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It really does blow my mind sometimes that there was an era of such prosperity that a family of working class plebs could afford multiple cars, a house, and a boat.

The wealth of the boomer generation honestly amazes me. I hear all the time about old people just casually buying and selling 300k plots of land in the States. The fucking killdozer guy constantly bought and sold land around his town for 30-50k just because he fucking could, with money he got from running a business out of a rural area. I'm sat here wondering what their secret was to this incredible wealth and the honest answer is that it's just the time period and demographics. I'm at the point where I doubt I could achieve any independence from the rentoid system with just my 9-5.

My only desire is to live in a place that I can't get kicked out from at any moment, or a place where I'm not at the mercy of some idiot in the building leaving a stove on or plugging something into an outlet wrong and burning everything down.