When I was just married, on my one salary, my wife did not work, I could afford to have two fairly new cars, buy a house, feed my family, invest in savings, and had a little left over a the end of the month.

Nowadays, this would be mostly impossible for a young couple. The machine, as you call it, has made it nearly impossible for the average person the accumulate wealth (meaning to prosper).

I started working for a large corporation at 22 yrs old. Not only what I believed, but what was generally inferred by company policy was that, if you did your job, you will have a job for life, in other words till retirement.

Well I made it 25 years, and saw many go before me. I went from being a valued employee, part of a corporate family, to a hired killer. As long as I produced a sufficient body count, I had a job. Very little job satisfaction in working under such an arrangement when you sense the axe chopping off heads to the left and right knowing that your head my be next, and finally after 25 years the axe came down on me. Almost makes one think that there was some kind of strategy in play to eliminate people before they could reach retirement.

Fortunately, along with the woman I married 36 years ago, reincarnated from the depression era I suspect, we have lived below our means (I drive a 2005 pickup that still only have 84K miles) and saved a little. But then here come that Machine again to make even savings worthless.

DAMN THE MACHINE!!

When I was just married, on my one salary, my wife did not work, I could afford to have two fairly new cars, buy a house, feed my family, invest in savings, and had a little left over a the end of the month.

Nowadays, this would be mostly impossible for a young couple. The machine, as you call it, has made it nearly impossible for the average person the accumulate wealth (meaning to prosper).

I started working for a large corporation at 22 yrs old. Not only what I believed, but what was generally inferred by company policy was that, if you do your job, you will have a job for life, in other words till retirement.

Well I made it 25 years, and saw many go before me. I went from being a valued employee, part of a corporate family, to a hired killer. As long as I produced a sufficient body count, I had a job. Very little job satisfaction in working under such a arrangement when you sense the axe chopping off heads to the left and right knowing that your head my be next, and finally after 25 years the axe came down on me. Almost make one think that there was some kind of strategy in play to eliminate people before they could reach retirement.

Fortunately, along with the woman I married 36 years ago, reincarnated from the depression era I suspect, we have lived below our means (I drive a 2005 pickup that still only have 84K miles) and tried to save a little. But then here come that Machine again to make even savings worthless.

DAMN THE MACHINE!!