When boomers young adults, you could buy a place in Vancouver proper, single detached with a large yard, you could have a stay at home wife, 2 kids, and 2 cars in the garage with a cab drivers salary and no university level education. Free health care. Cable. Boomer parents died relatively young and passed that wealth on to their 40 year old kids and grand kids. I mean you could buy a single detached at like 20-25 if you got an education.
It’s a little different now.
When boomers were young adults, they had the "benefit" of being in the aftermath of WWII and Korea, when we had just spent the last decade or so freeing the shit out of the world and bombing the living fuck out of every respectable manufacturing base on the planet. What we didn't bomb flat, the axis bombed flat for us. We were the only game in town for manufacturing. Multi-mode transportation was in its infancy, and we were still openly racist enough to keep our borders in tight check so the U.S. worker could be a high school educated nimrod and get a decent job because the domestic worker was really the only game in town.
They could get a job straight out of high school that would support a house, car, wife and kids and a retirement because nobody else was making things and the average blue-collar guy wasn't competing with millions of illegals.
So, the same people that wanted us to throw open the doors for every dirt monkey that wants to come here because they want a better life for their family, are the same people, and their families, living in the street or barely making ends meet, and they don't make the connection.
The people that bitch about how they aren't doing so well, have only the basic of education, think anything further than high school is a scam, can't be bothered to lower themselves to the trades, and are so sure they'll be in a lambo and a mansion in the next few years because of their youtube channel or meme coin investment, they haven't bothered to cultivate even the most basic of workplace ethics.
damn kids better get off my grass.
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