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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

1y ago

This should be the norm for the average family again

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It never was, if you lived it. TV isn't a reliable history book
- I lived it for a few brief years in the 70s then Reagan fucked us all
  It was absolutely true. The only families not on single income were hard laborers or non-managerial retail/fast food and even then a carpenter could easily feed a family of 5.
  
  "It was true for me because I was from a moderately wealthy area and family therefore it was the norm"
  
  Lol no, not even close. My dad was a construction worker and my mom was a housewife until 1985, and we lived in the deep south. She took up data entry, and that's how I got my start on computers.
- Eh, I think it was, for a certain type of person:
  A middle class white male. Now even working couples with no children can have trouble making ends meet.
- So my parents didn't go to college for the wages of a job worked only during the summer?
  They didn't walk straight into jobs?
  My grandfathers didn't provide for 6 kids each on a solo income in the post war era?
  Buddy. We have the history. The records, the paperwork, the video evidence.
  
  Nope. You have vague stories from two generations back of a generation noted for not mentioning the hard parts.
  
  Lmao. No. It really is all documented. This isn't the dark ages where entire populations drop off the record and reappear 100 years later.

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