Boomers didn’t go out to lunch, cause they had no money, correct, but they could pay bills…
My Dad worked in a grocery store in high school, when he graduated he had to move out but he got a department manger job at that store, paid $6.25 an hour. The year was 1968, he could afford shared rent with a roommate, but food/clothes, buy a car (Ford Pinto), go to college (paid for with cash and took 6 years) but also went out to eat some, skied in the winter, went to concerts (always trying to find the cheap way but went).
I had a similar high school job, and when I graduated got a similar promotion to a sub manager role, it was 2003 and I was paid $7.25 an hour.
My Dad talked about how he could do things, but but 35 years later I was making $1 more an hour then he was, but, things are much more expensive, he realized when I started working l, but most boomers have not caught up, yeah, every generation has is bad, but I can show the math how we were cheated. And Lord help the current kids
My parents do this kind of things to me as a kid all the time 30 years ago, except I was the kid who could handle it, my brother couldn’t. I still resent my parents for it, you avoiding “drama” and not wanting to tell the problem child that “well you can’t handle this or stop doing it and she can” is not being an adult or teaching either of the kids about responsibility. You are taking the lazy liberal way as a parent, you don’t want to teach so everyone gets punished. Kids remember
@Cernovich My Grandma passed, Grandpa remarried quickly (he was successful) he passed first, a few years later she passed, everything “they” had went to her kids, my mom and her brothers got almost nothing. You are spot on with this take
@RobertMSterling@Cernovich Managed a Hertz Location branch 2006-2010, none of this is new. Over booking is the standard and the only way to make any money (razor thin margins) you need 95% utilization to make money when your inventory is expensive depreciating assets. Not sure how you fix it.