@oneeyedundertaker couple of my old teammates have soccer schools that I’m part of. We can’t find coaches. Even college kids. $40 an hour
it’s a really weird time
We live in the best time to be alive in human history. As a society we are much better off now than ever. HOWEVER, we have some major issues. General affordability to do things to better yours and your families lives is a major issue. The gap between the top and the bottom is the largest it's ever been and the "middle class" is smaller than it's ever been. To say things are as affordable now as they were back when boomers were buying their second lake house for 5 blueberries is just absolutely ridiculous and not tethered in reality.
Out of touch boomers and forgotten generation folks are also a major issue with our society.
And there it is.......'Out of touch boomers'
Please define 'out of touch' as you apply the term to 'boomers'..
"The phrase "out-of-touch boomer" is a cultural label used to describe older adults from the Baby Boomer generation whose life advice, communication styles, and beliefs do not match modern economic and technological realities."
"Well, did you look them in the eye and shake their hand?"
Sorry....but you response is gibberish.
oh shoot. That was English. Sorry, I'll try Q speak.... Boomer ARE the Deep State...We live in the best time to be alive in human history. As a society we are much better off now than ever. HOWEVER, we have some major issues. General affordability to do things to better yours and your families lives is a major issue. The gap between the top and the bottom is the largest it's ever been and the "middle class" is smaller than it's ever been. To say things are as affordable now as they were back when boomers were buying their second lake house for 5 blueberries is just absolutely ridiculous and not tethered in reality.
Out of touch boomers and forgotten generation folks are also a major issue with our society.
And there it is.......'Out of touch boomers'
Please define 'out of touch' as you apply the term to 'boomers'..
"The phrase "out-of-touch boomer" is a cultural label used to describe older adults from the Baby Boomer generation whose life advice, communication styles, and beliefs do not match modern economic and technological realities."
"Well, did you look them in the eye and shake their hand?"
Sorry....but you response is gibberish.
We live in the best time to be alive in human history. As a society we are much better off now than ever. HOWEVER, we have some major issues. General affordability to do things to better yours and your families lives is a major issue. The gap between the top and the bottom is the largest it's ever been and the "middle class" is smaller than it's ever been. To say things are as affordable now as they were back when boomers were buying their second lake house for 5 blueberries is just absolutely ridiculous and not tethered in reality.
Out of touch boomers and forgotten generation folks are also a major issue with our society.
Sorry but I just disagree with this. The mid 70s to early 80s were some of the worst economic times this country has seen post WW2. Crazy inflation, energy shortages, historically high interest rates, lousy job markets, crime rates exponentially higher. Unemployment was 9% in the mid 70s, something we've not seen outside of the GFC. I've had long discussions about this with my older boomer parents (my dad was really pre boomer). They felt like they were, at best, running in place for a long time, making little progress.. And they were the professional class types. So they didn't have a lot guilt over finally hitting the good times later on. I expect it will play out the same the ones struggling now with affordability.
We piss away huge sums of money on phones, streaming services, eating out, coffee drive throughs, shoes, perfect teeth, impulse purchases, stylish home decorating and upgrades, automobiles where gadgets have gadgets and more. I used to change my own oil, now it’s $300. Put in my own points and plugs, now cars don’t need those, but they have very expensive computer systems. My dad had one or two sweatshirts, I’ve got dozen or more and I downsized. Yeah, I stand by my statement that a big part of affordable life is the choices you make. .
Hmm, so people in the 50s were pissing away money buying cars, televisions, telephones, garages, and indoor plumbing? When I was pretty young, there were houses in my neighborhood still with outhouses. That would have been 1966, urban renewal got them about 68.
That has been the history since the industrial revolution. New inventions become "must have" items. *Keeping up with the Joneses is as American as baseball and apple pie.
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but I’m just curious what you think about one aspect.The mid 70s to early 80s were some of the worst economic times this country has seen post WW2.
Reagan et al. “cured” the economy with extraordinary debt. More recently the debt picture is not just astronomical but continuously so. Sure that so-called stimulus has created the appearance of better times but how do you put that all together in your mind?
As always, I don't claim to understand much with macroeconomics, but this sounds bat shit crazy to me:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/trump-fed-rates-jobs-trade.html
As always, I don't claim to understand much with macroeconomics, but this sounds bat shit crazy to me:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/trump-fed-rates-jobs-trade.html
It is crazy, soon we will stop trade with countries that have better weather unless they make their weather worse
What surprises me is we haven't targeted nations who aren't sending tourists (Canada for example). Tourism was down 5.5% last year, an additional 4.4% so far this year. That is a lot of money.
As always, I don't claim to understand much with macroeconomics, but this sounds bat shit crazy to me:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/trump-fed-rates-jobs-trade.html
Don't you know how Trump operates at this point? It's him trying to change the narrative on rates. And he does it because it works. It's basically a coin flip now that they'll raise rates in September. Instead of the conversation being are rates going up (which is the real question) he posts something dumb and the narrative changes.
If Bessent had the ability to lower rates I don't even think he would. Trump just wants them not to raise them and certainly not right before the election. I also don't think rates should go up either. The inflation is being driven mostly by deficit spending, stock market, and to a lesser degree the Iran War. Raising rates would make the deficit spending worse and it won't stop inflation from a temporary supply shock. Raising rates enough would eventually trigger a slow down in the economy and pop the stock market, which would crush inflation. However, it would blow out the debt even more as tax receipts collapsed. And this is why you don't run huge deficits. There are no good answers.
oh shoot. That was English. Sorry, I'll try Q speak.... Boomer ARE the Deep State...We live in the best time to be alive in human history. As a society we are much better off now than ever. HOWEVER, we have some major issues. General affordability to do things to better yours and your families lives is a major issue. The gap between the top and the bottom is the largest it's ever been and the "middle class" is smaller than it's ever been. To say things are as affordable now as they were back when boomers were buying their second lake house for 5 blueberries is just absolutely ridiculous and not tethered in reality.
Out of touch boomers and forgotten generation folks are also a major issue with our society.
And there it is.......'Out of touch boomers'
Please define 'out of touch' as you apply the term to 'boomers'..
"The phrase "out-of-touch boomer" is a cultural label used to describe older adults from the Baby Boomer generation whose life advice, communication styles, and beliefs do not match modern economic and technological realities."
"Well, did you look them in the eye and shake their hand?"
Sorry....but you response is gibberish.
If the first 'boomer' was born in 1945, that 'boomer" would have been 20 in 1965, when 'the Great Society' grift started.
20 year-old people don't make policy, legislation and don't run mass global communication machines....
The 'indict the boomer ' mantra is gibberish.
If the first 'boomer' was born in 1945, that 'boomer" would have been 20 in 1965, when 'the Great Society' grift started.
20 year-old people don't make policy, legislation and don't run mass global communication machines....
The 'indict the boomer ' mantra is gibberish.
If only the generational economic impacts of the boomer generation stopped in the 60s you might have a point.