Elli Ott
these graphs are all correct. They show that my entire life there has been an increasing horrible split.
I have never known a time where things were good financially.
I was eight years old in 1980. I was 18 in 1990.
All I ever saw was things going downhill for working class people like my family.
and watched it continue to go down faster and faster and faster
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Elli Ott that graph with the groceries?
I was eight years old in 1980.
I watched over the next 25 years things only getting higher only getting more expensive only getting worse only getting harder never getting easier
I never saw a time where things were wonderful
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Elli Ott
adults promised things that didn’t exist anymore.
“Just do this simple thing”
I looked around for that simple thing and it wasn’t there
I clung to the simple things that did happen and watched them disappear
I watch people growing up that never knew even a little bit that I saw disappear
and I couldn’t close my eyes to any of it
and there was no one to complain to about it
I watched good things come too
A lot of great things.
but not prosperity.
and now it’s even harder than then.
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James Gray
I don’t talk about these things because it was not OK to talk about those things once upon a time.
it’s worse for younger people financially but the dialogue is a little open at least.
there’s hope now. maybe. a little.
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generation X often retreated to spirituality and religion and finding themselves
getting rich simply wasn’t in the cards
there’s always a few exceptions but they always started off with money
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I would’ve done something if I could’ve. I was mostly in shock that we all weren’t dead yet.
hopeful nihilism.
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Elli Ott
should 100% fully completely blame generation X for failing
I never liked my generation and I’m part of it
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