Old Economy Steven.
And doesn’t anybody dare tell me that this wasn’t how it used to be. I grew up in a time when my parents supported us on high school diplomas and by working their way up from entry level positions and minimum wage. We were well off enough at one point that my dad could buy random cars and trucks and scrap them for parts or build derby cars out of them.
We had a house, three cars, two dogs, a three-car-garage, new appliances, could afford new carpet, new floors, all that jazz. All without college degrees and having worked their way up from the bottom.
I remember my dad telling me that he bought his first car (a fucking Cadillac) by working minimum wage for one summer.
This country’s economy is so fucked and backwards now. With the all the technologies that make life easier than it once was, the free access to knowledge via the internet, the relative availability of higher education; then knowing that I will be straddled with student loan debt for who the fuck knows how long, because I’ll need two years experience to get an entry-level position that will earn me less than $30,000 a year is upsetting, insulting, and enraging.
End of today’s second rant.