>talking to my grandpa
>worked as a truck driver in the 50's delivering gasoline
>bought a brand new house, had 5 kids, wife didn't need to work, bought a new car every 3 years
>now a truck driver would make like $22/h, the house would be $650k, wife needs to work, raising 5 kids is impossible unless you live on welfare, you need a 7 year loan to buy a new car
When did it all go wrong?
>>74678261
He's lying. American workers have literally never had it so good. Just look at how many creature comforts the so-called "working poor" can afford these days?
>>74678261
Technology
>>74678369
bread and circuses
>Globalism
>Suppression of wages by the rich
>Corporatism
>Neoliberalism/Neoconservatism
>Moving to information based economy
There are lots of reasons, all of them shitty
>>74678261
Massive overpopulation. We need to share the same resources with more people. At the same time most wealth is concentrated in the upper classes.
Kind of obvious...
>650k house
get away from vancouver gweilo
>>74678369
Like what, refrigerators?
>>74678261
You have none o that because you are a looser. Yes, it could have been easy in your grandpa's times, but now your situation is more dificult, and you have to adapt to it and achieve what you want.
>>74679910
>650k house
>vancouver
kek, you can't even buy a crackhouse for less than 1 million
>>74680116
a nice sized house is like 150k breh, in upper-midwest towns. And yeah, there is plenty of work here for OTR drivers, who make 60-80k, more if they are ambitious /willing to sit on the road for 2 weeks a throw.
You can get all the shit your pappi did, but you will have to buy your vehicles used, do maintence on them, same as your house, etc.
>>74678261
Haven't you noticed that with each wave of feminism it gets worse?
>>74679781
I think the suburbia meme should've ended in to 70's, but it has been on life support via massive amounts of debt
Good times ended with the passage of the 1965 immigration bill allowing for mass third-world immigration and third-wave feminism allowing women to work. Essentially the labor pool expanded so wages went down.
>>74679922
Smartphones, starbucks, pot, internet all that good shit
>>74678261
650k for a house? Move to a less shitty area. In FL you can get like 30 acres of farm land with a 5 br 5 bath house for like 200k
>>74679988
>but now your situation is more dificult
it's not even that. there is a plethora of jobs today that didn't exist back then, opee was just a lazy bum who couldn't get decent education to work these high paying jobs
>>74680979
Wonder what that chart looks like with the last 10 years charted
>>74678261
Banking and financial deregulation.
>>74681743
nowadays you get your wage in extra shit like health care, pensions, etc
Which is something those boomers supported all along
They also didn't have all sorts of extra expenses we have today
Taxes weren't as high
house prices weren't ANYWHERE near as high
etc
>>74678261
Globalisation and dual income households.
They rigged the system to make more and more money for banks and giant corporations. The people that run these corporations know they're only going to live for so long, so they don't give a fuck what happens when they die - they just want money NOW. And so the entire system is a ponzi scheme, designed to make as much money as possible for the dudes at the top at the expense of the dudes below.
>"We can make larger profits by moving things to China? Do it."
>"But Dir, that will wreck the lives of lots of people here.
>"I'll be dead in thirty years, don't give a fuck, lol. #YOLO"
The next generation of elites reach these positions but they want the same as the greedy fucks before them. And so the system goes, bubble after bubble after bubble. It's like musical chairs.
>>74681392
It's cheaper to have a cellphone than it is a landline. And so much of everything we do is on the Internet, especially regarding communication that I wouldn't really consider it a luxury, especially given how many places require on-line applications regarding jobs.
Starbucks and Pot I agree with though.
>>74682623
So your saying import more migrants?
You can learn nearly anything on the internet. You have access to unlimited knowledge. You possess the world's largest library, film collection, art gallery, and music selection. You can talk to almost anyone in the world. You can self publish anything you create. You can find sexual partners, friends, and directions to anywhere on the planet. You can buy rare goods from the across the planet and have them shipped to your door step without even putting pants on. You have no idea what a big deal the internet is because you're so obsessed with a time that you didn't even live in.
Boo hoo, you can't buy some shitty box to pack you and all your spawn into. You only have the means to endlessly entertain yourself. How fucking tragic.
>>74678261
zionism-depopulation-one-world-government-prison-planet-mantain-humanity-under-500.000.000-agenda
>>74678261
Funny thing is those cars are using Tetraethyllead for preventing engine knocks but by products gas that induce insanity or death.
>>74678261
>over-regulate housing and building standarts
>trickle down economics to speculate on the housing market( creates inflation)
>boomer are ok with it since their assets are now practically made of gold
>repeat
...
>"we need to increase demand on this houses boys"
>*opens borders*
....
effect
>35 yo NEETs who are unable even to rent a flat; not even speaking about a family
>Social dysfunctionality
>low birth rate
>more agresive "capitalism" witch only tries to make everything more expensive with the power of the state
...
Crash with no survivors
....
>WW3
>housing prices are below 0
>repeat
>>74678369
Your kidding me right? The USA was the bees knees when you guys had a manufacturing based economy instead of a financial/intellectual property based economy.
Levels of comfort for low level of tax has literally never been achieved by any other nation on the same level as the usa.
>>74683342
You're right, anon. What's a family or a new generation where we have all this free porn?
>>74680979
>think the suburbia meme should've ended in to 70's
>it has been on life support
Can't stop white flight shoving niggers down people's throat. They are ready to pay all their money to migrate away.
>outsourcing
outsourcing lowers wages in the west and moves jobs overseas
>mass immigration
mass immigration lowers wages in the west and increases housing costs.
>credit
credit increases the costs of everything forcing you into debt to pay for housing
>welfare
welfare subsidizes non whites to shit out kids they can't afford
>austerity
austerity cuts public spending on useful infrastructure and public utilities that make life easier (roads, sewers, electricity, etc) notice how they never cut money for shitskin welfare but only for useful projects.
>>74685143
I agree
The suburbs only exist because of niggers
No one sane wants to live around them
>>74685538
>the housing market is keeping the white men down
this sounds turbo autistic but is true
>>74685454
Came here to basically post this.
>>74678369
>le refrigerators and TVs meme
Consumer spending was higher 60 years ago. Being possibly able to afford an extra TV isn't really much consolation when you need that money for food and bills and you have to live in a rundown communal apartment.
>>74681392
Coffee was available many decades ago. So was marijuana.
Internet and cell phones are more of a necessity than a luxury at this point.
>>74686982
>Consumer spending was higher 60 years ago
Complete bullshit. Source. Now.
>>74683342
In theory, yes.
In reality, where everyone lives, it's much more complex than that.
>>74685454
>le ebin welfare baby non-white hordes taking over Earth meme
>>74686438
Niggers attack you anywhere, anytime at random.
Move to Detroit if you disagree
>>74687521
>It's not true because I disagree with it
You realize why that's not a compelling argument right?
>>74685063
What good is a cheap house when you can teach yourself every skill known to man and achieve self actualization through consuming any philosophical or religious text of your choosing? The path to self improvement is now readily available to everyone, not just those who can afford higher education.
>>74687334
What is more complex? If you're somehow implying that one isn't capable of doing the things I listed through the internet, then you clearly haven't spent enough time on the internet.
>>74678261
it went wrong after 2 kids! stop making children you cant afford. niggers im mostly looking at you..
>>74685454
wtf man
>>74685454
>>74678261
Blame the Fed
