• Triasha@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The article is real and “shit still sucks” can both be true.

    My thought upon reading the headline was “gonna need another 12 years before people start thinking we have turned the corner for the better.”

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        4 months ago

        I just figured the hole is that deep.

        Growing up my family could pile into a van for a 2 week road trip or Disney vacation every summer. My grandparents were still working at that time, grandfather was a small business owner mechanic. Grandmother was a part time bookkeeper for a non profit.

        To have that financial independence today, I would need triple my income, or my wife and I would need to double our income.

        I figure a decade+ of real wage gains across the economy would approximate that. Maybe not for me personally, but for the average.