> to their credit, the boomers really did hustle 16 hour days to work a gas station and a paper route, and assistant house painter, whitewashing fences and odd jobs, and true to their word, they saved up 2 years, and paid cash for a whole house and property, no mortgage. they absolutely did not do that though. in the 60s your could rent a two-bedroom apartment working part-time at the minimum wage. they lived on "literally just exist" mode. if you worked a full-time job, any full-time job, you'd end up a millionaire. you literally just had to not be a total drooling retard, and there's still millions of boomers entering into their geriatric years on the brink of homelessness.  all you had to do back then was work a job, and literally millions of them still fucked it up somehow.
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