Boomers could afford college on a part time minimum wage job. Now a full time job can't afford college.
Boomers lived in an era where it was still normal for one parent working a full time job could support an entire family. Now we live in an era where most people working full time jobs can't afford to live alone.
Between jobs being sent to foreign countries, illegal immigrants and H1Bs being imported wholesale because it's cheaper than hiring American citizens, and AI taking jobs most of the high paying jobs are gone. There's a few left but nowhere near enough to go around.
Back in their hayday boomers walked into a place wearing a suit. Hand them a resume and give a firm handshake and you've got a job. That's the bullshit advice they keep giving. Today if you walk into a place with a resume in hand they tell you that you have to apply online. You apply to 30 places in a week. You get 3 rejections and the rest ghost you. You finally get an interview over zoom and they don't even show up for it. You get a few interviews and they say they'll be in touch but they ghost you. One company puts you through 3 rounds of interviews then hands the job to someone else. They were never going to hire you. The job was promised to someone else but they had to do the interview process as a formality. This process continues for several months until you finally get a job offer from someone who pays less than other companies doing the same work and expects you to forego legally required things like dedicated lunch breaks.
Then you have the cost of housing. Even after you account for inflation it's multiple times more expensive. Case and point the house I grew up in sold for $80k back in the 90's. Adjusted for inflation that would be $170k today. The exact same house sold for just under $400k and interest rates are significantly higher now. Now most dual income households can't afford a mortgage.
Healthcare is unaffordable, cars are unaffordable, the basic necessities that boomers took for granted are practically luxury items for today's workforce. Gas is a huge expense, groceries, utilities, you get the point.
The cost of living makes it almost impossible to save up for retirement and the way SS is being managed it won't be around when it's our turn.
Yes, doordash is fucking stupid. People who rely on it are fucking idiots, but I'm tired of these out of touch fags blaming the struggle solely on financial irresponsibility. Old people bitch about everything being so expensive because they're on a fixed income but they don't realize that the situation for the rest of us isn't THAT much better.
Casual reminder that this ad from 1996 was supposed to sound far-fetched while targeting boomers as they were starting to think about actually retiring at 65.
More like they created the famous torment nexus from the beloved book Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
