 1972 and see what the result is.

>>512746004
I sense a good heart in you. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I totally reject the system and feel as you do too. It's valid.

>>512745964
pls stop being a useful idiot mindwashed tool of the elites

>>512746021
>You understand if you make calculations based on a made-up government peg you're going to get nonsensical results compared to the real price right?
Yes, of course, that's exactly what I am saying.
Everyone who is trying to calculate the "real" value of minimum wage in 1970 based on the price of gold in 1970 is getting non-sensical results because the "price of gold" in 1970 was a completely made-up artificial value. There was no real, market-determined price of gold in 1970, because an ordinary person couldn't legally go out and buy gold, even if the government said the price of gold was $35/oz.

>>512746184
Richard Werner love to mentally masturbate with pedantic. I love the dude but he's a bit retarded and autistic sometimes.
He's also saying the same thing I am. Not so strangely.
I think you don't fully understand the currant economic model.

>>512734248
no.

my son is gen z and he is 15, about to be 16. no way an alpha is getting a job when he is a week away from being old enough to qualify for his first.

>>512735084
My dad ruined his house, sold the $80 Grand. He spent about 40 grand on collectible plates and beanie babies and models which he left to mold in a basement. The plates are worthless. The rest of the money he blew within 6 months. He died at 61 and left us nothing. I never once went and did anything with my dad alone. He never taught me anything, all he wanted to do was watch TV & order to take out.

>>512743410
new pol sucks. he should have known what you were inferring. faggots everywhere. you're right.

>>512733180 (OP)
No.
Go look it up on a historical dollar value calculator.
It's not that wages lessened in value, it's that everything else increased in value because more millionaires and billionaires arose & began buying it all up.

>>512746284
If something is prohibited from being purchased it still has a price just a black market price. Arguing that you can't use gold for this reason is like arguing that an ounce of weed or heroin is impossible to calculate, a ridiculous statement.

>>512746427
*the price of an ounce

>>512733284
Am stupid or is this hard to understand

>>512746288
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJwlKURL_X0

>>512746365
>My dad ruined his house, sold the $80 Grand. He spent about 40 grand on collectible plates and beanie babies and models which he left to mold in a basement. The plates are worthless. The rest of the money he blew within 6 months. He died at 61 and left us nothing. I never once went and did anything with my dad alone. He never taught me anything, all he wanted to do was watch TV & order to take out.
Holy fuck hahaha, what a stupid faggot. My old man died from cancer, he at least killed someone as a young man and I watched him commit an attempted murder on a nigger with a baseball bat, must suck to have retarded faggot parents growing up

>>512746474
Gold value is a poor metric, but more accurate than simple inflation. Purchasing power is the real metric. Yes, they really lived like this on a minimum wage single income back then.

>>512733180 (OP)
Good times made boomers weak people. All divorced, selfish, soft cunts. My wife is a stronger person than my father and his brothers. Money is gay. Heil Hitler >>512746365
Case in point
>>512746412
And look at them. Soft and retarded and gay children. Just like the boomers.
God bless my arrogant but poor mother.

>>512746203
Not at all, as soon as you respond like that everything changes , and that is what this system does not seem to get, when we really comunicate and lower our egos just a bit, everything changes

They live in such weaponized world that end up reject emotion as if it was a weakness

when emotion was part of the creation


You did not hurt my feeligs at all, I was just born and had to live purgatory in my mind since young age , that is why I can soud pragmatic and overall emotional but I've been always trying to thrive for balance in the self.

>>512735084
>Not sure what Gen X had
>We got to work for the princely sum of $3.35 an hour for minimum wage
that's in the USA and because of a record-setting minimum wage freeze
median house price was $70K fwiw

again with the blame-the-boomer schtick
1. most Gen X parents were Silent Generation
2. blame the Silent and Boomer ELITES ffs, not the common man

when I moved to the US I was shocked to see every job that has been traditionally done by teens/students was being done by a middle-aged person from Mexico or Central America.
It's getting like that here now too, but the USA has been like that for deacdes.
that's not the fault of boomers, that's the doing of the government, the billionaires, and the corporations which benefit.

Regular people didn't benefit from that, and regular people made up 98% of the Boomer and SIlent generation

>>512737784
Skynet gonna bring forth day of the pillow

>>512746792
>the USA has been like that for deacdes.
The timeline really depends on where you are in the US. There are pockets of the Midwest where it's a much more recent phenomenon, 5-10 years.

>>512738237
>deceptive
>best real measure of inflation is housing costs
>In California...
lol
California is the standard -what?

what about Nebraska, Maine, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Iowa, et al?

>>512733180 (OP)
stolen money from humanity

>>512746537
kek Werner was still young, very interesting David Buik is a City of London lobbyist
very interdesting thanks

>>512735735
A man walks into a decent bar, drinks a glass of low-shelf whiskey and snacks on some chips and nuts, and then takes a taxi home. That's about 90$ worth of expenses in the modern day and would cost you a little over a dollar in 1970.

>>512739580
>hard to blend in
this is in your minds, not theirs
>no time from the split shifts
legit point
> made me feel poor
again, this is in your mind

>>512746780
Amen. The system incentivizes sociopathy, they trade their souls for effectiveness within dysfunction. For all our struggles, we are much better off. I know how hard it is to reject it, so I can appreciate your rare commitment to what's right.

>>512747162
bullshit
post the web site of a single bar that charges ~$80 for a glass of "low-shelf whisky" or is the cab ride $80?

>>512733284
>>512736511
>boomer minimum wage in the 70s was 141 dollars per hour
This is correct. It's more difficult to decipher because the quality of goods and manufacturing that we are used to now is also so insanely worse and cost cutting.

>>512747312
~$18 for a glass isnt rare, excluding tip

>>512743629
His kids will get million dollar trust funds each when they turn 18

>>512736147
>In 1970, the average cost of a house hovered around $27,000
adjusted for inflation $27,000 is $230,400 in 2025
>The median home sales price in the United States is $410,800 as of the second quarter of 2025. The average home sales price is $512,800.

>>512735567
How old were you when you divorced?

>>512733180 (OP)
yep

>>512747162
>In 1972, taxi fares in major US cities like Atlanta, Orlando, Minneapolis, and Denver were around $26 to $28 for typical trips, according to Schaller Consulting.
>In 1972, a glass of whiskey in a US bar would likely have cost between $0.50 and $1.50,
>In 1972, a bag of nuts would likely have cost between $0.50 and $1.00, according to a price comparison of everyday items.
30 bucks, bucko

Enjoy being poor, kids. You deserve it. You're complicit in the downfall of society right now so don't be jealous I lived through the greatest part of it and prospered. Put all your money on meme coins and funding Nick Fuentes tranny habit.

>>512733180 (OP)
I graduated high school in 2006, just in time for the Great Recession in 2007 and the 2008 financial crisis.

>>512733280
WW2 veterans were some of the biggest ladder pullers of all time and the boomers got to fight over the leftovers they enjoyed. Millennials will fight over the tendons on the bones of the greates generations feast.

>>512748080
People born in the 80s have had the wildest fucking lives; grow up in the old world, get to live through all the degredations of the new world

>>512747185
In personal experience money conditioned my environment, other people also get affected by money , creates terrible relations in the workplace, if you are born in lower class it also affects most of things around you, the suburb I was living was riddled with drugs and pitty crime , you either adapt and become the suburb or you isolate yourself and escape to the fancy parts of a bigger city with nice parks and nice housing areas 1 hour or more away from your home just for the sake of not dealing with the bullshit around you.
But to blend in different areas you need moey and time , If I choose a job in a bigger city more than 1 hour away from the suburb , my times becomes limited eveyday I had to return home tired from work ot having much time and the wage was always of a poor person basically , the cool people i the big city had time and the money I did not had it and it made it harder to have a more chill life .

I mean I did go out and stuff but it was with work peers I mea the few there were actually cool, cause most were douches. But still we did not had much time , most of times we would hang out after work basically for a couple hours but tired and already thiking shit I have 1 hour train travel waiting and have to wake up early to wage slave for peanuts .

>>512748138
I miss the old world so fucking bad. It's like we died at some point and were sent straight to Hell.

>>512735480
>lol

picrel

>>512748138
>>512748195
Yeah I'm just barely old enough to remember bits and pieces from the old world. My entire life, I've had this sense that things are only getting continually worse, fundamentally. I wish we could go back to the old world. I wish for that so badly. But sadly it would just lead us back here again.

>>512735747
>80s was super sunshine for like half of Gen X and was nightmare fuel for the other half.
>yeah, the losers

Present in any cohort. If you were born a boomer you picked crops with the beaners.

>>512735567
You don't have to let renters speak that way to you anon.

>>512748298
>Yeah I'm just barely old enough to remember bits and pieces from the old world
90s kid
Trust me, its better, you don't really know what was yanked out from underneath you and you had to adjust before adulthood.
The youngest kid of the 80s would have been a teenager by the time it started to turn (2002)

>>512748298
I think no matter how bad it gets we're not supposed to kill ourselves. Like all of this is some big shit test and if you kill yourself then you fail.

>>512747770
>In 1972, taxi fares in major US cities like Atlanta, Orlando, Minneapolis, and Denver were around $26 to $28 for typical trips, according to Schaller Consulting.
thats what the price would be in 2025 dollars after inflation
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/09/archives/taxi-industry-asks-75-rate-increase.html

>>512736799
>pretty much all this

Factories started closing early 90s. All opportunities to learn & advance went with them. NAFTA then bringing China online croaked it.

>>512744052
I had no success with job searches and interviews until I started drinking occasionally. It just made me more practical and down to earth when sober. Haven't drunk since but I'm convinced it helped.

Ahh poor you. It’s king arthurs fault he had a castle and a magic sword. Not politicians, elite ultrarich, msm and their mass formation children of satan loonies.
Waaagh! Were’s my magic sword lady of the lake you racist biiitch!

>>512747227
Take care and stay safe, not eveything is horrible, we just know deep down that this world sucks and it could be 1000 times better

It's not life that sucks, it's the human system that is trash and I dare to say primitive and backwards

>>512738661

Where I live nearly all who can do that are bankers or on state payroll.

Gen x is getting the pillow like the rest.

>>512748715
>those who know claim all the gibs they can
Who wood have thought
>t. gibs enjoyer

>>512748487
Ok, I specified 5 miles
2025
>Taxi fares in the US vary significantly by city, but a typical 5-mile ride could range from $8 to $19
>In 1972, the price for a 5-mile taxi ride in the USA would likely have been between $1.50 and $3.50, plus a base fare which typically ranged from $2 to $5.
Whiskey in 2025
>A glass of whiskey in a bar in the US in 2025 will likely cost between $8 and $15 for a standard 1.5-ounce pour
So $28 in 2025 and $10 in 1972
I know that a dollar was worth 10x more in 1970 so the $10 price in 1972 is probably to high, it's more like $3 then and $30 now, but not $1.60 then and $93 now.

Boomers are just people who stared and got brainwashed.
They knew the future would be shiitty but that’s forever away. Are you striving to assist 2065 right now? Nope.
Death penalty for politicians
All migrants leave or go on the chain gang in the salt mine
Judaism illegal
Media called prostitutes officially
Loons back in looney asylums
Bankers & elites death penalty
There i fixed it all. Strangle glowies and ngo parasites publically too. Done,

>>512733180 (OP)
>Millenials and zoomers have nothing

This is pretty much the reason why I gave up and don't care.

>>512749043
>Boomers are just people who stared and got brainwashed.
No they were given a fair deal.
>government does there regular bullshit
And they were able to work as a fuckin garbageman in an ethno-state and to have a wife, 2 cars, 3 kids and pay their house off in 4 years. That was the deal 50 years ago and it was a great one. Contract has ended and don't blame boom boys for taking advantage of the post WW2 most prosperous economy in Human History.
>boom niggers are WAY more far right than any zoomer faggot by fields

>>512749043
I don't blame boomers for what they left. I blame the ones all over the place who still think everything's the same and complaining is just eNtiTLeMeNt

>>512749100
I only have left the microplastics in my brain but at least I'm not vaxxed

Clown world gonna clown

https://youtu.be/zRP6ZNCB14I?list=RDzRP6ZNCB14I

>>512738354
It’s actually wild how much we are being fucked, in a non parasitic society literally anybody that could even work 20 hrs a week would have enough to enjoy a upper middle class life style by todays standards

>>512749233
>And they were able to work as a fuckin garbageman in an ethno-state and to have a wife, 2 cars, 3 kids and pay their house off in 4 years. That was the deal 50 years ago and it was a great one.
And it changed at the same time SSSR fell apart

>>512746082
>$1.60 in 1970 is in no way equal to $65 bucks today. No way.
You're right anon, as $1.60 is $13.30 today. The minimum wage should at least keep up with inflation, and it should be in the $13-15/hr range. While I detest the Boomers I'd rather my criticisms be based upon the truth, and there's no way today's minimum wage should be anywhere near $65.

>>512749537
>Yugoslavia
Anon, you are 30 years late to this party

>>512749604
Here the minimum wage is 18,15 USD.

>>512749794
The only real Dutch all live in S.A now though. I fly KLM when I travel because the whore stewardesses serve me for my 6 hours flight. If you are actual dutch, explain to me why your women are such fuckin rude, disgusting cunts.

>>512749931
It's more likely you're overly sensitive.

>>512749794
Do you think that's appropriate, or does it lead to inflation? While I've been to Belgium, which was expensive, I've never been to the Netherlands, and my impression is that it is an expensive country to live.

>>512749985
I've flown us,german,uk even fuckin jeet airlines. The bitches working on the flights were all decent, klm is the only airline with absolute whores working it, also amsterdam is a dump. fuckin nigger lovers

>>512733180 (OP)
Idk I feel like it's a golden age in the US.

Order of the golden dawn

>>512750054
Well, I'm pretty sure the wages just don't keep up with the amount of money that's being printed by the EU. As long as we're in a union with south europe our money will become increasingly worthless. So it's more of a correction for the higher prices. I think it's a good wage for unskilled labor that allows you to live a normal life.

Our prices are higher than in the surrounding countries, but I think the taxes on fuel and energy and the environmental rules that suffocate our industry are the main cause.

>>512735456
He's right though. Boomers kicked their gen x kids out until dinner time because they still had social areas/activities not niggered up that silent gen still maintained, and boomers were hedonistic niggers who kicked the kids out so they could have uninterrupted affairs and gossip sessions with their own friends.
>malls
>roller rinks
>arcades
>dance halls
>non-church affiliated youth groups that weren't full of diddlers
>church affiliated youth groups that weren't full of diddlers.
>movie theaters you could afford to attend on allowance money
>diners, icecream shops, etc.
>bike rides
>municipal sports parks(that boomers sold off to corporations as soon as they took power from silents)
>fully kitted out parks (that got dismantled by boomers by the time zoomers were old enough to use them because some jew said jungle gyms were unsafe, and billybob boomer in the parks department needed the equivalent of a bank attendant's pay to drive a pickup truck around collecting garbage from the parks bins, or ride around on a rideon mower.)
>carnivals and circuises still toured the nation from town to town and kids could go in unattended with allowance money

>>512750247
Our country basically is an overgrown city with artificial nature, but our government and the EU pretend it's a nature reserve.

>>512750247
>As long as we're in a union with south europe our money will become increasingly worthless.
You guys sure do subsidize the lazy and corrupt Med countries, LOL. Godspeed to you and your farmers.

>>512750364
The problem is you can't have a monetary policy that suits north and south europe. We want to protect the value of our savings, and they want to stimulate their economies through increasing amounts of debts. But if the EU caters to north europe, then the south will get an economic crisis. While if they cater to the south, we just lose our savings. So from the perspective of Brussels its better that everyone goes into debt, so that they can have one monetary policy that fits all countries. Which is why they are so willing to waste money on green energy, and now weapons apparently. So they can harmonize the policies of all countries.

>>512735735
it's not an item per item basis, it's an average of all aspects added together, individual items are still decent prices, while others have gone up hundreds of %
My gen x father could go to the movie theater, get TWO tickets to a movie, a drink, and snacks for less than a buck. Last time I went to the movies was in 2022 and a ticket alone cost me almost $20, if I'd bought a drink and popcorn that would have been another $25+ on top, before taxes.
>adults in the 70's spent less than $100 a month to rent a decent place
>that same apartment goes for over $2000/m now.
>groceries and neccessities for a family of 4 in the 70's: less than $30 for the entire month
>groceries and neccessities for a family of 4 in 2022, over $300/m

>>512742788

Checked

All the nostalgia bait in media the past 15 years making sense now? Remember that Boomers grew up breathing lead fumes for decades and now the lead is causing dementia and anger issues in them.

>>512750174
lmao?
Golden what?
You are in sad awakening

The closer you got from a golde age was probably like in this video
https://youtu.be/VEqz1Zg5gzM?list=RDVEqz1Zg5gzM

It's gone and you will never see it again , unless you actually like the times we are living now .

The world today is a vapid nightmare and hardly will be better in the next 20 years , you are probably goa face massive tribulations, water wars , more global conflicts, shit is barely starting and population is more npc than ever

Why has the cost of goods and services (Including things like housing) outpacing wages and inflation? You'd think we would've become more efficient in making these things, not worse.

>>512733180 (OP)
Never forget what they took from us.

>>512734078
>Everyone is fed up with this bullshit economy
Damn fucking right
I am seriously thinking of offing some motherfuckers in a certain corporate office that has done me very dirty. I want them all dead. And if I'm thinking it now, then I know for sure that millions of other people are too in the US, because whatever one person thinks, that isn't super-specific to their lives, is necessarily nothing unique or even that uncommon.

>>512750738
1969 to 1970 are my favorite years for cars. The biggest block engines ever commercially produced for mass sales were made at that time (like the Ford 460), and just a couple years later, beginning in 1971, new government regulations required automakers to weaken these giant engines to cut pollution and save gas.
We will never have such times again.
I suspect that, also, the government just wanted to tame the population by hemming people in in every way, even their driving. No more muscle cars, no siree bob! You goys have to be domesticated and behave.

>>512748364
>if you were a boomer you picked crops with the beaners
No they didn't, silents hated spics more than they hated niggers, mass hiring illegal spics was almost entirely jewish/boomer phenomenon.bAlso, boomers made almost the exact same amount hourly that they're STILL paying crop pickers today now that they own the farms.

>>512751455
I've talked to boomer farmers about this at length, they literally brag about still offering the same farm labour wages their parents paid them because they lobbied for agri labour to be exempt from minimim wage..

>>512751753
My source is having boomer farmers in the family who constantly bitched millenials wouldn't do field work. They would grumble and bitch about entitlement, then tell me to fuck off when I pointed out a millenial would make more in one 4 hour mcdonalds shift than they would make in a month of working boomer fields, and wouldn't have to deal with them slave driving or randomly firing them in a tantrum

>>512736820
>>512736143
unreal

>>512747365
>>512747365
so a $72 for the ride?
seems excessive
drink locally, maybe

>>512752111
Like shit, by the time my oarents drove me out to the field, went back home, then came back out to pick me up and drive me home they would have spent more on the gas than I would've made for the days labour.

Boomers are completely out of touch niggers.

>>512738354
True.
We dont hate boomers hard enough

>>512746082
Losers love to sensationalize the lives that Boomers had when in reality, Millennials had an even easier path to generating wealth in their 20s and 30s.

>>512753480
>blah blah blah
>bold face lying about millenials having it better while showing us the math was many multiples worse than their upbriging
We had 3 financial crisis' kneecap us in a row, and boomers had their college/university completely paid for, you lying fucking cunt.

But, thanks for proving my point that boomers are completely out of touch niggers.

>>512733180 (OP)
It is time for a revolution

>>512733180 (OP)
>It can’t keep going on like this

the qvetching will continue until goy morale imrpoves

dumb fucks

>>512754649
>Muh CPI
Retarded gullible nigger

>>512753480
Millenials had to go all-in on in crypto and video card stocks with their first paycheck out of college in order to see the kind of returns that boomers got for seeing an ad in the newspaper and then showing up at the factory on the designated sunday afternoon to get hired on the spot.

>>512754384
>in middle school when dot com bubble hit
>had no savings when housing crash hit
>covid "crash" lasted a month, then the government printed money, inflating stocks/crypto/real estate

Uh huh. You're definitely not just a loser of your generation.

>>512754691
the trick is to get rid of the bubble jew, not to join him in his stupid game of monopoly.
DEATH TO ALL JEWS

>>512754649
Shut the fuck up you stupid cunt

>>512755026
>loser
All boomers have is name calling.
In the 70s a "loser" could work a dead end job and afford a three bedroom house, two cars and a family. You're angry you're being called out on your degeneracy and lack of a conscience. You want to clap back but you can't, so you call names like the mental child you are.

>>512755026
>doubles down on being a disingenuous, duplicious, gaslighting cunt
Shut the fuck up retard.
>dotcom bubble
I was in elementary school when that hit, I'm in my mid 30's now, I couldn't have possibly cashed in on that one if I wanted to.
>housing crash
Hard to have savings when I was barely getting paid enough to make rent despite two jobs AND a side gig repairing electronics and computers. I was also still at the end of highschool for that one so I didn't have the capital to do anything with it. Houing also didn't crash here like it did in the states because boomer politicians kicked the can down the road to protect their own finances.
>covid
Yeah covid inflated the shit out of absolutely everything except wages and I didn't have the capital to make anything of it because I was STILL barely making enough to cover rent despite making well over minimum wage, and making back 20%+ on my small crypto investmments, those gains were devoured by literally everything inflating anywhere from 30% to 400%. Go be a nigger somewhere else.

>>512735079
Could easily get almost any job. My dad dropped out of high school when he was 17, walked into his local fire station, asked for a job, and they hired him on the spot.

He was a fire chief of a suburban fire department by the time he was in his 40s making like $180k/year (he did a lot of overtime). He was in charge of the hiring at his department and he told me he wouldn't even look at someone's application unless they had a four year fire science degree and five years of experience.

Then via boomer nepotism magic, one of his firefighter buddies offered him a job in the offshore oil industry as a safety compliance officer. No experience in the industry, still no education, etc... He retired from firefighting and took that job... They paid him $50k/month (he worked on a one month on one month off schedule, so $250k/ear). His job was to basically sit in an office on drill rigs watching TV, occasionally handing out acetaminophen to people with headaches, and rarely apply tourniquets and splints to people in accidents until a helicopter could fly out and evacuate them.

>>512750626
A dollar was worth 10x more in the 1970, what you listed is in that range except rent which is 20x times more if you're correct but 93 dollars is ca 60x more than 1.6

>>512735084
GenX here. I remember making bank at $3.35 an hour in 1982. Barely paid for gas for my Chevelle SS at the time.

>>512755769
Reminds me of that boomer septic work copypasta that floats around from time to time.
>be billy bob boomer
>decide to get into septic work the day you finish/drop out of highschool
>what you needed to do the job: A shovel, a pickup truck, a prefab tank, and a couple hand tools to connect the pipes to the tank
>what a millenial would have needed to get into septic work at the same age: a highschool diploma, a 5+ year plumbing course and license, a 3+ year unpaid apprenticeship under a licensed plumber, a pickup truck(50k+) a license and training to use a backhoe, a backhoe, environmental impact certifications and licensing and inspections, a larger truck that can transport the backhoe between job sites, insurance, tools, PPE, etc.

>>512756091
>a 3+ year unpaid apprenticeship
never heard of this in Canada, you referring to the US?

Are americans still confused about the fact after ww2 americas gdp equaled the rest of the world, but rest of the world started producing goods and services after 70's too so now you cant just work 1h a week in usa and make more money than a full time worked in china

>>512754426
What kind of a revolution

There is no point in continuing humanity if this is the best we can do. There are non-supernatural lifeforms in the universe who are more intelligent than us

>>512756153
Nope, my hometown region/county(onterrible) was littered with trade shops only offering unpaid internships/apprenticeships because there was already a surplus of older millenials and gen x looking for a change in industry because they were all getting pushed out of factories.

>>512756061
>Was old enough to drive in 1982
You're a boomer my dude

>>512735306
>latchkey generation
I hate that fucking term. No wonder they hate us.

>>512756269
1966
16 in 1982
GenX: 1965 -1981
Not a boomer

>>512756485
>I'm technically Gen X because I was born 1 year after Boomers
Kek do you seriously think that you're the same generation as a guy born in 1978 but not the same generation as a guy born in 1965 ?
You have more friends that are born in 1965 than 1978 Kek, BOOMER

>>512756359
I was also a latchkey kid

>>512756243
>>512756153
it was a really bad time for my home town in general, almost the entire economy was factories, then practically overnight we went from our largest regional employer being a tie between over a dozen factories, to being the local walmart.

>>512756680
Whatever. Boomers: 1945 - 1964. Is being so dumb painful?

>>512756680
fair point: the Zoomers who are 22+ are VERY different than the 20-and-under Zoomers; the older ones are basically Millennials, sadly
>t,aroundthemallday

>>512734603
Nothing in the OP hints at purchasing power. You're grasping.

>>512734784
Yr mostly right but boomers have some responsibility. They couldve stopped a lot of the nonsense going on now. The generational shit stirring is just to get us to fight each other while they fuck us even harder and try to grab as much of the boomer wealth as possible as they die off

>>512734079
>$13.30
all these places have higher minimum wage than that
Rhode Island
Vermont
DC
Oregon
Nebraska
Maine
Massachusetts
Alaska
Arizona
California
New York
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois

>>512758620
>The generational shit stirring is just to get us to fight each other while they fuck us even harder and try to grab as much of the boomer wealth as possible as they die off
Yes
>boomers have some responsibility. They couldve stopped a lot of the nonsense
then, by your logic, Gen X and Millennials should have reversed a lot of that stuff
but you didn't and the boomers didn't

maybe regular people need to stop blaming other regular people, and take a look at who is actually responsible, who is actually benefitting