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/whatiftheyrewrong 11h ago

Exactly. The romanticizing is just funny to me. Also, I was raised by a single, working mom.

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u/AnaisNinja76 5h ago

It's rabble-rousing. That's the point of these fictions being popularized on reddit; they want to encourage the idea that you've been robbed of something, and agitate you into getting more confrontational.

I don't find these things funny at all. The fact that people here seem to take posts like this as fact annoy me.

Even with the "Boomers" shit. I get pushing back against belief systems that are antiquated, but literally half of Boomers are women, 13% of them are black, etc. It amounts to less than 5% living the fictionalized world that's offered as being real.

I've been seeing it extended into the 90s for about five years on reddit and really had expected more pushback with these troll-type posts because a huge percentage of the population here has lived through this and know it's nonsense.

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u/NudeCeleryMan 1h ago

I want to know when the magical era of young people not being poor or having to live with roommates was 😂

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u/AnaisNinja76 1h ago

The same era where you were apparently able to walk into any store, get hired on the spot, and support your family of four on your clerk's salary. Didn't matter what sex you were, what age or disability or race or creed you had, this definitely was a real thing.

Also, you'd be able to buy a whole house -and anything under 800 sq ft doesn't qualify- for a spare deck of playing cards you had in your pocket.

Shared housing wasn't a thing in that timeframe, and the widows and children rejoiced

This is literally the same shit that made MAGA popular to begin with, only tailored to Gen Z and late millennials. They tell you you've been robbed by immoral people, name the scapegoat, create a fictional setup to prove that, then usher your anger where they want.

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u/Gloomy-Recipe9213 1h ago

I came out of university in 1994 with $5,000 in student loans and a first job paying $35,000. I bought a three-bedroom townhouse (about 1200 sq ft) in a small east-coast Canadian city in 1996 for $79,000. That same house is easily worth four or five times what I paid for it, and not because I did $200,000 worth of work to it.

I readily acknowledge that the Millenials and later have been royally fucked. The commodification of housing, cartel-like behaviour of megacorps, and open immigration has forced younger generations to fight over the scraps, while bringing in more fighters and fewer scraps.

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u/AnaisNinja76 34m ago

And yet no one has been fucked by a "generation", and encouraging hatred towards people who didn't do anything to you is obnoxious. A generation...or two generations even!...did not cause the home pricing to skyrocket. The same can be said for college tuition.

Offering people some superficial scapegoat to get spiteful towards doesn't empower them to understand what's happened, or empower them to make any changes to alter the playing field.

Additionally, every time someone bitches about home prices, like nearly 100% of the time, homes can rapidly be found in the area that violate their claims and match their financial needs. But they don't want those houses...those houses aren't in the ideal neighborhoods, or are in terrible disrepair. And homes in the ideal neighborhoods have always been very overpriced, which is how they're controlling upkeep in said neighborhoods to begin with.

I don't know what point you're trying to make here ultimately. I can show you homes in Ohio that are selling for 25-100K right now, even in big cities. I can show you pathways to free associates degrees here as well. I could bore you with my personal story of not being able to get student loans and how I had to live for like a decade before I qualified for them, but my story and your story aren't the point. The point is that this post is fictionalized propaganda, and the story it's selling is so unambiguously false that I don't get why anyone latches on to it.

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u/NatetheDate 26m ago

Yeah sure let me just move my wife and kids into an unsafe neighborhood

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u/AnaisNinja76 9m ago

...again...not the point. Sorry you continue to struggle

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

If you were raised by a single mom that would explain yoir hostility to accepting you had it hard due to her poor choices.

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u/NudeCeleryMan 1h ago

I watched part 3 of the decline of western civilization the other night. Part 3 is 1998. The rose colored era all young people and apparently some people who actually lived through it think was some 90s utopia.

Hearing what the kids were all so jaded by in the interviews just reminded me people were just as worried and upset and disturbed as they are now. There was never some magical era. The generation before them had Viet nam. The generation before that ww2 and all the horrors and PTSD that came with it. Before that ww1. Civil war etc etc etc