Generation X

[riverview]

i remember smoking on northwest airlines flying out of grand forks

 

[HuntnFish96]

 

[riverview]

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[Rowdie]

 

[Rowdie]

 

[lunkerslayer]

That racing break would wear out those plastic tires quick

 

[SurvivalAmazon88]

That racing break would wear out those plastic tires quick

I loved my big wheel lol

 

[ORCUS DEMENS]

I blame it on less/lower number of union jobs. Back then the wife could stay home because you could afford it. The wage gap between CEO and worker was very close compared to now and alot of that was due to union jobs and contracts. If you look at economic data it clearly will show the gap when pay decreased, union membership decreased, women started working, and CEO pay vs blue colar worker pay separating. Your money also w

ent farther. I know I will get heat from this post but it does show this in the numbers. There could be other factors as well such as America being sold out to china by corporate America..NOT MOM and POP SHOPS.

Wholeheartedly Agree. Governemnt policies (taxes, revolving door congress/military), cultural shifts (Wolf of Wall Street is Satire not a life style). There is a caveat to this, what people expect as a minimum lifestyle is lightyears beyond what the life style was back then. House size, number of cars, everyone in the family must have a cell phone, yearly vacations, dining out, large screen TV's, smart everything electric bikes/toys. Yes a wife could be stay at home back then but they were definitely not living the same lifestyle as todays average American. Still, finding a good union/scale wage job was not easy if you were not the "Right Kind" of person.