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1950s

1 Income 2 Cars Man, Wife, 2.7 kids Nice 4 bedroom home with garage 2 or more Family vacations per year Possibly a 2nd home or Camp Whole Life Insurance policies Pension Healthcare

$173K sounds realistic, don't forget what income tax will do to this number.

1950s 1 Income 2 Cars Man, Wife, 2.7 kids Nice 4 bedroom home with garage 2 or more Family vacations per year Possibly a 2nd home or Camp Whole Life Insurance policies Pension Healthcare $173K sounds realistic, don't forget what income tax will do to this number.

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[–] • 3 pts

Yes.

Fiat currency will continue to inflate until its eventual collapse. Or it will be placed back on the gold standard (or another standard that can back it.)

Those in power, jews or shabbos goys paid by jews, will continue to let it inflate. Nothing will be done to stop inflation, because nothing can be done to stop inflation on a debt based economy using a fiat currency.

Every fiat currency has eventually collapsed.

[–] • 1 pt

By design. Taxation is the theft of earnings. Inflation is the theft of wealth. They will stop at nothing to steal everything on this planet.

They will then replace fiat with digital currency for even greater control over the masses.

[–] • 2 pts

Easily. If not more.

Together my wife and I bring home around $400k/year and we're just over the hump from barely making it. We own a house and have two kids. It doesn't help that we live in Marin County (where everything is ridiculously expensive) but we'll be moving when my son finishes high school.

Honestly I'd say that to live in a metropolitan area a family needs about $300k/yr to be truly "comfortable". And by "comfortable" I mean not having real monetary worries.

[–] • 1 pt

Congratulations on your success! I broke through the $500K barrier once in my life, back in 2005. What a year that was! I was proud as a peacock. I live in a rural area, so money goes far.

My frugal Yankee dad had a saying - "It's not necessarily how much you make, it's what you do with it".

[–] • 1 pt

Definitely sounds about right. The amount I pay in taxes is insane. I have two jobs and supposedly make decent money but it doesn't feel like it. I will likely never own a house because I refuse to pay as much as they are asking and I don't know that I could talk my bf into owning one with me. Neither of us have any debt and really don't want it, even for a house. I also don't want to stay out here forever. The writing has been on the wall for a while.

I have savings for myself and my cats for emergencies but a decent emergency would wipe that out. I lost my first 401k in a divorce so I only have one from my current regular job. I don't expect to see a penny if the fortune I have paid into social security since I was 14.

Groceries have gone up, rent has gone up, I assume most other stuff too. I just hide out in my apartment and lose myself to work and books and games.

[–] • 0 pt

Plan to buy something in 2026

[–] • 0 pt

I just hide out in my apartment and lose myself to work and books and games.

Kick your BF squarely in the ass. Time is wasting. Your rent could be paying a big chunk of the mortgage, BF can make up the difference. Instead of killing time, you could be spending that time making a home of your new house, planning your future, making it happen and sharing the human experience of home and family with your BF. Don't wait too long, women are on the clock if they ever want to have children. Guys need to be reminded.

[–] • 1 pt

I'm 45. I never wanted or had kids. I know that makes me a failure on poal but I am still glad I never had them. I have plenty of reasons and so does my bf for never having had them. I don't want an immense amount of debt trapping me. I don't want to trap him either.

[–] • 0 pt

I thought you were younger, lol!. As long as you have what you want and you're happy where you're going, who's to argue. I was getting divorced when I was 45 so I shouldn't even be giving advice.

[–] • 1 pt

I will say that it will really depend on where you live and your commensurate lifestyle as it comes to how 173k will 'pad.' That said, the tax on that number is incredible.

[–] • 1 pt

And lately we have people telling us that the retirement age should be abolished.

[–] • 0 pt

Did families typically have two cars in the 50s?

[–] • 0 pt

Early 50s, mostly not, many rural women didn't drive. Late 50's it was becoming more popular, wives were shuttling the kids around during the day and shopping, some women were working jobs too. I dunno % haves vs % have nots, but the trend had started. 3 of my aunts had their own cars and day jobs + 2 had kids by 1960. One aunt didn't drive plus my mom didn't drive ... up here in the sticks.

[–] • 0 pt

Interesting.. I didn't think the two car family with women working started until the late 70s or 80s.

[–] • 1 pt

I was there in the '60s and saw most families here had 2 cars. I had to ride to 4H, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and sports with friends whose moms had cars. My family only had one, mom never learned to drive. I grew up in the sticks, probably even more cars elsewhere.