RE: LeoThread 2025-02-25 23:52
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A new car in 2025 costs as much as a starter home did in 2010. Yet Conservative influencers still think Millennials should be happy to make $35k a year at Panda Express. Sad.
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For sure starting to feel inflation now and everything has doubled in price. These inflation numbers they put out of 9% are total BS. My houses doubled in value, a new car cost nearly twice as much and food is crazy. You really need $50,000 - $60,000 a year now in income to offset what used to be 35k jobs just to keep up!
Government inflation numbers are laughable. Everyone knows it too, but they keep playing along.
A conservative would say you should work your way up to something better than working at Panda Express. $35K is a lot of money for a starter job requiring no experience or education. A $35K job today was a $10K job circa 2000.
You must be a conservative influencer who gets million dollar grants to publicly put down young people.
Lol, then I probably wouldn't be here. Who am i putting down?
Millennials and Zoomers. They have it WAY harder than Gen X or Boomers. The Boomers can NEVER admit that. Most Gen X can't either.
I only stated facts. Those are never a put down and weren't meant to be.
Why do Millennials and Zoomers use Panda Express as an example of a job that should provide a satisfactory income? Working fast food has never been a reasonable way to subsist, certainly not in my lifetime. The idea the Gen Xers or Boomers could do so is complete fantasy at best, delusion at worst.
Both my parents (boomers) worked 40+ hours/week and could barely make ends meet and they had better jobs than working at Panda Express though neither had a college degree. The cars they owned were pieces of junk and the house they were paying a mortgage on was well kept but it was 40 year old former air force housing. These are just facts. If you are going to judge "better" or "worse" then you need to at least use those as opposed to fantasy. I think Millennials and Zoomers have some misguided ideas about how "easy" Boomers and Gen Xers had it (other than the top 1% or so).
The recipe for success today is much the same as it has been, at least for the last 50+ years. Get a college education that qualifies you for an in demand job (not just any degree will do), learn a trade like plumber, electrician, welder, etc., or be a good entrepreneur (I'm sure there are probably other ways too). These things were true in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and still today.
As long as Millennials and Zoomers think of Panda Express as a career they will continue to fail badly. It's hard not to eyeroll so hard they fall out when a Zoomer starts complaining how they can't live on a Panda Express salary. I mean no shit. In other news, the sky is blue. Maybe Zoomers and Millennials really do have it worse but if so, it isn't because they can't live on a fast food salary because Boomers and Gen Xers couldn't either.
A starter home in 2005 cost about $100,000. I know because I bought one. A new car today starts below $20K. My parents' starter home they bought in 1985 cost more than that.
Ok Boomer.
That's my Dad.