This guy gets it. ^^^^
It's really is that simple.
It's not how much you make, it's the purchasing power of that amount.
And it really is that simple.
My first job I got paid $3.35 an hour. Seems like slave wages! How did I survive?
Stamp cost .18 cents.
Gas cost $1.20 a gallon
New cars cost $6-10k
A nice house might set you back $50k
Movie tickets were $3
Could get a pair of Levis for $15 (Wranglers/Lees for much less)
Pair of Nikes were $20 (and couldn't afford them)
If I could scrape together $20 I could take my girlfriend to dinner and a movie and have some pocket change left over.
I thought then that if I could ever get to where I made 20-30k a year I'd be set for life. Rich, I tell ya.
It's all relative -- something these idiots just can't understand.