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Its not unrealistic .. western society has generally gotten less mature, not more. In my 20's I did stuff that none of the kids of today even consider feasible

• nradov 8y ago
  At age 23 Horatio Nelson was the captain of a warship leading hundreds of men in combat, and did a pretty fair job of it too.
  • thrower123 8y ago
    Nelson also had 10 years of experience in command at that point, starting as a midshipman at 13.
• syn0byte 8y ago
  In a lot of cases it simply isn't feasible today. Remember; a Denny's waitress in 1980 has as much or more spending power than the medium salary with a college degree in 2018.
  • css 8y ago
    [citation needed]
    • GuiA 8y ago
      1980 minimum wage per hour: $3.10 1980 median house price: $47,200 = 15,225 hours of labor 2018 average out of college wage per hour: $20 2018 median house price: $320,000 = 12,800 hours of labor — Rough calculations with numbers plucked off google, if one wants to quibble over the numbers/data source/proportion of taxes in the calculation/importance of state where one resides/cost of university/etc. we certainly go that route; but the numbers certainly do not seem that dramatically far apart.