It's stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren't involved in Vietnam. No, I'm not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.
Y'all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.
As long as you're white
When you are white the sky is the limit. When you are not the limits the sky. -Chris Rock
That's... Dying at 54 years of age?
Yes please
and the problem is where? I'm here for a good time not a long time
Made me think of this Irish toast:
"Here's to a long life, and a merry one
A quick death, and an easy one
A pretty girl, and an honest one
A cold beer - and another one"
Did he fucking stutter
Dying at 54 means you can also live in the bliss of eating red meat, drinking, and ripping cigarettes every day after your 20s.
This.
You can push it back to 1944 if you're in the US, the war wouldn't have impacted you much. You could even push it back to 1940, but there may be some depression era nutrition issues.
That bumps 2001 up to 57. Honestly go for a few more years and retire before '08 and die in 2019 before covid at age 75
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.
The ideal life is dying when you're only 54? That's pretty bleak!
Or you could’ve been sent to Vietnam…
Not as a Canadian
Hey bud you wanna go out for a rip?
We all live in a simulation
And nah but I'm down to go out for a scoff me buddy!
(Secret Newfie)
Goin out for a rip are ya bud?
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.
Change the last bit to
Retire in 2001 with a inflation linked final salary pension scheme.
Yeah, you'll still have a good 20 years to enjoy retirement with your portfolio, then peace out before the pandemic.
The ideal life is to be born a multi-millionaire, then earn billions by exploiting workers
I always thought I would have made a good trust fund baby.
could you live with yourself though?
If I was born rich, I'd probably have no empathy either.
How are you supposed to develop it?
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.
Have your house torn down for a highway two years after buying it maybe?
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
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.
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.
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.
Fyi $650 in 1976 is about $3600-3700 adjusted for inflation.
For some my uncle and my dad did these things but also died prematurely from health complications related to Vietnam
They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn't care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer". Most occur in U.S. civilian airports, usually San Francisco International, as GIs returned from the war zone in their uniforms.
No unambiguous documented incident of this behavior has ever surfaced, despite repeated and concerted efforts to uncover them.
Never heard an old black man say "I wish things were like they were back in the 50s."
Which all would be lovely and true if they were American.
They're not.
It's almost like countries other than the United States exist...
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!
I am so tired of people presuming that ~~US's economic history is somehow universal.~~ all countries have first world economy of western hemisphere, more specifically, the anglosphere. Boy do I love cultural hegemony.
So you wouldn't even live to be 60?
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.
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