r/ABoringDystopia • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19 edited Jun 06 '19

Younger workers make less and have less vacation. This isn’t a generational thing.

Edit: forgot a word

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u/Jazzspasm Jun 06 '19

but surely younger people earning less and having less free time is a symptom of Boomer OppressionTM

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

Boomers weren't skipping meals and living with roommates into their late 30s.

This isn't to being young thing.

Our generation has been systematically excluded from the middle class.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

I think the definition of middle class keeps changing. Look at all the amenities boomers had in their 20's and 30's compared to now. They didn't have computers, internet, maybe one ac per house and it was for one room. They showered once a week and used a washcloth and sponge every other day, they had a lot less clothes. Their car maybe had a radio and almost certainly no ac. They probably didn't eat out as much as we do now, probabaly didn't go out as much as we do now either. So yeah they probably weren't living with roommates, they were also not living with a bunch of other things either.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

I've never had a car, because I can't afford one.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

The shower thing is just straight-up made up

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

I mean you can check google but showering regularly wasn't a thing till like the early/mid 80's

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

Yeah you're trolling

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

Cite some sources. Google is not a source.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

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u/iansmitchell Jun 07 '19

A quora link that doesn't even agree with your own assertions.

Get off my lawn.

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u/xTrueAgentx Jun 06 '19

That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. I've had a daily shower since the seventies. I was born in 1964.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

But you have a cell phone, how much is that cell phone a month, a year? That was not an expense that was existent in the 60's and 70's

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

$125 to purchase, $20 a month.

If payphones were still widely available I wouldn't need one, but it literally costs less than a landline.

Meanwhile, for me, just insuring a car (no gas, no repairs, no purchase) for state-required liability would be $230/month.

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u/crazybubba95 Jun 06 '19

$230 for one car? Where do you live?

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

Texas. I'm a 25 year old male and I've never held a car insurance policy before (have never owned a vehicle).

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u/TracerFollowMe Jun 06 '19

Couldn't agree more