• LwL@lemmy.world
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    The average income, according to a quick search, was $975. Comparing this to the current US median wage of $32k (and keep in mind the 1937 figure is arithmetic mean, the median was likely lower), incomes went up at a rate far beyond inflation as well. Not everything is affected equally. Though without living in the US and mostly guessing from prices here I’d guess many things on the list went up even more, like movie tickets.

    The same search also suggested that the 1937 average wage was 25% lower than the 1932 one, so it seems 1937 was actually a pretty shit year.

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      We owe the last two generations a big thank you for the absurd cost of housing right now. They made it a major portion of their wealth, and they prevented new housing from being added. People my parents’ age were able to buy a house while waiting tables and being teachers. You couldn’t even afford a down payment on a house where I live with that kind of income.

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        Can we stop the generational blame game? Its just not fucking helpful and its maddening how its become such a big distraction from actually placing blame where its needed.

        The people who make these problems are the people we vote for. From your local community to the highest office/power in your country.

        Because current generation people who follow old dogma are just as responsible as old generation people if they are voting for the same shitty policies/practices.

        We KNOW this. The GOP, as an example, has young people that arent old enough yet to vote who believe in their bullshit.

        Same with all the religious fucktards and by god it seems they are crawling out of every nook and cranny.

        And one more thing to consider on this.

        Measles is making a comeback because of YOUNG people being fucking idiots who believe the bullshit they are fed. Is this their fault? Or the fault of the status quo? Go on a dating site. Look at how many young people are still antivax. Its apalling and the covid antivaxers of all walks of life are a good example(just my opinion) of how our leaders, if we let them do whatever they want without consequence, will make decisions that are good for them but bad for everyone else.

        Its people who make decisions only caring about short term results who are also selfish people are the ones who fuck over the vast majority of everyone who isnt them.

        What i would like to see is blaming the institutions and people who are usitilizing the mechanisms of our torment to continually degrade the experience we should all be having into the one we are having.

        Blaming boomers or zoomers for all of the problems we have is just not helpful and only divides the suffering masses and prevents us from. Wanting to help each other. There are some individuals who hold a lot of the blame for the problems we have. But most of the problems we have are from a million small changes and influences working towards empowering power for the financial benefit of power. And money is always a form of power and always has been. When money gets to do what it wants then we all will suffer the consequences that are often not realized until well after the actions were taken.

        Unless we want to start over from scratch we going to have to shift from just blaming those who came before and start future proofing the decisions that will need to be made in the future.

        We need to start thinking planning and making sacrifices not for today or the next 5 years but 25 to hundreds of years in the future.

        We need new visions of what the world should look like today but we cant do that without understanding how we arent all better off already.

        Sorry for the rant. Im sure i didnt make a lot of sense but i hope anyone reading this will at least one time will make a difference in how they would have treated someone because of the different generation they are part of and help bring us all together instead of dividing us further, or just keeping to our separate groups

        Edit. Got onto ramble and it didnt end up being just one more thing

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          11 months ago

          Can we stop the generational blame game?

          No. You seem to think I’m a young person. I’m not. Don’t need to lecture me about things I see at town hall meetings.