One guys rant

[Tradewind]

Thanks for planting the seed of doubt @Tradewind
Now im wondering if the images of my colon are the real McCoy , or not.
It was a nice 30 min nap time though.

I am not even going to ask what you found.........

 

[Dougfirtree]

I never said it was complete. There are a lot of things at play, but I have numbers. Average size of a home = 1970 1600sq ft, 2015 2500sq ft
Average family size decreased from about 3.6 to 3.15 over same period. Bigger homes and smaller families. That shows Americans changing their expectations of what they consider normal. Did it drive the need for a second income or did the second income drive the expectations higher? I can't answer that.

Wages not growing fast enough is certainly a problem, but more for tax revenue. There is other data showing we spend less of our income on fuel and groceries than we did 40 years ago. Most everyone is walking around with a smart phone or watching a big screen TV. Makes me wonder what exactly people spend their money on and if they are willing to "sacrifice" it to become a one-income family, and is there something special about that?

Any comparison to your Ivy league Dad might be tough because it is anecdotal. If your point is a college education is too expensive, I would agree. We have elected to reduce federal funding to colleges for the last 40 yrs. Again, most of the items in the rant need to start with us looking in the mirror.

No argument that these are factors!

 

[noharleyyet]

Does that include you?

Water?...pshaw, never touch the stuff.

 

[Stocker]

I’ve been on this rant for a few years. I tell everyone that I think 95% is fake or a scam. From news to crap you buy. Everything is junk, if it isn’t junk then you are generally just buying a brand which is a scam. Everything is built to break so you throw it away or pay the company that designed it to break to fix it. Our tax dollars are grifted by politicians or scammed in every way possible. Everytime they come up with a cure it causes 10 problems. People post crap on facefook and think people actually give a damn about it. The only thing people give a damn about is scantily clad IG models and most of them are AI now.

I knew I’d get to be an old curmudgeon someday but at 37 really? I’m gonna be a real SOB if I live to 50.

 

[Tradewind]

I’ve been on this rant for a few years. I tell everyone that I think 95% is fake or a scam. From news to crap you buy. Everything is junk, if it isn’t junk then you are generally just buying a brand which is a scam. Everything is built to break so you throw it away or pay the company that designed it to break to fix it. Our tax dollars are grifted by politicians or scammed in every way possible. Everytime they come up with a cure it causes 10 problems. People post crap on facefook and think people actually give a damn about it. The only thing people give a damn about is scantily clad IG models and most of them are AI now.

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