Nixon shock. We moved off of the gold standard and onto monopoly money which inflates so people are more obligated to spend more money and it helps the rich siphon money out of the plebs more easily so we all gradually become poorer but feel richer.
That car is basically a box of metal on wheels and not much else. I believe the cheapest car in the US is a Nissan Versa for like 17k, and the tech and safety in it are leagues ahead of the 1972 shitbox.
It was a whole lot of things that happened gradually.
Our money isn't backed by anything physical anymore
Corporations have had regulations stripped away slowly
Hedge fund kids have raped the stock market, and decided to minmax the companies they inherited for quick profit
Clever tax fraud has meant that the upper crust doesn't have to pay taxes. At all.
Companies have paid government representatives vast sums of money to act in their best interests rather than the American people's.
I mean it's a whole lot of things, but the long and short of it is that people wanted more, so now everything is worth less.
I hate billionaires and the elite so fricking much bros. I hope that he'll is real or that aliens really are around so they can burn in hell/be left in earth to fend for themselves while we are taken to nirvana.
If the devil was real, he'd walk down the street freely, because he wouldn't be so different from you or I. So maybe the devil is real. He could be a good friend of mine.
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Is this supposed to be a beatles song reference or something
It had way less features, no AC, had a MUCH shorter lifespan, required more maintenance, had terrible gas mileage, and would crumple and explode in a ball of fire if you got in a fender bender
The frick? You can easily get a reliable and lighty-used car for less than $20,000
but I easily go through 20lbs putting away jelly. Not sure how much I burn through the holidays but it’s pretty obscene. Granted, I give away jelly and homemade candy during Christmas but still.
If we collectively abandoned 95% of our modern comforts, novelties, conveniences, safeties, luxuries, and technologies, we could live cheaply. But the population being much higher than it was then would probably add a lot of additional issues.
>If we collectively abandoned 95% of our modern comforts, novelties, conveniences, safeties, luxuries, and technologies, we could live cheaply.
You misspelled abolish the Federal Reserve.
>Why, when I was your age, I owned a house and had three kids. I had no debt and worked hard everyday. You kids need to stop playing video games and buying avocado toast!
It's called capitalism, businesses will naturally raise their prices to match the earnings of their customers. And groceries were cheap because they were being harvested by desperate Okies for 1 penny a day during the great depression.
Housing prices are blowing up due to a shortage in supply, they can't build new units fast enough and it costs more to build them due to a lack of blue collar workers (and illegal aliens)
because boomers created neo-fuedalism fueled by immigration and globalization. If you don't have an inheritance lined up you're doomed to be a 21st century techno-rentoid aka a serf.
>What the frick happened?
Inflation. Was chilling over at my buddies house. We had the tv on in the background and I Robot was on. The scene where he and his boss are talking in a diner and they get a couple beers. He pays and it comes out to something like $23 for a single beer. My buddies flipped their shit until I pointed out it was the future, and until I showed them old ads from decades ago showing what things used to cost
Wages and buying power started a long decline around 1971. Dumb zoomers think people had it great in the 1990s but they were worse off than people in the 60s in terms of buying power.
Sure but the 90s compared to now are a dream. Even 10 years ago I could have afforded a decent house in my big US city. Now I can't afford to own any property here. The last time for great opportunity was probably the 80s. My grandfather bought a house on the beach and built two more right out of the military in the 1970s. Each are at least 1.5 million a piece today.
Wages and buying power started a long decline around 1971. Dumb zoomers think people had it great in the 1990s but they were worse off than people in the 60s in terms of buying power.
The 90s began with a recession and crime hitting an all-time high. It's funny what nostalgia does to people.
If you want a cheap house you can buy one cheap in the middle of nowhere. It will still multiply in value if you do what your grandfather did and wait....50 years.
Beachside property can still be had for cheap, in say Atlantic City.
>The 90s began with a recession and crime hitting an all-time high. It's funny what nostalgia does to people.
its not nostalgia, it's recessions and crime today making the 90s recessions and crime look like a drop in the ocean
>Just think future generations are going to think it was totally amazing you could buy a house in 2023 for only $400,000 >future generations
Dude, they'll be saying that by January
this is almost entirely caused by availability of financing and a host of laws that allow banks to profitably lend far more money than they should for collateralized loans like cars and houses.
a modern new car in 2023 should cost between 16 and 27k for a civic -> accord -> high trim variants of either. we are where we are today because of 2008.
He's not wrong, it's just that no one has come even remotely close to a system to balance it out that doesn't make it 100x worse and render the place a 2nd world shitheap.
>we want to lick billionaire boots
the best I can describe it is "not my problem"
we already have billionaires dodging taxes like the panama papers, any drastic implementation of socialism or whatever will compound the problem, billionaires keep and exploit the loopholes now that they've laid their roots, and everyone underneath them will have to pay up. We didn't stop them when we had the chance, we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot doing so now, and unfortunately reaches the same conclusion
Mmm... Ok. Well, for one, the car you are showing is a Ford Pinto, which came with a self rupturing fuel tank that was just behind a 'breach-loader' of a rear bumper. This thing almost exploded if you just hit a speed bump!
This is also not mentioning the fact that it had ZERO electronics / computers / or any kind of fart-gay-nougat tech. You can use it for a comparison, but putting this up against today's dollars and vehicles...you are basically showing us a Big Wheel.
>get a minimum wage job and never get a raise >earn 2000$ a month >spend 1500$ a month on living expenses >save 500$ a month >become a millionaire after 30 years
Times haven't changed.
You've just gotten lazy.
Things are easier than they have ever been in human history you decadent piece of shit.
If you want to speculate that the cost of living will increase then I will in turn speculate that you're probably not going to be making minimum wage for 30 years.
speculate? the cost of living has been rising for, what, the past 70+ years straight?
it's not speculation at this point, it's simple extrapolation
the cost of living is not going to go down anytime soon so long as people are complacent
That is $20,000 in 2023
Seriously what the frick happened?
Obama.
Nothing, are you blind? The value is equal to $20,000 today. Why don't zoomers understand inflation?
ah yes I remember in 1940 when a new car cost $200
I remember in 1910 when it cost $20
dumbass
Trickle down economics.
It had no sat nav, no heated seats, no Bluetooth and no folding side mirrors. That's why
Population growth which comes with increased rates of consumption.
Yes, people will continue to idealize perpetual growth but lament it at the same time.
money printing
the central bank print money
lmao how fricking brainwashed are you?
Nixon shock. We moved off of the gold standard and onto monopoly money which inflates so people are more obligated to spend more money and it helps the rich siphon money out of the plebs more easily so we all gradually become poorer but feel richer.
israeli banking inflation + feature creep.
modern day cars are more electronics than machine at this point
That car is basically a box of metal on wheels and not much else. I believe the cheapest car in the US is a Nissan Versa for like 17k, and the tech and safety in it are leagues ahead of the 1972 shitbox.
At least you actually control and drive that car from 1972. Now it's just the car's computer doing everything.
They had Seatbelts I think, and a heater
Heater?! - KEK!
Heat was provided by a garden hose, from the tail pipe, up and into the rear quarter window!
>That car is basically a box of metal on wheels and not much else
That's all a fricking car needs to be.
>That car is basically a box of metal on wheels and not much else.
whoa who ever thought a car was just a rolling box of metal
dumbass
Ok but the 20k in today's money is still too much and OPs point falls flat.
>20k is a lot of money
What language do you speak at home?
Follow along you fricking moron.
hmm fair point
I'd rather have a box of metal on wheels than what they are selling today.
Is that using the cucked lowball boomer numbers or...
do boomers and israelites expect me to believe this just happened? it fell out of the sky one day??? how the FRICK did this happen?
Money machine goes burrrrrr. That is the one machanism behind inflation. Everything else is cope and pilpul.
It was a whole lot of things that happened gradually.
Our money isn't backed by anything physical anymore
Corporations have had regulations stripped away slowly
Hedge fund kids have raped the stock market, and decided to minmax the companies they inherited for quick profit
Clever tax fraud has meant that the upper crust doesn't have to pay taxes. At all.
Companies have paid government representatives vast sums of money to act in their best interests rather than the American people's.
I mean it's a whole lot of things, but the long and short of it is that people wanted more, so now everything is worth less.
I hate billionaires and the elite so fricking much bros. I hope that he'll is real or that aliens really are around so they can burn in hell/be left in earth to fend for themselves while we are taken to nirvana.
If the devil was real, he'd walk down the street freely, because he wouldn't be so different from you or I. So maybe the devil is real. He could be a good friend of mine.
Is this supposed to be a beatles song reference or something
You are dumb as shit.
Does she come with the car? 😉
Obviously
In 1972? Hell yeah, she came with the car. They put her in the trunk naked for you to take home. It was a better time.
Imagine the bush down there
>text is yellow
>dress is yellow
>car is blue
What are they really selling?
>teehee, oh you
At least a few people got it
You kiddies have no idea how old that joke is
oh, you!
yeah but you made 3 cents an hour
That’s only if you worked as a Janny/janitor back then
Enough to buy a day's worth of groceries and fill a whole tank of gas.
If you are a millionaire now you’re going to need to get 20x more before you die to maintain value. Lol
If you think that's crazy, go back another 50+ years and you'll be blown away
A runabout!
I'LL STEAL IT
yeah I remember my dad paid 3 grand for our mach 1
and he was a shoe salesman at the time btw
homie it’s a vega
So?
I like Vegas, too bad they all disintegrated in two years.
People made less than a dollar an hour
Only jannies made that amount
That won’t even buy a reliable used car now.
Sure it will, fren.
Just need to know what you're looking at.
It had way less features, no AC, had a MUCH shorter lifespan, required more maintenance, had terrible gas mileage, and would crumple and explode in a ball of fire if you got in a fender bender
The frick? You can easily get a reliable and lighty-used car for less than $20,000
>had terrible gas mileage,
You don't know what you're talking about.
>just $225 for a Rolex
wtf happened
Bros…
who the frick was buying 10 pounds of granulated sugar
Moonshiners
housewives
Probably
but I easily go through 20lbs putting away jelly. Not sure how much I burn through the holidays but it’s pretty obscene. Granted, I give away jelly and homemade candy during Christmas but still.
My grandma
is this not hard on his knees?
Probably
His form is pretty good, so probably not that hard. He moves his mass well.
People that cook their food and instead buying heavily processed garbage that taste like shit and are unhealthy too.
If we collectively abandoned 95% of our modern comforts, novelties, conveniences, safeties, luxuries, and technologies, we could live cheaply. But the population being much higher than it was then would probably add a lot of additional issues.
>If we collectively abandoned 95% of our modern comforts, novelties, conveniences, safeties, luxuries, and technologies, we could live cheaply.
You misspelled abolish the Federal Reserve.
>Why, when I was your age, I owned a house and had three kids. I had no debt and worked hard everyday. You kids need to stop playing video games and buying avocado toast!
Truly a better time
Why don't they just make everything cheap like this now? Everyone would like it so much better
It's called capitalism, businesses will naturally raise their prices to match the earnings of their customers. And groceries were cheap because they were being harvested by desperate Okies for 1 penny a day during the great depression.
Housing prices are blowing up due to a shortage in supply, they can't build new units fast enough and it costs more to build them due to a lack of blue collar workers (and illegal aliens)
because boomers created neo-fuedalism fueled by immigration and globalization. If you don't have an inheritance lined up you're doomed to be a 21st century techno-rentoid aka a serf.
>neo-fuedalism
Didn't people in the middleage worked less?
no they worked non stop and ate nearly nothing but bread which took all day to make.
Proof?
don't forget they had to walk 200km a day to get back home after working in the popcorn mines all day
How can you work nonstop in a farm? What about ground rest
Today i need to work 10 years to pay a house
goddamn milk was expensive as shit
j_ws
>What the frick happened?
Inflation. Was chilling over at my buddies house. We had the tv on in the background and I Robot was on. The scene where he and his boss are talking in a diner and they get a couple beers. He pays and it comes out to something like $23 for a single beer. My buddies flipped their shit until I pointed out it was the future, and until I showed them old ads from decades ago showing what things used to cost
wow that's a great story about a bunch of moronic homosexuals that no one cares about
technically it was his third beer, but same thing.
'65 invasion act courtesy of a israelite israelite and a pedocrat
>https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Wages and buying power started a long decline around 1971. Dumb zoomers think people had it great in the 1990s but they were worse off than people in the 60s in terms of buying power.
Sure but the 90s compared to now are a dream. Even 10 years ago I could have afforded a decent house in my big US city. Now I can't afford to own any property here. The last time for great opportunity was probably the 80s. My grandfather bought a house on the beach and built two more right out of the military in the 1970s. Each are at least 1.5 million a piece today.
The 90s began with a recession and crime hitting an all-time high. It's funny what nostalgia does to people.
If you want a cheap house you can buy one cheap in the middle of nowhere. It will still multiply in value if you do what your grandfather did and wait....50 years.
Beachside property can still be had for cheap, in say Atlantic City.
>The 90s began with a recession and crime hitting an all-time high. It's funny what nostalgia does to people.
its not nostalgia, it's recessions and crime today making the 90s recessions and crime look like a drop in the ocean
Why did we end the gold standard?
because it makes the prole's lives too nice
Lay off the antisemitism there buddy
Unions were very strong back then so things had to cost more to pay for bloated union member perks. Things are so much better now.
How much was the average salary?
Just think future generations are going to think it was totally amazing you could buy a house in 2023 for only $400,000
>Just think future generations are going to think it was totally amazing you could buy a house in 2023 for only $400,000
>future generations
Dude, they'll be saying that by January
They'll think it's amazing you could even buy a house at all. They'll all be renting from McRent Mart.
and they WILL be happy.
Bruh I live in shithole ultra rural Eastern Kentucky and people are starting to try to sell shit houses and a few acres for 500k plus.
this is almost entirely caused by availability of financing and a host of laws that allow banks to profitably lend far more money than they should for collateralized loans like cars and houses.
a modern new car in 2023 should cost between 16 and 27k for a civic -> accord -> high trim variants of either. we are where we are today because of 2008.
All of us could live well off fulfilled lives
but you'd rather have a few dozen people be billionaires instead
He's not wrong, it's just that no one has come even remotely close to a system to balance it out that doesn't make it 100x worse and render the place a 2nd world shitheap.
billionaires a symptom of the best system we've been able to come up with, not the cause of scarcity and competition with each other
>we want to lick billionaire boots
the best I can describe it is "not my problem"
we already have billionaires dodging taxes like the panama papers, any drastic implementation of socialism or whatever will compound the problem, billionaires keep and exploit the loopholes now that they've laid their roots, and everyone underneath them will have to pay up. We didn't stop them when we had the chance, we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot doing so now, and unfortunately reaches the same conclusion
Mmm... Ok. Well, for one, the car you are showing is a Ford Pinto, which came with a self rupturing fuel tank that was just behind a 'breach-loader' of a rear bumper. This thing almost exploded if you just hit a speed bump!
This is also not mentioning the fact that it had ZERO electronics / computers / or any kind of fart-gay-nougat tech. You can use it for a comparison, but putting this up against today's dollars and vehicles...you are basically showing us a Big Wheel.
>get a minimum wage job and never get a raise
>earn 2000$ a month
>spend 1500$ a month on living expenses
>save 500$ a month
>become a millionaire after 30 years
Times haven't changed.
You've just gotten lazy.
Things are easier than they have ever been in human history you decadent piece of shit.
you would only become a millionaire after 30 years if cost of living doesn't increase at all during that time (pro-tip: it will)
You have billions of something so you must be rich, i have billions of bugs in my house.
If you want to speculate that the cost of living will increase then I will in turn speculate that you're probably not going to be making minimum wage for 30 years.
speculate? the cost of living has been rising for, what, the past 70+ years straight?
it's not speculation at this point, it's simple extrapolation
the cost of living is not going to go down anytime soon so long as people are complacent