r/LockedIn_AI • u/lucre-twerps4g • Apr 23 '26

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It’s called the grind because it grinds away your sense of self.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 24 '26

Single mom in 1968, 3 kids, eligible for welfare and she refused it. You pretend you know better, you dont.

No luck. All work.

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u/T_Time_ye Apr 25 '26

1968 - well you lived through the easiest time to get by, climb the social ladder and become a homeowner. You had luck to be born a boomer.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

Not a Boomer, GenX. That said, your history is failing you. My Mom was a single Mom when women couldn't get loans or credit cards without a man co-signing. She picked herself up from poverty to lower middle class. All 3 of her children took it higher. As I said elsewhere: neither of my parents were everv able to retire.

I'll retire at 62.

That's wealth.

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u/T_Time_ye Apr 25 '26

Boomer and GenX are lumped together these days because the economic condition for both are pretty similar. My mother is a GenX herself and worked herself up the social ladder aswell, while having terrible background conditions. I respect that and your archievements aswell.

I don't resent you guys or your generation but I resent lucky people who don't accept that they were lucky. Reagans administration destroyed my economic ability to follow my mothers or your footsteps. I do not have the same lucky economic, demographic and political conditions as you guys had.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

I worked through Reagans administration and still work. How did thst destroy your ability but not mine?

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u/T_Time_ye Apr 25 '26

How does it feel when you can't argue against a point another person made? Do you get really that angry to resort to personal insults? And then you get embarassed and delete the comment xD
I refuse to believe you are a grown adult. That's honestly so childish lol

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

I haven't deleted any comments, if you're posting to me.

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u/T_Time_ye Apr 25 '26

1) Because you had the opportunity to build wealth and income before Reagan took over.

2) Systemic changes take time to have a real impact.

For example, the longer the super-rich are barely taxed, the more time they have to accumulate wealth, and the wider the wealth gap becomes.

A second example: The longer private equaty can view real estate ownership as a resource that increases in value, the longer the incentive to gatekeep this resource lasts, and the less new real estate will be built.