We were talking about housing being an issue and how expensive it is. I was actually floored how cheap it was, I didn’t realize it was THAT much cheaper in some areas. I then showed her this generational wealth gap graph https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5VFG0r8zGz.jpg and she had a hard time understanding “how” boomers had such an absurdly high amount of wealth, especially compared to my generation. Like she knew shit was tougher for a lot of us than it was back in her day, but I don’t think anyone has ever visualized it for her to really see how truly bad it is, and I wish it was a bigger topic people like her were more informed about.
I fully knew how much cheaper and easier everything was back then but goddamn, 3k? lol
Dude, I wish I could, but it would be a hell of a convo tbh with you. She watches fox all day but still sees how fucked up shit is when I talk to her in plain words and not tucker carlson ranting a bout the great replacement or whatever. Also she is on Facebook more than anyone I know. I removed her for at least dozen content farm groups but once you join one they invite you to a bunch and she’ll just accept because boomer.
It’s even worse than that too, they can literally just buy ads and metrics on facebook because of how easy the make it to target certain demographics.
Boomers don’t know shit about anything, they for real will just accept a ton of invites cause of the way FB makes them appear as a personalized message.
Remember to convert for inflation and/or PPP. But even after that it’s still very cheap.
My grandpa put $100 down for his first house in 1960.
That’s $880 today according to an inflation calculator I found online.
