This one claims her mother's starting salary as a bank teller in 1980 was $36,000/year. (The video is linked in the article.)
In what universe did a bank pay a teller that much money 43 years ago?
People who were alive in 1980 are disputing her numbers in the Yahoo comments.
Thought some of you might like to weigh in here on FR.
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No, no you idiot, entry-level bank tellers did NOT pull in $36,000 a year. Good Lord.
Some of these young dumbfucks think that the world began when they were born.
Stupid: The true pandemic.
Cat says her mother made $36,000 a year as an entry-level bank teller in 1980.
So, Cat was born in 2002 and her mom would have been born circa 1961, meaning mom was 41 at the time she had Cat.
If all this is true, Cat should e thankful her mom didn't abort her out of fear of Downs Syndrome, and/or other problems with advanced age pregnancies.
Sometimes people confuse education with intelligence. You can have a degree and still be a full blown idiot.
Obviously she never lived through the Jimmy Carter years.
Adjusted for inflation the entry-level salary in 1982 — about $33,700 — was closer to $102,200 in today’s dollars.
The wisdom of a college strikes again another Jay walker.
Uneducated ignorant blowhard
$36,000/year as a bank teller invalidates any further commentary in this piece. Steaming pile of BS.
If only she had taken to reading.....
...the facts. Instead of going to TikTok, and "preaching" something she knows nothing about.
"“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.” — John Heywood
Yes. Ridiculous. She needs to retake history. We had worse inflation than this in the 70s. Much worse unemployment. Real wages have not gone down. I will grant you that real wages haven’t increased though. The main reasons for that are women entering the workforce and immigration. Also, taxes are higher for the middle class. I blame all those problems on the government.
Let’s assume that us boomers did, in fact, make more money in 1980 adjusted for inflation than recent college grads. How many of us graduated with STEM degrees back then as compared to the Gen Z grads? I don’t recall very many people graduating back then with degrees in women’s’ studies, LGBTQ+ studies, afro studies etc. And how many of us boomers stayed loyal to our employers, worked overtime, and went the extra mile as we worked our way up the pays scale over many years as opposed to Gen Z who in my experience barely perform at the most minimal level that allows them to keep their job (”silent quitting”), and often change jobs multiple times in relatively short periods of time.
Thank you for the responses!