I don’t think dying at 54 is ideal…
Look at this guy with his “hopes” for a “future”
This is hyperbole
They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn’t care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.
Which all would be lovely and true if they were American.
They’re not.
It’s almost like countries other than the United States exist…
Because, of course, everyone on the planet is either American or Vietnamese.
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling “baby killer”. Most occur in U.S. civilian airports, usually San Francisco International, as GIs returned from the war zone in their uniforms.
No unambiguous documented incident of this behavior has ever surfaced, despite repeated and concerted efforts to uncover them.
I don’t think he was talking about the protestors…
Never heard an old black man say “I wish things were like they were back in the 50s.”
Nope nor a dirt poor white person either. Never forget, it’s all about the money and far less than the color of your skin.
The ideal life is to be born a multi-millionaire, then earn billions by exploiting workers
I always thought I would have made a good trust fund baby.
I’d rather be born a billionaire so I don’t have to do shit
could you live with yourself though?
If I was born rich, I’d probably have no empathy either.
How are you supposed to develop it?
NOT philosophy, that’s for sure.
I am so tired of people presuming that US’s economic history is somehow universal.
This comment section is kind of hysterical. Some people saying “STOP IT ALWAYS BEING ABOUT AMERICA” and other people going “Vietnam because America” and I’m here as a Canadian like
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And before you ask, yes. The person who tweeted that is Canadian.
i am here like ok then. go drink your maple syrup i guess. sorry i just don’t understand what you are trying to convey.
My point is that you immediately went “Not all countries had the economy of America” but this isn’t about America and I find that both funny and sad.
Everyone instantly goes to pointing fingers and saying “AMERICAN” and in doing so effectively treat Canada like it doesn’t exist. Either Americans are too bought into (whether they realize it or not) American Exceptionalism or foreigners are too focused on them because they’re loud as hell.
ok hold on imma fix my comment, so its correct and respects the first worlder outlook on geography.
The bio of old television personalities is always that they took a wrong turn into the BBC reception and got hired on the spot.
The ideal life is dying when you’re only 54? That’s pretty bleak!
Fuck I hope not. I’m 54 now.
Longer than I expect to live
But probably true!
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
Countries other than the United States exist and my country was the one people ran away to in order to avoid the draft. Also the same country of the person who posted this.
Also literally any day could be the one the Bomb dropped. It’s easy to forget how close we came, or how fucking terrifying it was that you had no way of knowing.
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with being born after the draft became less used and I’m now old enough to not qualify for the draft anymore. Life is pretty good.
My dad bought about a third of an acre of waterfront property in the 80s with a small cottage on it that we added to. He paid something like $50,000. Guess what a small waterfront property is worth now?
No one gonna bite? Ok, I’ll go first… One million dollars!
For some my uncle and my dad did these things but also died prematurely from health complications related to Vietnam
Deserved it
You do understand that US was drafting?
Oh look, it’s a tankie fuckwit! How does it feel to be a scurge on society, your family, and to have dropped out of primary school?
It feels great, thanks for asking! I love holding viewpoints that are “dangerous” but liberals agree with 4 years later (and pretend they held all along)
Life for seniors is ok. About to get a tax break on SS benefits. Would be 78 this year. Possible to get another 12 years of senior benefits. Trump was born that year, so things can work out past 2001.
You have to be at least middle class and “white”/seen as the dominant demographic for this to work out. Just like every other place and time period.
middle class constraint can be relaxed for hunter-gatherer societies.
Could one feasibly claim that the less hunter-gatherer we are, the less egalitarian we are, societally?
So you wouldn’t even live to be 60?
Impress them with a firm handshake.
My dad was born in 1947. He died a year ago. Lived in my basement for 3 years toward the end, we converted it to a “in-law” suite. Probably spent most of his money on medical bills though because he had an accident that paralyzed half his body.
Anyhow he worked the same job his entire life only worked his way up to middle management at a factory. Prided himself in slacking off his entire career and still did better than I do now and I have to work much harder and have my spouse be employed to pull in what he did alone half-assing it.
So it was different for sure, middle-class was easily achieved if you were a white male. I’d almost say if you were poor you just got very unlucky, were a single mom, or a minority. If you were a white male, you’d really have to be dealt a bad hand in life to not be middle-class.
