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ok, avoiding starbucks is easy because six fucking dollars for a coffee so they can pay their CEO 6,660 times what a barista makes, just so he can fly between seattle and sfo DAILY, yeah, that's easy, but that's not going to transform the entire fucking economy.
what boomers faced 30 years ago? lol, record low interest rates, cheaper education, much higher % of union participation, help me out here what was the rough stuff the boomers went through 30 years ago?
NO FUCKING TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW
Boomers bought their houses in the '70s and '80s when the interest rates were 15%. It's a big part of why the houses were cheaper for them.
Not giving them a pass. They did have what is likely the easiest economy in American history, but they didn't have record low interest rates.
valid
In 1970 the median house was about 22k and median income for white families was 10k mostly via a single earner.
Minorities were of course fucked as usual.
You could save up and outright buy. Now a median household is 80k with 2 folks working looking at 800k anywhere near the jobs they work. With interest of course its more like 1.6M
I more or less agree. The home price to income ratio in the US bottomed out in '74 at 3.62-ish. A healthy economy is between 4 and 5. The peak of the housing bubble was 6.78. Today it's around 7.05. We are beyond cooked and this lady is out of her mind.
That's a legitimate frustration. We don't need to pretend interest rates were at a record low for the boomers to validate that.
They had to watch women, black people, queer folk and transgender people exist and they were scared.
the horrors
If a boomer was buying a house 30 years ago, they were between 32 and 50 years old. They were not buying starter homes 30 years ago. They already had equity.
I was well alive and conscious back then. There was no crisis and home ownership was carefree. The 99's were awesome. She's just a lying removed. Boomers never faced any real challenge besides poor brown kids.
So was I and there was a long recession from 90 to 92. Unemployment hits 7.8% and I believe there were a record number of people on food stamps. It's what made George HW Bush a single term president.
Their economy boomed under Clinton and with the dawn of the internet, but even then middle-aged boomers Warren tech savvy enough to repo the full benefits.
None of that is to say they didn't have it far easier than millennials and zennials. They did. But disliking them doesn't mean we have to overlook the facts. They were challenges along the way.
they were complaining about the prices for their rentals probably