11-13-2015, 01:40 PM
(11-13-2015, 01:12 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I guess my thing is that the buying power that the salary from a regular 9-5 (which is no longer 9-5, but 8-5 usually) has decreased so much over the decades. While the Boomers were being born, the average Joe working a full-time job could support a family. You didn't have to be highly educated, blue-collar jobs could make it work, too. Now, that's not the case. With wages not keeping up with inflation, and costs of certain things outpacing inflation, it has made it very difficult to support a family with jobs that once could. What the causes and solutions are to this problem, that's not something I have any real insights on. I just see that there is a problem, which seems to be a step further than some people care to admit.
You are worth what someone says you are worth, it is kind of the whole idea around a capitalist economy like ours. Those jobs don't support a family anymore because we have decided the skill required to do them is either easily replaced by someone else, or by a machine.
