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.
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?
Im amazed that ever worked. If you forcibly tore my house down to build a road, you'd find that that road had a tendency to explode... every week or so
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.
So you wouldn't even live to be 60?
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.
Sounds like pops is needing slot machine money.
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?
Hilarious.
And nah I'm more newfie. Goin out fer a scoff me buddy
Hey b’y. How’s ya gettin’ on? Goin’ down fer a jigs dinner now da once
ELLO ME DUCKY! O you knows it, dis is it. Luh, save me a couple spuds der wouldya? Gotta get some grub, eh der b'y?
Americans trying to comprehend people living outside their country except for when they're killing them.
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.
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.
Life for seniors is ok. About to get a tax break on SS benefits. Would be 78 this year. Possible to get another 12 years of senior benefits. Trump was born that year, so things can work out past 2001.
You have to be at least middle class and "white"/seen as the dominant demographic for this to work out. Just like every other place and time period.
middle class constraint can be relaxed for hunter-gatherer societies.
Could one feasibly claim that the less hunter-gatherer we are, the less egalitarian we are, societally?
You forgot the part where you get to call young people lazy
The bio of old television personalities is always that they took a wrong turn into the BBC reception and got hired on the spot.
I mean okay but this person would've been a young adult during the Vietnam war and the war on drugs and died at 53 to avoid the war on terror.
Impress them with a firm handshake.
This is basically my dad
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