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Housing was far cheaper. They also didn't have subscriptions to Netflix Amazon and and everything else. Him pretty sure petrol was cheaper as well. Maybe food but I'm not sure depending on location. Can check out inflation of money for each year.
Anecdotal. My fil was saying he bought some land for 30k 30 years ago. I checked what they actually was in today's money. It's 50k. That house now sells for 650k plus. That's the difference. Lots of things are cheaper now but housing has gone up significantly. Wages have stagnated and food is probably similar
They also didn't have subscriptions to Netflix Amazon and and everything else
lol you don't need those subscribtions to stay alive
(i still agree with the rest of your arguments though)
Yeah my parents might have been spending more (possibly nominally, but definitely adjusted for inflation) on cable subscriptions than I am on all of my subscriptions combined at any point.
How dare you
I'm not saying you do. Just that we have more subscriptions now than ever before. Honestly what did people do without tv ? Read board games ? Just go to bed. My mind can't comprehend it.
reading books, going on a walk, knitting, drinking at a pub, touching grass, embroidery, harvesting herbs, smoking weed, inventing steam engines, sacrificing newborns, carving wood, etc.
I pretty much do all that now. Haven't tried steam or sacrifice. Might look into that
i remember when everyone was going ape shit that fuel was gonna reach $1/L. Now if it was $1/L, there'd be queues for days.
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Fair enough. Not really a complaint. Just an observation. Things are different. Not to say anything is better or worse. Just different. But I'll shush
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Good point. Lots of people don't understand that though.