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I'm not sure what you mean by that last sentence. Are you saying if only the poor were better with money they'd stop being poor?
by ahaferburg 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that last sentence. Are you saying if only the poor were better with money they'd stop being poor?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI'm saying there were large-scale forces at work during WW2 that forced many people into that pattern. It's much harder to do on an individual basis without those forces, but can be done sometimes. Among other things, I paid down debt while homeless. My last student loan payment was made in July 2017. I was back in housing in September the same year. Of course, your framing sounds like I'm being accused of blaming the poor. I'm not. I'm just questioning the assertion of the article because it honestly doesn't fit with what I have read of history. The Baby Boomer generation is the children of the WW2 veterans. It was a very widespread phenomenon. There are factors at play now that are definitely different from then. Most new houses in the 1950s were about 1200 sqft. Now they are nearly 2500 sqft. We desperately need to do something about our housing supply. But most people don't want to.