And yet over this same period I watched a poor immigrant man and his wife get a rusty pickup, a used lawnmower and a weedeater. They and their toddler kid would go from yard to yard.
He’d do most of the work, she’d do a little and they’d keep track of Junior.
He barely wrote any english but he worked.
Over time he bought a better truck, a good truck, he bought better and faster mowers. Soon he had guys working for him .
There is a moral here, the same as my anscestors taught me, work pays. He improved in the middle of this “bad economy”.
Bet you anything he is not paying taxes. To the state, he is a criminal.