1950s Kids Treated As Another Species

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As many of my subscribers know, this is a clip from my 6 part PBS documentary series, making sense of the 60s. I loved talking with experts and authors and parents who raise kids at the time where I was a kid. I learned a lot. Most of this section is about the experience that parents had in white middle-class America. Another section of my documentary deals with the experience that black parents and black kids had.

A quote from Hesiod, 8th Century BC “I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint"
#1950s #babyboomers #suburbs #nuclearfamily #

David Hoffman

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I'm about to start a part time job paying $20 per hour. My Grandma had started talking to me about how I'll be making double what she was when she started working. I went and converted that $10 per hour she was making back when she started to today's money. Turns out, her $10 per hour back then equates to approximately $46 dollars per hour today. She genuinely refused to believe that to be true. I tried to tell her that just because the number looks big doesn't mean the buying power is the same.

xaviertillie

In the 2000s, we've learned that if you get up and put in a good day's work, you get assigned more work

Mickle-daPickl

Now these same children are complaining that their children don't work enough because they can't afford a house that costs a lifetime of salary.

LeonMRr

I’ve learned as a 90s kid, that if you get up and do a good days work… You’ll barely make enough to feed yourself after paying bills

jkarnold

Gotta say, I loved staying late, coming in early, working holidays, and picking up shifts. My managers loved it so much that they even offered me a 5¢ raise...I left.

cosbyfish

I tried that, but instead of a promotion or raise, I got pizza parties. "You went above and beyond this year, but that was my expectation for you, so you didn't exceed expectations expectations, so you're not getting a raise."

ArsenalofMikeocracy

I learned that putting in 50 hours a week and working hard and kissing ass only got me laid off

rhadamesperez

We found out in the 2000s that if you got up in the morning and did a good day's work, things got worse. Your earnings stayed the same, costs of basic living increased, house prices became unaffordable and in the coming twenty years that's the trajectory things would continue and it has. No wonder so many people have decided the bare minimum is good enough. Who wants to put in increasing effort for increasing diminishing returns as you get older?

loganblackwood

I've been alive 46 I've worked full time for 30 of those years I've only ever had one promotion. Promotions aren't given out anymore. Neither are raises

michaelfriscia

In the 2000s, we learned that if you worked full-time, and never got sick, you could juuuust barely afford food AND rent, assuming you had a reliable roommate. God help you if you got sick or your car broke down. And *forget* buying a home or retirement...

alden

Back when the gas station assist manager had a 4 bedroom house, a stay at home wife, 4 kids, a car, and could afford healthcare.

franciscoreyes

It would be better for the country if corporations weren’t buying up the available housing. This is happening all over the United States. If this were the case when my husband and I were young, we would never have been able to afford a home.
My kids have several jobs and are having a hard time making ends meet. Most of the poorer people that I know are hard working but still can’t get ahead.
Something like 14 families own 40 percent of all the wealth. That’s our problem, not that young people aren’t working.

EatTheBilliomaires

“I sold my entire life to a massive corporation and all I got was end-of-quarter pizza parties”

HalFromTartary

I learned being the hardest worker at my job, meant everyone else could sit around and do nothing while you got assigned more work and then come to find out their wage was higher than yours and every request for a pay raise got denied. I put in a 2 week notice and THEN they tried offering me a manager position because they couldn’t afford to lose me. Yea no thanks. It only took me raising hell before they tried to treat me right.

envixousenvixous

I worked 7 days a week for the entirety of last year between 2 jobs. Never saw ANY improvement, mental health declined, physical health declined, lost a shit load of weight when I didn't have a lot to lose.... the world is different now

Dave-hr