48/ You're 18 months in. Corn is coming up. Corn worms got half of it, but you still clear $20 selling it to the general store - and keep enough to get you through the winter, and plant in spring. Teeth are getting a bit loose bc of nutritional problems. Blacksmith pulls 2.
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49/ Another winter spent splitting wood for neighbors for pay, and sawing wood to make your own house. That $20 is mostly gone: bought a saw, a pail, a froe, some candles, 10 lbs of nails. Spring comes. Rent the ox and plow again. $20 all gone. Plant your seed corn.
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50/ Lather, rinse, repeat. After 5 years of 60 hour work weeks, you have 15 acres, a well, a 1 room house, and three pigs. Your standard of living is objectively 2% of what a modern bus driver has.
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51/ FAST FORWARD 170 years.
@Logo_Daedalus uses his pocket supercomputer to bitch and moan that "the boomers stole all the land and machines and jobs from us - every other generation had it so easy. We've got it so hard." 22 NEETs hit the "like" button. LIFE IS SO HARD, YO!!!4 replies 3 retweets 47 likesShow this thread -
52/ For folks who want to see how their lot in life compares to previous generations, I recommend picking up the Little House on the Prairie books. (a) they're an awesome read, (b) if you strip away the rose-tinted glasses, you realize that life was HARD.
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53/ And, recall, this is a true story set in the most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. People were doing everything they could to get the opportunity to work 60 hrs/week to clear fields, raise corn with their own hands, etc. ...because every other option was worse.
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55/ This is EXACTLY the problem. These "everything was stolen from us" folks use screencaps of 1950s advertising to show how things "were" and what was "taken" from them. You think every single guy in 1950 had a hot blond wife, a red corvette, a ....?https://twitter.com/Advanced_COBOL/status/1109090068441034752 …
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56/ Hard work and long hours are part of the secret. Two years ago I worked for 6 months on a gig. 12 hour days + 3 hour commute. Alarm clock at 4:10 am, back home at 7:30pm. Every Sunday I worked a side job for 8-10 hours. 85 hour weeks. https://twitter.com/BrianEr32944716/status/1109091414347055105 …
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Replying to @MorlockP @Logo_Daedalus
Okay I finally need to follow this account. (Well done on your debt.)
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