can't remember the post but one boomer talked about making just $3.25 / hr in 1972 working for his family at the age of 14.  if he had purchased gold with his $3.25, then today that gold would be worth $99.26 today.  so effectively boomers complain about only making $100/hour in their uncle's summer job, and having to pull themselves up by the bootstraps &c...
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