Imagine, being in your 40s right now, adding up all the tax dollars you've had to give to the gov't since your very first paycheck, and realizing you could have possibly retired by now if it wasn't for the sticky fingers at every corner, and not just be scraping by check to check...
Only 68 but with you all the way why is it people our age were working at 15? By the time these lazy ass kids move out from mommy and daddy we all were married with kids and a damn mortgage..
I'm 34. My grandpa who died late last year was in his 80s. He was able to afford a 3 story house with 5 acres and support his 5 kids, and wife who didn't work on a maintenance man's salary. He bought his house for 70K in the 70s and it just sold for close to 300K. I've been working since I was 14, I don't have nearly the wealth that my parents, or their parents had at the same age. Starting a family is a lot harder than in the past as well due to social media and dating apps. Although I'm married now, I had a hell of a time finding someone.
It is the plan to make each generation poorer than the last until it all falls apart. 2 jobs plus my wife works - barely making ends meet... I feel your pain.
I'm curious as to why his house was sold as opposed to passing it down? Was it that the family couldn't agree to anything else? I have the sense that in the old days, those things were passed down. It was expected that they would be passed down. They somehow got us to accept selling off the old things & buying new ones. With almost every house sold the bank makes money. Even if your relatives charged you a "mortgage" it would be better to give it to them than to the bank / Fed reserve system
Imagine, being in your 40s right now, adding up all the tax dollars you've had to give to the gov't since your very first paycheck, and realizing you could have possibly retired by now if it wasn't for the sticky fingers at every corner, and not just be scraping by check to check...
Yes - I've thought about that. I'm 71! Been working since I was 15 - paying into SS since 15.
Only 68 but with you all the way why is it people our age were working at 15? By the time these lazy ass kids move out from mommy and daddy we all were married with kids and a damn mortgage..
I'm 34. My grandpa who died late last year was in his 80s. He was able to afford a 3 story house with 5 acres and support his 5 kids, and wife who didn't work on a maintenance man's salary. He bought his house for 70K in the 70s and it just sold for close to 300K. I've been working since I was 14, I don't have nearly the wealth that my parents, or their parents had at the same age. Starting a family is a lot harder than in the past as well due to social media and dating apps. Although I'm married now, I had a hell of a time finding someone.
It is the plan to make each generation poorer than the last until it all falls apart. 2 jobs plus my wife works - barely making ends meet... I feel your pain.
I'm curious as to why his house was sold as opposed to passing it down? Was it that the family couldn't agree to anything else? I have the sense that in the old days, those things were passed down. It was expected that they would be passed down. They somehow got us to accept selling off the old things & buying new ones. With almost every house sold the bank makes money. Even if your relatives charged you a "mortgage" it would be better to give it to them than to the bank / Fed reserve system