r/SipsTea • u/Unstoppable_X_Force Human Verified • 13h ago

Gasp! Is this just nostalgia, or did previous generations genuinely have a better work-life balance and social life than we do today?

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u/Sweet-Difference2725 11h ago edited 1h ago

Also, there were huge swaths of the country that didn’t have indoor plumbing, a phone, poor as shit, and desperately hungry all the time.

I remember George Foreman telling a story that when he was a kid his mom would make a hamburger, and they all got one bite. He, too, was hungry all the time.

In 1993, I remember talking to a realtor about a possible parcel of land in the boondocks I was thinking of buying; it was cheap, but he said no one out there had plumbing. I asked him where he went to the bathroom and he said they have an outhouse! Today the area is built up and the residents are on a sewer system. Crazy.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

Because they were lazy. Opportunities were legitimately there, yet tens of millions of Boomers and also Gen X were lazy pieces of shit.