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Yeah, I think a lot of people miss that these jobs opened up when the population was growing much faster due to the baby boom, plus people are living longer. T
by gedy 2y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of people miss that these jobs opened up when the population was growing much faster due to the baby boom, plus people are living longer. Things have changed since the 1950s-80s.
- uhmpire 2y agoChanging quickly now as the prior generation sat still collecting rent as long as possible, refusing to evolve themselves, and kept the next generation away from opportunities to evolve. Teachers who just take public school jobs rather than start local learning programs and nurses who idle in hospitals rather than start some in-home nursing service for their community, academics whose careers stalled due to progress sit there reliving the same old routine blocking newcomers from moving through the pipeline Whole lot of ossified minds in industry who need to get over coddling some sacrosanct story and identity and move along
- ghufran_syed 2y agobut people have more income now - surely working for uber or lyft today is the equivalent of driving a cab then?
- forgetfreeman 2y agoAbsolutely not. Cost of living increases and the like. Consider, back then single income households were the norm because you could absolutely afford a house, car in the driveway, and raise a couple kids on a single blue collar income. Hell, in the late 90s you could make rent on a studio apartment in a single weekend delivering pizza if tips were decent.
- ghufran_syed 2y agoI'm talking about income - you're talking about expenses. Sure, the balance between the two matters, but they're not the same thing!
- forgetfreeman 2y agoI couldn't agree more. One is a number on your pay stub the other is a measure of what that actually means. In 1998 I could do more on the $8hr I was earning at the time than you could earning 3 times as much today.