Baby Boomers had it easier — in lart thanks to less student debt

Jan 29, 2023 9:16 PM

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabelcontreras/2021/12/17/millennials-and-gen-xers-are-not-crazy--baby-boomers-had-it-easier-financially-and-a-big-reason-is-student-debt/

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Baby boomers were also children of parents raised during the Great Depression, so were more averse to borrowing.

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Harvard Law is 325k for a degree, professors make 400k for a few hours per week, wonder why your loans are so big? Last year is padding.

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It’s the university presidents and senior college admin. Their pay has skyrocketed over the last 40 years, unlike most college lecturers.

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Wow, it's almost like the things we've been saying for years were like, true, or something... crazy.

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yeah, way to go Forbes with the hard-hitting investigative journalism

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Right? I didn’t need this article to tell me what I already knew.

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ya, we just have been getting gaslit on a societal/national scale for literally our entire lives.

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"New study"? You mean you did some basic arithmetic with publicly available statistics?

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And came to the same conclusion everyone else came to 2 decades ago.

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That ain’t the only reason.

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this article is to draw the focus away from cost of living which is more like 80% of the reason 20% is student debt.

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So us Gen Xers weren’t slackers after all? I knew it!

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Worse, Boomers crowded out the job market despite often being less educated. Gen-X were screwed over by Boomers big time.

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I don’t see Isabel Contreras lasting long at Forbes with articles like this.

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Pssst, while correct, its just one of a multitude of factors

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YAAAA OOOHHHHKAAAYY College is the reason everyone who didn't go to college is starving and fucking poor. nice deflection oligarch assholes

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(In lart...is that the movie mall cop played by the guy from King of Queens?)

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The cost of education has increased 5x inflation the past 50 years for the same product. maybe we should focus on fixing that.

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Let’s not forget about rent being way more than a mortgage. And home prices being insane.

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Shit is getting so bad, even Forbes is saying, "Yeah, it might be a little rough down there. They're still lazy thou."

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Student loans are just as predatory as the vile housing loans that caused the 2008 crash

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“I paid my college waitin’ tables over the summer! Cost me a whopping $300 a semester.”

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Let's not forget increased rent and prices everywhere while companies don't offer much of a raise

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Wages have not kept pace with the cost of living. Do the math.

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yes AND tuition has increased far more than mere inflation. Largely due to middle management expansion.

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The boomers climbed the ladder, then cut the rungs off below them so nobody else could make the climb.

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Boomers were also the last generation to have decent trades taught as part of high school, before the move to for-profits like DeVry

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Also: Xers were the first gen that had to get their start financially with a credit score being a thing. That fucked everyone after.

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The only reason we didn't have it worse is the new market of tech.

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Credit scores made it stupid simple to get free money - 0% APR on everything from furniture to tires to car repairs - if you play their game

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the problem comes when people don't understand how to play the game by their rules

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That's the most dumbfuck boomer shit I've read in a while.

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yeah, well, i'm a millennial. I learned how to play their game by their rules and used it to my advantage. It's literally free money.

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but i get it. There's so many people that got fucked because they didn't know they were even playing a game.

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go on lay out a quick run down? does it require seed money cus if so then there it is.

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Crazy how they keep rediscovering this every few months

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Forbes is for boomers I think.

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And crazy how there's always a few things idiots at the bottom of the post saying THEY DID IT so others can too, just dont be lazy etc

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It's like "it's obvious, but they still don't acknowledge it... maybe one more study will do it!" as if the problem wasn't shit for brains.⤵

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⤷ Selfishness approaching narcissism, conflict of interest, lack of perspective, decades of consuming almost entirely propaganda and lead...

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This is the difference

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Yes, computers made it easier to work twice as hard ?

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Let me guess: Nixon and Reagan?

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Ronald Wilson Reagan, ole 666.... At work destroying the world...

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Oh look. Reaganomics.

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"fun" fact the creator of trickle down economics is quoted as saying "the only thing he took was the name" when talking about Reagan.

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Teaching has not benefited much from info age productivity gains. This graph explains the real problem IMO

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So, credit scores? What's special about 1973?

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The war started on US citizens about 2 years before that. Most graphs flat line / reverse trend at 71.

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Target enough voters and you can win elections easier. Remove enough adults from the pop and you get stagnation and inflation to campaign on

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Also, the cost of things. I don’t care what the interest rate was. You could buy a house for $30k instead of $1,000,000. So fuck you.

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I note you said “you could buy” and now you are claiming “your parents actually did buy.” v

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While u r right that $ of house is CRAZY compared to then, those 20%+ interest rates where a huge kick in the face of middle class and lower

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Prime rate was 14% when I bought my first house at 22 as a 1964 born “boomer” for $172k. Graduated to deep recession and 8 yrs of Reagan.

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They'll just say "inflation" in the same way they say "free market" like aha I said it all things were equal and laws of nature not meeeee.

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That’s just delusional. If you want to make a point, objective reality works pretty well.

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What about it is delusional?

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Where in your fantasy world was US min wage ever $33? $3.35 per hour was the min wage for yrs. I worked 38 hr/wk & never took home >$96/wk.

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W/o a partial scholarship and my parent’s assistance, I could never have dreamed of college. Went to a low cost in-state public school.

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A house was $30k bought by a parent that is now a million USD. That’s not how real estate works. If it was you’d be buying $30k shitholes.

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I am a boomer; built my house 33 yrs ago. Cost me $172K, paid 6x that in mortgage payments, $100k+ in property tax. Today it’s worth $450k.

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I’ve also put in $80K of new windows, two new roofs, and $150K of renovations. That’s the reality of home ownership. They go up in value.

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My parents (boomers) bought a house for $30k, it sold many years ago for over $1m. That $1m is average for a house where I live

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Man, that one annoys me so much. Keep hearing older family talk about how it's "so much easier" to buy a house these days than when they

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a Gen Xer taught me that credit scores didn't exist before 1989 which is.. mind blowing itself

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You still had to build your credit as when you applied for a CC you had to list other loans & creditors to be able to get one.Lots more info

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first started out. Had an older family member literally jump from "man, interest rates are so low, your generation has it so good when

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buying homes" to "yeah, my kid isn't able to afford a home, you know how expensive they are now" without registering for even a moment

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the contradiction. How do you rationally talk to someone like that? :/

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Lead poisoning

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The point is that you can qualify for a bigger loan when rates are low. That’s actually how it works.

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...? Not in my experience, and I own a home. More cost = more deposit required = it doesn't matter what rates are, you're not qualified

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You mean down payment? There are 200+ mortgage lenders now, with wide range of options. At lower interest rates, you can prequalify for more

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Never seen a mortgage company say "oh hey, rates are low, so we'll lower your required deposit", but maybe just different experiences?

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We don’t have student debt issues in Australia but the millennials will never be able to afford to buy a house. Why? Tax breaks for property

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They will have to do what every previous generation did, buy a tiny crap place for more they can afford and look smart when values go up!

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Long term prices almost always go up, exceptions Detroit, killer hot climates, epic drought areas

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Maybe that includes all of Australia

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Investment which encourages property speculation and leads to a “too big to fall” situation where addressing it will crash the market

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If the truth can destroy it, it deserves to be destroyed

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And now it's so embedded that removing it is an instant political death wish.

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Yep.. those fully leveraged with 20 investment properties would go broke

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There are issues, such as CPI increases and it counting as a debt when looking for home loans.

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... and everyone seems to want to live within 5 klicks of a CBD.

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Possibly because of convenience and the fact public transport is terrible.

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It's nowhere near as bad but HECS debt is a thing, I love the fact that it used to come out of your wage at like 80k but now it's like 40

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Basically the government confirming the wages are shit even for grads and that they have to claw back the money some how

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Yeh that’s fair but it’s not debilitating like in the US

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Oh absolutely they have it much much much worse

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USofA depends in part on if private University or State Collage, which is where they used to earn 'free' degrees. Uni was always big $$...

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And as with Oz Uni, private Uni in US comes with the school ties advantage when applying for a position. Oz needs some state Uni\college...

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Actually Oz needs to stop funding pvt high schools as well as build pubilc tertiary schools to compete with the pvt sector.

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