The ideal life is to be born a multi-millionaire, then earn billions by exploiting workers
I am so tired of people presuming that US's economic history is somehow universal.
The ideal life is dying when you're only 54? That's pretty bleak!
Longer than I expect to live
But probably true!
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
Also literally any day could be the one the Bomb dropped. It's easy to forget how close we came, or how fucking terrifying it was that you had no way of knowing.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with being born after the draft became less used and I'm now old enough to not qualify for the draft anymore. Life is pretty good.
As long as you're white
And a man.
And lived in US
And cishet
And secretly homosexual
And resemble a wasp
When you are white the sky is the limit. When you are not the limits the sky. -Chris Rock
Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.
And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.
This is great, as reply and shitty, as content. made my day and ruined my evening.
For some my uncle and my dad did these things but also died prematurely from health complications related to Vietnam
Deserved it
Oh look, it's a tankie fuckwit! How does it feel to be a scurge on society, your family, and to have dropped out of primary school?
It feels great, thanks for asking! I love holding viewpoints that are "dangerous" but liberals agree with 4 years later (and pretend they held all along)
My dad bought about a third of an acre of waterfront property in the 80s with a small cottage on it that we added to. He paid something like $50,000. Guess what a small waterfront property is worth now?
No one gonna bite? Ok, I'll go first... One million dollars!
That's... Dying at 54 years of age?
Dying at 54 means you can also live in the bliss of eating red meat, drinking, and ripping cigarettes every day after your 20s.
Yes please
So you wouldn't even live to be 60?
Not specific enough. Going by typical evil genie rules you'd be born in 47', but be a poc in like Alabama or Oklahoma. Just in time to get drafted to fight in Vietnam and then have to fight for civil rights at home.
My dad bought his house for $650 in 1976, had it moved from the mill village where it was for $2000 and has lived in it on land he was given for 50 years. Its current value is over $225k.
He offered to sell me a quarter acre for $50k.
Change the last bit to
Retire in 2001 with a inflation linked final salary pension scheme.
My dad was born in 1947. He died a year ago. Lived in my basement for 3 years toward the end, we converted it to a "in-law" suite. Probably spent most of his money on medical bills though because he had an accident that paralyzed half his body.
Anyhow he worked the same job his entire life only worked his way up to middle management at a factory. Prided himself in slacking off his entire career and still did better than I do now and I have to work much harder and have my spouse be employed to pull in what he did alone half-assing it.
So it was different for sure, middle-class was easily achieved if you were a white male. I'd almost say if you were poor you just got very unlucky, were a single mom, or a minority. If you were a white male, you'd really have to be dealt a bad hand in life to not be middle-class.
My grandfather picked tomatoes to eventually buy his house in cash.
He was a hard worker, but damn, imagine buying a house in cash.
Dude went on to have like 10 kids and a good standard of living.
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