—u/Comfortable-State134 “[My] grandfather was a farm boy who didn’t go to college. Started as a department store stock boy, and was the VP of a multi-state franchise by the time he retired, which he was able to do early. This could never ever happen today.” —u/prettyminotaur
—u/hyperfat
“I think about this a lot. Both my sets of grandparents were very, very working class, but they still owned their homes. My dad’s parents lived on my granddad’s factory paycheck and grandma didn’t work. Meanwhile, mum’s parents both worked (Nana was a cleaner at the high school, and granddad drove taxis) and they could afford a lovely semi-detached house and holidays to France in the summer. Like, what was the bar for ’not working hard enough’ back then? I work two full-time jobs and I’m trying to get my master’s degree while also making peace with the fact that I’m getting too old to start a family and I’ll never own a home because it’s too expensive.” —u/DreyaNova The economy is the worst I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how people do it, especially people with kids. Ridiculous medical costs, college tuition, and skyrocketing housing costs, rapidly growing homeless population, and 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with no savings. Some people want to virtue signal and some are simply blind to the fact that the reality they grew up in no longer exists." —u/banjelina
