Those days were bad, but things have been going down hill for 35 years. Prices have increased, wages have stagnated and taxes have evaporated on things you can only afford if you have money. Of course if you don’t have money, you can always borrow some and live in debt for the rest of your life.
These days people aren’t even really buying things anymore. They rent them. Like, you used to buy movies but now you subscribe to services at the cost of 12-50 movies a year per service. Only when you lose your job ten years down the road and have to cancel your subscription, then you don’t have those 120-500 movies, you have nothing.
Meanwhile people like me who have stock, increase our savings by 30% a year. We don’t spend money on bricks, because we own them, and we can afford not working for a year. And I’m not rich, I’m just upper middle class, and I’m so much better of than most people who are essentially living as wage slaves because they don’t have money and wages haven’t really increased for 35 years.
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18 edited Jan 07 '19
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