My dad (silent generation): Back in my day, a guy could get a job at a gas station and be able to own a house and support a stay-at-home wife and kids. I dunno how you kids make it.
Me (gen X): Back in my day, a guy could get a job at a gas station and afford rent and food. I dunno how you kids make it.
I’m not sure when the guy in the comic was born. Medieval times maybe? Because economic conditions for working class folks have been getting steadily worse for the entire lifespan of everyone alive today, at least in the US.
WW2. That was the event that created the initial prosperity that allowed the previous generations to build up their wealth, since the US was one of the only industrial countries that kept pretty much its entire infrastructure intact, and we’ve been on the slow, steady decline ever since now that the rest of the world has caught up again. And now instead of innovating, our economy has been converted into primarily rent-seeking on already existing things.
My dad (silent generation): Back in my day, a guy could get a job at a gas station and be able to own a house and support a stay-at-home wife and kids. I dunno how you kids make it.
Me (gen X): Back in my day, a guy could get a job at a gas station and afford rent and food. I dunno how you kids make it.
I’m not sure when the guy in the comic was born. Medieval times maybe? Because economic conditions for working class folks have been getting steadily worse for the entire lifespan of everyone alive today, at least in the US.
WW2. That was the event that created the initial prosperity that allowed the previous generations to build up their wealth, since the US was one of the only industrial countries that kept pretty much its entire infrastructure intact, and we’ve been on the slow, steady decline ever since now that the rest of the world has caught up again. And now instead of innovating, our economy has been converted into primarily rent-seeking on already existing things.