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I worked with an old timer who hated that young kids got hired with vacations and days off and high pay. He'd always say back when he started working he was treated like a slave and now kids are just handed everything he earned!
I always got the feeling he didn't want to admit he believed in a lie and was exploited. There's no way I could have demanded fair treatment! I needed to suffer! Everyone needs to suffer!
Old boomer I worked with was pissed that new hires get paid $60k and he was lucky he was making like $4 an hour at his first real job in like 1970s and NEVER COMPLAINED.
And I called out that he's complaining right now and he just made a hissy fit and left.
There was an older gop congressman complaining about the proposed $15/hr minimum wage, saying when he was young he made $4/hr and it was plenty. Someone did the math and his $4/hr was equivalent to $26/hr now.
If your coworker was making $4/hr in 1970, he was making the equivalent of $32/hr in 2024, or roughly 66k/year. He should probably shut the fuck up about starting 6k/year above what kids do 50 years later.