The Difference between a 23YO American in 1980, and a 23YO American in 2025

[PATRICK]

64. One impoverishing fad after another

Such as getting the "easy to get" jobs through middlemen services that took at least a third of the salary you would normally have received as a full time employee. Disposable, farm system "temps" always pressured to take the worst assignments with the crummier benefits of the middlemen. Security guards who dropped out faster than autumn leaves left "opportunities" to work round the clock for days for the sleep deprived remnant. My wife finally got decent employment at a student loan corp(se) and it blew itself up with corruption. Walmart would routinely fire workers and managers about to get some seniority advancements. It seems no one even discusses the "poverty limit" wage

I finally made it into the USPS which, compared to the autoworkers and other powerful union jobs, went from backwater to treadwater to among the last standing regarding decent wages and benefits. I think ALL benefits and work standards originate from unions. I remember Reagan making sure we ALSO paid into SS besides our pension. Attacks were made on our Thrift Plan under Bush. Everything is against us under the dictator. We have suffered endless attacks(despite the popular support) and all the governing bodies(both parties) even if loyal to the service believe in idiotic and destructive policies like privatization. Simple math seems to escape American business when it comes to resenting workers and consumers and implementing technology. They hire vicious headhunters to suppress unions. They serve the stock market game.

Recreating the Desolation of Smaug and waiting for the dragon to go to sleep?