• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      Eh, I think it was, for a certain type of person:

      A middle class white male. Now even working couples with no children can have trouble making ends meet.

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      I lived it for a few brief years in the 70s then Reagan fucked us all

      It was absolutely true. The only families not on single income were hard laborers or non-managerial retail/fast food and even then a carpenter could easily feed a family of 5.

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        “It was true for me because I was from a moderately wealthy area and family therefore it was the norm”

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          Lol no, not even close. My dad was a construction worker and my mom was a housewife until 1985, and we lived in the deep south. She took up data entry, and that’s how I got my start on computers.

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              Did you have an iodine deficiency growing up? His whole fucking point is that he WASN’T POOR. Despite having only one parent working in manual labor.

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                  The context of you being a total dick for no apparent reason? Yeah, that context is loud and fucking clear. Maybe don’t refer to people as “it” in the future and people might take your argumentation a little better.

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      So my parents didn’t go to college for the wages of a job worked only during the summer?

      They didn’t walk straight into jobs?

      My grandfathers didn’t provide for 6 kids each on a solo income in the post war era?

      Buddy. We have the history. The records, the paperwork, the video evidence.

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          Lmao. No. It really is all documented. This isn’t the dark ages where entire populations drop off the record and reappear 100 years later.