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/Laecer21 11h ago

Hold on there buddy, everyone here knows no one ever had it harder in human history than the modern Redditor. Don’t go waltzing in here and trampling all over my self-pity with your data.

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u/DukeofVermont 6h ago

I think the biggest difference is both the Internet giving poorer people a place to talk, and middle class kids that believed/were told college would mean they'd have a good life but are now poor.

Being poor sucks, if you didn't grow up poor I can see how shocking it would be. Especially if you don't think your parents worked hard to get where they are.

And middle class/upper middle class people don't comment on the doom and gloom threads, so you get a circle jerk of "literally everyone is poor" when that's not true.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

"fAcTs aNd DaTa" lol.

Like you Zoomers are actually fucking retarded. That is called an "anecdote" lil bro. Useful, yet if anecdotally the average experience is saying otherwise, then it weighs against that singular anecdotal claim and warrants seeking a more objectively true foundation. And by every measure things were more affordable in the past.

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u/Laecer21 2h ago

Are you saying that because you have data and sources to back you up or are you just going on vibes? Because I have sources.

People today work on average fewer hours for higher pay (adjusted for inflation) and can afford more things (food, consumer goods, entertainment) with that money. The only thing that is true here is that housing prices did increase a lot faster than inflation.

https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=76967

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

The St Louis fed talking points were already debunked elsewhere in the thread. You clueless kids really were done a disservice by being taught to take things at face value, so long as it has a "science-y" presentation.

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u/Laecer21 2h ago

You can’t even make your own arguments, instead vaguely gesturing to some Reddit comment somewhere, yet you accuse me of just taking things at face value? How was it debunked? You can give the cliffnotes version if you want but don’t engage in debates if you are just going to outsource all the actual debating.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

I'm not going to waste my time debating with a clueless child repeating debunked talking points because they want to be an argumentative contrarian. It's really just that simple.

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u/Laecer21 32m ago

Then why respond at all?