Like most people, boomers don't understand how they had it better than probably any generation in the history of the United States. They were raised by parents that just came out of WWII, and wages were rising rapidly. Most factories in Europe had been bombed out by the war while the US was left unscathed. That left US corporations without European competitors in the world market, and the US labor base was limited so wages rose dramatically.
That's why the 1950's was an economic boom era for the US, and why so many old people remember them fondly. Corporations could charge what they wanted in Europe for every good or service they provided, and Europe had to borrow the money from the US banksters to buy everything they needed to rebuild, so US companies were making money hand over fist, and so were American workers.
After Europe was rebuilt our corporations, now addicted to the high profits, began looking for ways to keep their profits while now having to compete against newly rebuilt European competitors. They looked at the high price of labor and decided they needed to increase the labor supply in order to cut wages. They did this in two ways initially, first by supporting the women's lib movement that had begun in the 1920's but they got behind it in the 1960's to push more women into the labor force. The other way was the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, by which they could import cheap labor from all over the world.
All that did lower wages, but not satisfied they began looking overseas and the slave labor in China was particularly appealing to them. So they got Nixon to open trade with China, and give them most favorable trade status so the corporations could move their production to China and not have to pay tariffs to bring those products back to the US. This of course led to other favorable trade agreements with other countries with cheap labor, where corporations could move to.
But it didn't stop there. Some industries weren't so easy to move off shore, so they got the government to start issuing massive amounts of H2B work visas to import more foreign labor to the US. You guys in the computer and tech industries know exactly what I'm talking about. Now they also import other engineers and specialty skilled workers to compete directly with the US middle class in their own country.
So yes, it's a lot harder now than it was post WWII and that is by design. They want you working as hard as possible for as little as possible to maintain unrealistically high profits for the .0001 percent.
There's a reason your life is hard, and all you have to do is look how our government is controlled by the banksters and their corporations. And that's why the Founding Fathers of the United States did not allow corporations to exist in the US following the American Revolution - they just had the same type of experience (on a much smaller scale) with the East India Company that was supported and subsidized by the British government. But they didn't teach you that in American History, did they? They didn't teach it to the boomers either.
Most boomers have no idea why they had it so good, nor do they understand the world you now have to deal with. It's sad that people don't educate themselves to understand the world around them, but they don't. They just take what they were taught in school at face value. But I can tell you from experience, the best education you will ever get is the one you give yourself. The boomers can't help you because they don't live in, nor do they understand, the world you are navigating - hell, they didn't even understand the world they were navigating.
Until we as a nation remove the corporations and banksters that control our government, it will only get harder and you will be homeless in the land your forefathers conquered.
Learn the difference between free markets and capitalism; they're not the same. Our Founding Fathers understood economics. Time we learned it too.
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