1 year ago28 points(+0/-0/+28Score on mirror)3 children
There are now women and at least 50 million legal and illegal migrants grossly overinflating the labor pool. This is why wages havn't kept pace with inflation *since 1979.*
1 year ago13 points(+0/-0/+13Score on mirror)2 children
it's monopolies
mergers and acquisitions have been off the charts since 1979
if there was genuine market competition then weak members of the labor pool would be naturally excluded.. women would be begging to stay at home if small business competition actually existed
policies like maternity leave and minimum wage can only be sustained by giant vertically integrated companies. it's designed to soften up smaller players and make them absorbable. take those "perks" away and they'll disappear out of the labor pool the next day.
1 year ago19 points(+0/-0/+19Score on mirror)2 children
Clearly it's millenials' fault for buying too many starbucks coffees. According to boomers, if you just saved that money instead of wasting it on fast food, you could do everything they did in 1984, but today
1 year ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)2 children
While boomers are retarded for thinking that, newer generations also spend a ton of money on stupid shit that any rational person would not.
Sure, spending using their brain wont magically get them the life of boomers but it would put them in a better and safer financial place.
Just having savings so that you can risk losing or quitting your job while looking for something else for a few months gives you a leverage. Living day to day makes you the best wageslave
1 year ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)1 child
Rent has doubled or tripled in most areas though, and so has food and transportation prices. Most people aren't able to save money anyway. It's kind of sad that people can't even blow a little bit of money on dumb shit if they want to anymore. After all, they worked for that money, who is anyone to tell them what to spend it on.
this can be debated but i don't really care either way what other people do with their money. the point is people used to be able to spend money on leisure and now most don't. it's the big picture of America dying slowly into super rich and poor classes