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What was so much better about our parent's and grandparent's jobs? I don't think you need all that much money to build a life worth living, at least in my expe
by SirMaster 3y ago
What was so much better about our parent's and grandparent's jobs?
I don't think you need all that much money to build a life worth living, at least in my experience.
- tremon 3y agoThey didn't have to work 120+ hours/week between them. Single-income households leave a lot more time for managing the family unit.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoGrandpa lived through the Great Depression, and Great Grandpa would have had to work 7 days a week for 10 hours without any worker protections. Then legislation got passed to make work not awful, and two World Wars happened that killed huge swathes of the prime working demographic -- 18-40 year old men -- and opened up the market for those who were left. That world doesn't exist anymore, and labor legislation is being peeled back.