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Cake day: October 29th, 2023

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  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHard work
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    4 hours ago

    I did some maths yesterday, after hearing said that wages have gone down by a third every decade since 1970… meaning (if I did the maths correctly) in this coming decade wages are less than a tenth what they were in the 1970s.

    A quick search just now suggests house prices are about 4 times more expensive in real terms over the same period.

    So that’s fine. We just have to pull on our bootstraps over 40 times harder for better budgeting enough to buy a house.




  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHard work
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    5 hours ago

    Yep. Like merc@sh.itjust.works said at the end of their reply:

    I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it’s like not to be rich. As a result, they don’t ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad’s lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn’t yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents’ spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.