1974 average starting salary was $11,111, equivalent of $77,031 today
todays average starting salary of $68,873, equivalent of $9,934 in 1974
1974 average house cost was $36,050, equivalent to $249,931 today
todays average house cost is $393,895
im pretty sure you can make 36k on 11k a year faster than you can make 393k on 68k a year, hell even faster than you can make 249k if that price didnt also go up
still a bitch but now youve proven youre a dumb bitch
@Luke_Alans@DoDeportations the young white male turnout for voting is second to young white female and outranked every other group except for latinas in 2020, and turnout for youth entirely has been much higher than in the previous decades as well, so im not sure what are you talking about?
@ContraryMaryNJ@DoDeportations "boomers were making tiny salaries in 1974"
bitch are you for real? the federal minimum wage was $2.00/hr in 1974, equivalent to $13.87 today, whereas the federal minimum wage today is $7.25/hr, equivalent to $1.05/hr in 1974
do YOU understand inflation?
@themarian_bro@DoDeportations just off the top of my head:
means testing for social security retirement benefits
means testing for medicaid
means testing for the myriad tax relief programs exclusively for seniors (or abolish altogether)
amend the Fair Housing Act to remove the 55+ community exemptions
@JedditeMk4@DoDeportations "WE DONT WANT SOCIALISM IN AMERICA!!!!!! unless its redistributing money from young working americans and giving it to retirees that havent contributed anything to society in 20 years, in which case thats not socialism, because THATS MY MONEY!!!!!!!!!!"
@SeriousSamIAm@DMravunac please for the love of god riddle me two questions
1. what style of kamikaze are we getting, and if its not the original style, why :(
2. will we get clawdovic back?????
@BlackNeonDreams@_alwilly@francis__wolf technology raises potential output but still requires people who design, install, maintain and operate it properly, which requires more skill, training and education
if it was just technology, then why does productivity also depend on knowledge, skills and experience
retard
brother be so fucking for real right now
the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, introduced by a republican, passed the republican majority house 414-4 and the republican senate 96-0, signed into law by bill clinton, was what made student loan debt undischargeable in bankruptcy
private student loans were still fully dischargeable in bankruptcy until the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which was introduced by a republican, passed the republican majority senate 74-25 and the republican majority house 302-126, and was signed into law by george w bush
biden voted yes on both but to obamas credit he voted no on the 2005 one
i dont like either of them but obama for once didnt do anything wrong here
huh wonder how they fixed the great inflation of the 1970s
oh, Paul Volcker raised interest rates to 20%, hey why dont we do that
wait, the US public debt-to-GDP was roughly 25% to 30% in 1979 and the feds interest payments remained manageable because total debt was low, but now its at over 120% and if they raised interest rates to anywhere near double-digit percentages today, the interest payments alone on the national debt would immediately consume the vast majority of federal tax revenues triggering a historical fiscal crisis and risking sovereign default?
jesus christ why would anyone go through that then set things up to happen again but even worse, they must have been one real stupid electorate back then and theyve voted ever since, wonder who those people are
reading this and finishing my apprenticeship in a few days realizing that theres nothing left in michigan
22 an hour just isnt doable and boeing offers 36 at the very lowest
i love this state but no one here wants to pay enough to live even if your work keeps their businesses alive
it is welfare you delusional boomer retard, read Supreme Court rulings on Helvering v. Davis and Flemming v. Nestor
and with social security being insolvent soon, imagine how everyone who still works feels about their money being taken by force with no promise of anything in the future
your $3000 a month that you don't need comes at the cost of everyone else, but who cares about that when you have no sense of community and a grossly overinflated sense of self worth?
@Reynhard_Jenkem@Cashisback05 anotha true kshatriya connoisseur
good luck in your hunt, a rare breed but one day we shall bleach the entire subcontinent and clean that entire gene pool
@MattJSchilling@jimmy_esq@grok i leave you with these three bangers of posts and will be following by example for the third one, i hope a haitian violates you in unspeakable ways in the nursing home you will be abandoned at 😊
@MattJSchilling@jimmy_esq@grok can you explain to this senile conceited boomer why restaurants charge reservations because i just cant seem to make him understand
"hello, id like to spend money at your business, please leave room for me at your business so i can spend money"
if you dont show up, you didnt buy anything and they lost potential profit from reserving room for someone who was rude enough not to show up
this is a concept thats more than "an hour and a half old", michelin star restaurants started doing it over 10 years ago
again, i know this may be hard to understand for someone who believes they're the main character of history and that the planet revolves around them, and this may all be rather disturbing to hear
@MattJSchilling@jimmy_esq well maybe its more a case of if you don't show up to the reservation you requested, you've made the restaurant lose money
i guess if you believe you're the main character in human history and that everyone else exists to serve you, other explanations must sound REALLY smart