Danny Boling ☮️Jun 24, 2023

"I feel the need to explain something to the generation that does not remember, or never saw, a world where one person with a high school education could support a family of 5 comfortably.

"This was real. For millions of US families. It was *normal.*

"It was stolen from you."

#IAmDB

Show threadGiles GoatJun 24, 2023
@IAmDannyBoling Maybe was normal in USA ONLY, I can tell you "it never been normal anywhere else" probably.
Show threadIain MacLean
@gilesgoat @IAmDannyBoling I'd say it was common in New Zealand after World War 2 and until the late 1970s. Local manufacturing and engineering supported a lot of families with decent wages. These were displaced by cheaper imports and that has caused a lot of social and economic problems. We can buy cheap shit from overseas, but I reckon a lot of people would rather have a better paying job.
Jun 25, 2023 at 12:11amWeb
Show threadGiles GoatJun 25, 2023
@pkboi @IAmDannyBoling My dad is a very good mechanic he knows how to fix all sorts of engines from small to big. He did not have even the college but "a specialist school" for mechanics. Up to 197x something as you say it was possible to sustain a family of 3 with one salary. Then it became impossible if you wanted to not live on the edge of poverty, my mum always had one or more jobs. At the age of 16 I started to work too as I want a computer. MOST heard sentence "we have not enough money".
Show threadGiles GoatJun 25, 2023
@pkboi @IAmDannyBoling Nowdays in Italy the story goes if you are a family of 3 you normally need 2 people working, one salary pays for the rent/some costs, the other for food/the other costs one single working person is no longer sufficient and even recently "cause Ukraine war" ( that's the excuse ) prices of everything went mental ( even here in UK ) energy, food, whatever .. it all went considerably app, the same time "job security" is almost non-existent and companies fall like flies.