Posted on 11/29/2019 9:11:07 AM PST by PeteePie
And smoked like chimneys.
The Atlantic?
Why bother to click the link?
You’ll encounter “liberal logic” which has to be among the top five oxymorons.
Cigarettes?
>>> … eat and exercise the same amount …
I strongly question this statement, and thus the story is bunk.
Same here. Oddly enough, however, I’m only 39 now (and have been for some time).
Obesity is a life style choice just like cigarette smoking.
“Tuition adjusting for inflation was vastly cheaper in the 70s than it is now.
Houses as measured by % of average wages were also significantly cheaper than they are now.”
Yep, The minimum wage I earned in 1978 is about $14.50 an hour today based upon cpi inflation calculator.
My neighbor was a Monkey Ward manager and he offered me a job in 1980 working in the local warehouse-a flunky job. $6.75 hour plus full health, life and dental insurance and a small pension plan.
I believe that 6.75 is equal to about $22-23.00 hr today.
I declined and went onto college.
The young folks do have it rougher. I feel for them.
When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80s, my parents (Depression era) would NOT allow us to eat unless we were seated at a table, looked presentable, had washed, and had said grace.
One of my father’s biggest pet peeves was seeing people walking around and eating.
Such attitudes have completely disappeared from society.
Wait a second... do you play violin, and have a vault in your basement? ;^)
Also, home wasn’t filled with the easy distraction of 2000 channels and unlimited entertainment options from the internet.
Lots of time was spent outdoors exercising, because what else did you have to do?
What I see now in supermarkets (and in some big box stores like Home Depot) is these electric carts - sort of like mini golf carts - that you can sit in and ride around the store in.
I have actually seen able bodied adults walking from the parking lot only to sit in one those things and ride around inside the store. Yes, they tend to be on the obese side.
I'm thinking if somebody was truly disabled, they would have their own wheelchair to ride around the store in? Am I being too presumptive here? I know that these motor scooters were non existent when I was growing up. And when my father played golf out on the public course, he'd walk from hole to hole and I never once saw him in a golf cart - even though they were available at the time. Now he's close to 90 and still gets around without any motorized assistance.
Back then you still had to dance with a chick to get sex.
while cleaning out my deceased mother's things, I came across a bill from the hospital for the birth of my oldest sister (1955). $250 for 7 day stay in hospital, including attending doctor and anesthesiologist, and some jaundice treatment for the baby.
We estimate Dad made about $5000/year as a young middle manager at a local industrial plant, which was also just about the median income of the USA at that time also. So, it cost Dad 5% of his annual salary for him and mom to have a child. Seems reasonable to me. That is absolutely impossible today.
I would make it so that you couldn’t access the candy aisle with an electric cart.
“Yeah, I remember how all those great jobs were available during the Carter years.”
Yeh, and 18% interest rate on mortgages.
who can afford to hire a graduate with a worthless degree .. who can’t do a damn thing, productively-speaking...
and knows nothing about the business?
students who want to get jobs upon graduation are well advised to learn things that will help make them employable.
engineering, science, nursing, auto mechanics, computers, other trades skills....
a student who majors in humanities or art or music or social science or literature will gain insights about history and life, yes, and these can be wonderful .and I encourage every student to take some classes like these...but as majors....not...since they are mostly not what the job market is looking for
just saying. you pretty much can get the results you prepare for. Prepare to be employable and you will probably get a good job. prepare to serve hamburgers in the drive-thru lane and you will probably serve big Macs. It is still an honest and very honorable job, to be sure, but it won’t make you rich.. and complaining about it won’t get ya anywhere, either.
just saying
“So, it cost Dad 5% of his annual salary for him and mom to have a child”
I work in employee benefits.
The average health insurance family plan today is $24-30k per year. I have spouses, mostly wives working fairly decent jobs and their entire paycheck just goes to pay the health insurance. They do it because in many cases the husbands job does not have health insurance.
I see it my business. 35-40% of employees are doing really well. The other 55-60% are treading water and voting democrat/Bernie
When automation hits we are in serious trouble.
Neither party seems to care.
If anything people are exercising more than they did in the 80’s, I see people out jogging all the time. It’s the food, it’s almost impossible to find something that isn’t processed and full of sugar. Everything is loaded with calories. We’ve also been fed this line that you can exercise fat away, you can’t, you have to control food intake to control weight. Exercise is a good thing but for weight loss it’s like trying to empty a bathtub with a teaspoon, you’ve got to stop filling it up first.
I can relate to Steve.
You can’t outrun a bad diet.
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