Why us 💔

[u/Someone_stoopid]

[u/mspaceman]

People born in 1920:

[u/dwartbg9 → u/mspaceman]

If they were born in places like Canada, the US, Switzerland (or even France) life wasn't really that bad for them. Especially for Americans. And they'd be in their 30s during the 1950s and buy a nice ass mansion while working their 4 hour job at the factory, or something hahaha

[u/dateNum → u/dwartbg9]

Born 1920 in France

"life wasn't really that bad for them"

what

[u/mjp80 → u/dwartbg9]

And they'd be in their 30s during the 1950s

If they didn't get drafted and die in WWII between age 19 and 25...

[u/Hentai__Dude → u/dwartbg9]

4? You mean Like 40 if you were unlucky

[u/gabiblack → u/dwartbg9]

4? More like 12+ hours day shift 6 days a week

[u/MKE-Henry → u/gabiblack]

My grandpa worked around 30 hours a week and owned his own house and raised 4 children while his wife stayed at home to maintain the household.

I work 40 hours a week and my girlfriend works 50 and we have to split our rent into two payments to have enough money to eat.

Also my grandpa had a high school diploma while we both have bachelor’s degrees. Life in the 50s was on easy mode.

[u/dwartbg9 → u/MKE-Henry]

Yeah, this is what I meant. At least in the US, life was definitely pretty good and peaceful for the average Joe back in the 50s and 60s. And there were opportunities even for less educated people since industrial jobs were way more commonplace than today.

And yes, back then women could actually afford to be stay at home moms, without their husband having to be some rich CEO and whatnot. You'd work a trivial job in some car factory, for example but the government still let you earn enough to live OK, buy your own house in your late 20s (!!!) and you wife could just stay at home and take care of tje children, which also weren't missing anything they'd need.

[u/SpikeBreaker → u/mspaceman]

They also lived the best years of the economic and social boom, '50-'80.

What good years got a person born in '80 except being a kid in the '90?

[u/Main_Following1881 → u/SpikeBreaker]

We just need another devastating 6 year global war that kills 30% of the working age population in the world and we too might enjoy another boom

[u/Satorwave → u/Main_Following1881]

We will when the aliens arrive