Younger generations are working more for less. Wages have not increased nearly as much as the cost of living. College prices have skyrocketed. Everything is more expensive nowadays.
So yeah, we do need to work harder/longer just to get by.
I saw an article today that says the average boomer is an ■■■■■■■■ Congress right now is made up of a majority of boomers. They compromise about as well as two year olds. Go figure.
Of course. That is why 50 or 60 years ago a guy could work one job and afford a house, car, family and a comfortable middle class lifestyle. Nowadays if you work one job you can barely afford the basics if you are lucky.
Yep the average Boomer is now getting a Social Security that relies on the labor of Gen Z because they didn’t shore up the system when they knew that a period of underfunding was coming for a couple of decades.
Well the guy who spends 16 hrs a day digging ditches at the Federal minimum wage can live on the street of dreams. That’s exactly how our economy works. The richest people always pay the hardest workers more money. They don’t base what they pay off how much their workers actually make them. If they did that, they wouldn’t make any money when they stop working themselves.
That’s akin to me saying I worked harder farming rice with tractors and combines than farmers did sowing and reaping by hand in the 1800s. Or ranching on open prairie on horseback without pens and chutes.