Are we going to war?

[Dill]

(07-19-2023, 09:51 PM)Synric Wrote: That's an interesting discussion.

If you discount technology I would say my Dad's generation born in the early 50s young adult through the 70s and into the 80s had it easier than me. There were alot of booms economically during that period with Plastics, Chemcials, Computers, and Automotive. Also that was a period when higher education was becoming more available to everyone without the crushing federal debt.

As this forum's official representative of that generation, I agree with you regarding economic opportunity.

I've mentioned before that I paid off my ed loans in about three years. (I needed about $5,000 in the 70s. My daughter needed 50,000+ in the 2000s.)

We were the last generation whose members universally expected to do better than their parents in terms of
education and wealth--and usually did.

Parents expected that too, and helped and applauded.