it is so cool that this place was basically a medieval fantasy larp by king ludwig ii. building it bankrupted the kingdom of bavaria's royal treasury so bad that his ministers declared him insane and drowned him in a lake and made it look like a suicide (allegedly)
BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."
YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."
BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"
YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."
BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."
YOU: "That's the whole point."
BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."
YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."
BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."
YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."
BOOMER: "That was normal back then."
YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."
BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"
YOU: "I want what was normal."
BOOMER: *silent*
You didn't outwork us.
You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.
In Japan, if you use a word wrong, someone will quietly teach you the correct one.
In Texas, I thanked a mechanic by saying "you are a good man of the trucks."
He did not correct me. He put it on his voicemail.
"You've reached Ray. Good man of the trucks."
His son answers the phone that way now.