It’s been interesting for me to watch how rules my dad taught me about self sufficiently and good money management don’t apply if you want to play - you must take on debt to get credit - at least cycle debt - in order to buy a home, decent car etc...
The new model is to live like a king but own nothing - you can not save for YOUR family - you are merely granted access to revenue streams by your overlords and cut off and thrown away if you are disobedient.
Cancel culture works because many people are merely renting their lives from a corporation who lets them live here as long as they don’t fly the wrong flag.
Your dad seems smart enough. But was also able to buy a house and a mach 1 mustang on a 9 dollar an hour salary. Back when factories were booming and looked out for employees, back before unions became corrupt. When health insurance plans, retirement plans were a good deal. When social security was solid. When you could get a nice career just on a high school diploma.
Nailed it.
It’s been interesting for me to watch how rules my dad taught me about self sufficiently and good money management don’t apply if you want to play - you must take on debt to get credit - at least cycle debt - in order to buy a home, decent car etc...
The new model is to live like a king but own nothing - you can not save for YOUR family - you are merely granted access to revenue streams by your overlords and cut off and thrown away if you are disobedient.
Cancel culture works because many people are merely renting their lives from a corporation who lets them live here as long as they don’t fly the wrong flag.
Your dad seems smart enough. But was also able to buy a house and a mach 1 mustang on a 9 dollar an hour salary. Back when factories were booming and looked out for employees, back before unions became corrupt. When health insurance plans, retirement plans were a good deal. When social security was solid. When you could get a nice career just on a high school diploma.
Back before “free trade” enabled the corporations to treat Americans like Chinese workers - as slaves
Isn’t the “level playing field” great? As though I would want to be in the same economy as people with no freedom of speech or rights at all.
This has been how I red-pill my friends and family. I take them through this line of reasoning:
Well, yeah... it's not a livable wage right now.
No, of course not, that's why we have a minimum wage!
Ohh