New Study Finds That A Minimum-Wage Worker In 1971 Had A Lifestyle Affordability Similar To Someone Making $100K Today

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Yeah try to tell that to a fuckin boomer

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Who y’all gonna cry about after the boomers are gone?

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We will not be crying after the boomers are gone.

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Especially if you get a free house

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I assure you ain’t no free houses coming your way unless you’ve been super nice to grandma…

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There won’t be anyway because grandma is gonna be sucked dry by things like reverse mortgages, assisted living, or end-of-life healthcare costs before she has a chance to pass anything down anyway.

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For us it was cancer and my uncle stole a bunch of valuables and burned her house down.

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Gen X

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And after Gen X…? Or are millennials on down the “good” people?

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So how was anyone struggling financially back then?

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