i've been watching a lot of older commercials from the 80's. the gold standard was gone, but we didn't have things like nafta and immigration had not gone complete pants-on-head retard yet. brand new hondas, no frills, cost $5,000. but then you'd see a commercial for an electronics store with a betamax "on sale" for $500, lol. minimum wage at that time was $4.30 an hour. i sure would love it today if minimum wage was still only $7.25 instead of even double what it was in the 80's at $8.60 if it meant a brand-new honda cost only $10,000. they can keep their $1,000 betamax. in the early 90's me and my friends were in college and could work part-time jobs delivering pizza or whatever and cover apartment rent. the ones of us on scholarship (me, hardy har) could plug away extra into savings. things just really aren't fair anymore. i looked up those two-bedroom apartments we used to share for around $180 a month. those apartments still exist... at $1400 a month. it's insane. we were earning a little over $4 an hour minimum wage or maybe a little more if we were working jobs with tips and never worried about rent. federal minimum wage hasn't even doubled since the 90's and those crappy little apartments are almost 10 times what they cost. boomers are absolutely fucking braindead when they tell younger people they have things easy or they're lazy and don't work hard.
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