deuce-ish: I saw that making 51k in 2000 is over $100k now*

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I saw that making 51k in 2000 is over $100k now*

Posted by WesMantooth

on November 10, 2026, 06:23, in reply to "What is today’s hourly wage that would match the buying power of minimum wage in the 1970s?"

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$66/hour

The defense rests, your honor.

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that they just need to show up and vote and they get to make the decisions moving forward.

Boomers are generationally hated by pretty much everyone and are about to have A Bad Day moving forward. Politicians who aren't retards will very shortly quit catering to them and their benefits are about to get slashed.

Fixing social security should soon be on the table in the form of reducing / capping current benefits as well as means testing.

Medicare will follow with means testing.

2nd home property taxes may take a hike.

Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

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This gives me hope for the future. The Millennials and Gen Z just need to realize - villain November 9, 2026, 14:04

What is today’s hourly wage that would match the buying power of minimum wage in the 1970s? - villain November 9, 2026, 21:42
- I saw that making 51k in 2000 is over $100k now* - WesMantooth November 10, 2026, 06:23
- Yeah, but those are simplistic comparisons because they don't include things - fratstud November 9, 2026, 22:10
  - Aside from the medicine, I would kill to live in the 70s. - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 11:44
  - Technology advances are pretty irrelevant. - villain November 9, 2026, 22:41
    - 100% social media is a net negative. I think the internet is overall net positive - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 11:44
      - agreed* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 16:29
    - The destruction of the media oligopoly is one of the best things that has - fratstud November 9, 2026, 22:50
      - I would have to pull a Ted K and go live alone in the woods. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 22:53
        
        I could do it, easily. Other than posting on here, I pretty much already - Mismysteri November 10, 2026, 07:15
        
        oh please. If you were living in 70s you'd move directly to the Sunset Strip. - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 11:49
        
        good point* - Mismysteri November 10, 2026, 18:56
  - Exactly. People conveniently forget how simplified life was back then. EDIT - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 22:41
    - you're describing my dream. what a time. - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 11:52
      - What year were you born?* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 14:42
        
        74* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 15:16
        
        Them in all fairness, you have little meaningful memory of how things were in the 1970s. - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 16:27
        
        the music and movies were outstanding. the disco era - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 16:37
        
        Cool. Now do everyday life. - Lexillini Yesterday, 11:52
        
        Nah. I can see how it was hard on a family in the economic climate - AceFrehley Yesterday, 11:58
        
        it was cool to see Star Wars as a new release while in college* - Potomac November 10, 2026, 18:03
        
        if you lived the disco era in real time, as I did, you might not feel that way* - Potomac November 10, 2026, 18:03
        
        Studio 54 baby. It was a helluva time* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 18:24
        
        I would have loved it, a lot! Missed it by about 10 years for being a young adult. Damn* - Mismysteri November 10, 2026, 18:58
        
        double clicked nm* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 19:12
        
        How about being 25 in 1980 and going to the Sunset Strip. - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 19:12
      - I mean...all of our houses float around 1500 sqft unless you've converted the garage... - haighter November 10, 2026, 12:08
        
        So...I was curious. Turns out the average sqft for a household of 4 in the US is 2099 sqft... - haighter November 10, 2026, 12:21
        
        my house is 1450 with another 400 of converted garage that was done 7 years ago - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 12:23
        
        Mine is a 2 floor rowhouse. Around 1100 sqft upstairs...and we converted half of the downstairs... - haighter November 10, 2026, 12:52
        
        my house was built in 1936. it was the cookie cutter era of the San Fernando Valley - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 12:56
        
        Yea...1947 for mine. My neighborhood is called "the Sunset" (specifically the Outer Sunset)... - haighter November 10, 2026, 12:59
        
        While my wife was a kid growning up our neighborhood was very heavily blue collar... - haighter November 10, 2026, 13:05
    - Holy shit! You’ve described my families life (kinda). ;-) * - haighter November 10, 2026, 07:48
    - Are you arguing for or against that pace/style/quality of life? - villain November 9, 2026, 22:44
      - You couldn't do it. Certainly not all of it. You would go out of your mind. I would too. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 22:48
        
        The grocery store is the real deal breaker. Villain is too young to remember - fratstud November 9, 2026, 22:54
        
        I fear we will soon go back to a time much worse in that prospective.* - villain November 10, 2026, 12:00
        
        We are probably in the second inning of what I call "the era of scarcity." For now the - fratstud November 10, 2026, 15:24
        
        Yeah. I mean in many ways, we ate healthier. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 22:58
        
        Not everything was injected with high fructose corn syrup. * - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 12:25
        
        remember when the big gulp was actually huge because we'd only drink 8-12 ounce bottles - Ari Gold November 10, 2026, 10:19
        
        I remember a time in my life where I drank about a 6 pack of Coke a day. - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 10:35
        
        I have one or two a week either with pizza or tacos…cause there’s no better… - haighter November 10, 2026, 10:49
        
        right out of the bottle. there really is nothing better.* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 12:25
        
        Unless it’s mixed with a black rum. * - harb99 November 10, 2026, 13:16
        
        That sounds nice* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 15:17
        
        I was a big Jack and Coke drinker at one time. Kind of want one now.* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 13:51
        
        I love Jack and Coke. It's by far my favorite mixed drink* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 15:17
        
        I guess living down here, I was "pressured" into drinking more bourbon. - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 16:28
        
        Jack is very similar but not as sweet. Bourbon and coke is a tad sweet - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 16:36
        
        Currently distilling two test batches of “oyster vodka”… - haighter November 10, 2026, 16:43
        
        What is oyster vodka? is it good in a bloody mary?* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 17:15
        
        Well...still experimenting right now...but yes. There's an Oyster Co up here...Hog Island... - haighter November 10, 2026, 18:24
        
        No offense, but that sounds less appetizing than Pralines and.........dick* - villain Yesterday, 11:29
        
        because the "Caesar" is a popular variant of the classic Bloody - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 18:42
        
        It’s going to play heavily (exclusively?) in seafood / shellfish focused restaurants. * - haighter November 10, 2026, 19:27
        
        I like Dr. Pepper / Mr. Pibb. I maybe have 1 a week, most weeks.* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 11:01
        
        My mom had this ancient sugar cookie recipe that used Crisco. She made a batch - fratstud November 9, 2026, 23:11
        
        Damn. I forgot about Crisco cookies.* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 10:43
        
        We still have a family recipe in circulation, ‘Oatmeal Crispies” - kokomojo November 10, 2026, 10:51
        
        I wasn't even certain that Crisco still existed.* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 11:00
I fail to understand why people are supposed to hate me as a boomer - Potomac November 9, 2026, 15:20
- I recently asked ChapGPT why Boomers are hated and it echoed what some have stated here. - GAIllini November 10, 2026, 12:05
- Your generation bankrupted and destroyed the country. It’s not complicated* - DouchieHowser November 9, 2026, 21:30
- I like you Potomac, but you literally just did the meme....and it's exhibit A as to why boomers - villain November 9, 2026, 18:10
  - I love how GenX and beyond love to hate on Boomers as a whole - kokomojo November 10, 2026, 11:02
    - I don't want to type this all out again, so I'm going to let Chat summarize it for me... - villain November 10, 2026, 11:57
      - Bullshit - kokomojo Yesterday, 13:00
        
        I could be mistaken…but weren’t you a government employee? * - haighter Yesterday, 13:10
  - I don’t think this is true at all. My parents were both pretty poor/lower middle class economically - WesMantooth November 10, 2026, 06:21
    - As someone who is pretty job loyal it boggles my mind to watch people hop…that said… - haighter November 10, 2026, 07:56
  - Right, everything was just handed to Steve Jobs, as one sample Boomer - Potomac November 9, 2026, 19:09
    - Are you comparing yourself to Steve Jobs?* - DouchieHowser November 9, 2026, 21:30
  - I am talking about hours worked, not the economy - Potomac November 9, 2026, 19:02
    - You sure about this Clark? - villain November 10, 2026, 12:04
- It has admittedly waned over the years but I came to strongly dislike the boomers for . . . - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 16:05
  - This sounds like a sounder post. Maybe even Teeki* - WesMantooth November 10, 2026, 06:15
  - In the social media zeitgeist, everyone "old" is a boomer - Xar November 9, 2026, 17:34
    - You may be right, as if everyone born before 1965 is a Boomer* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 17:44
      - he is right. I've seen young ones say it about anyone over 45, roughly - Mismysteri November 9, 2026, 17:47
        
        All living Boomers will be 65+ soon* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 19:10
      - They hate us because they ain't us* - Xar November 9, 2026, 17:47
  - Blame lies squarely on the Boomers for destroying the prospects of - fratstud November 9, 2026, 17:04
    - The Boomers at their core were the most self-indulgent generation ever. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 21:24
      - Best music and movies ever* - AceFrehley November 10, 2026, 12:35
      - The Millennials are worse in those regards. I usually defend the Boomers as a group, though, because - fratstud November 9, 2026, 22:05
        
        The Millennials are indeed far, far worse as a group than are the Boomers. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 22:30
        
        He does, I'm just busting his balls because for every dude who fled - fratstud November 9, 2026, 22:56
    - That sure is a lot of impact for a cohort only 18 years wide* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 17:45
      - You do realize that cohort has had the majority voting power for decades, correct?* - villain November 9, 2026, 18:13
        
        No because at any time four cohorts vote* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 19:11
        
        four cohorts vote, and yours has been the largest of those cohorts for decades - villain November 9, 2026, 19:30
  - Our country was not threatened. Our boys died for nothing. - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 16:25
    - The Boomers did not start the dumb Vietnam war nor escalate* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 17:43
      - IT WAS THE POLITICIANS FAULT, NOT THOSE OF US WHO VOTED FOR THEM!* - villain November 9, 2026, 18:14
        
        The boomers weren't old enough to vote for Kennedy in 1960 they were at their oldest 15 - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 18:30
        
        The voting age was 21 when I turned 18* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 19:12
        
        Great point. The oldest boomers couldn't vote until 66 so 68 would have been their first - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 19:25
    - That's not accurate. At all. And it was more than just opposition to the war. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 16:31
      - Oh wow, Chad is actually smarter than you. Pathetic.* - BLMatters November 9, 2026, 17:40
        
        Whatever. His Wordle stats are shit.* - Lexillini November 10, 2026, 10:43
      - Ladybird Johnson's family owned Bell Helicopter.* - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 16:34
        
        And . . . ? This is the equivalent of leftists screaming "Halliburton!!!" during GWOT.* - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 16:43
        
        I believe Johnson escalated the war in order to make money - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 16:47
        
        Johnson was a lousy SOB but he wasn't that lousy. - Lexillini November 9, 2026, 21:20
        
        And Nixon ended the war, became supremely popular, and was removed in a bloodless coup* - fratstud November 9, 2026, 16:48
Hard NO on any means testing. If that happens everything needs to be eliminated - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 14:08
- One of my all time idols is Ayn Rand - kokomojo Yesterday, 13:10
- The intention was literally in the name of the program. - villain November 9, 2026, 18:17
  - Social security. You pay into it and later you get money. - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 18:31
    - It was always a tax - villain November 9, 2026, 19:34
      - it's not tax when most people will get more than they put in.* - AceFrehley November 9, 2026, 19:41
        
        The average man gets far less out than they pay in when you account for - fratstud November 9, 2026, 23:03
- Capping social security should be ok; eliminating cap on FICA would be terrible* - Potomac November 9, 2026, 15:22
- I'll take that over eliminating the cap, which is what the leftists want to do. I have believed for - fratstud November 9, 2026, 14:35
  - to skip a tax deferral and / or match is insane.* - Ari Gold November 9, 2026, 19:46
    - I have well over $3 million in my rollover and I ain't 50 yet. The contribution does almost - fratstud November 9, 2026, 22:44

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