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1. ianferrel ◴[] No.44076851[source]
I like this article. I think it's a little unrealistic in many ways, but it's good to consider that a life does not require extravagance. However:

>often enough, the “boomers” are the scapegoat; the ones who lived their American Dreams and, as the allegations go, pulled up the ladder behind them as they tasted their successes.

>They’d merely need to content themselves with a manner of living that would be more in line with that of their own great-grandfathers

The problem isn't that we can affordably live like our great-grandparents. It's that we can't affordably live like our parents and grandparents did.