You can still get close to that today, even outside of tech. Tradespeople make plenty of dough. The problem though is survivorship bias: plenty of people in th

You can still get close to that today, even outside of tech. Tradespeople make plenty of dough. The problem though is survivorship bias: plenty of people in the '50s and '60s were poor, or didn't buy their own house, or etc... and likewise plenty of "kids today" are doing well.