We're interviewing young attorneys and I was not only confronted with Cornell a Law School Grad., but he had been an undergraduate at Berkely. The latter meant people on this board had a better chance at getting a job offer and my liberal, ultra liberal partner was told I would not work with or train him under any circumstance.
I did have an eye opening (for both of us) conversation with him before we both tacitly agreed he didn't want to work for me, and I felt the same. We discussed the shutdown, the economy, etc. and then he forgave me for not understanding how much harder it was for people like him, than it was for people like me back in the day.
His argument was high gas prices: Regular is $2.87 around here; interest rates which are now under 6% on a 30-year fixed and were about 6.5% in June 2025; minimum wage which is $15.00 an hour here; and unemployment, which was 4.1% in June. I laughed. Not a fake forced one, but an outburst of guffaws and then told him the following: in June 1982, gas was $1.25 a gallon; mortgage rates in June 1982 were 16.75%; the $3.00 an hour minimum wage in June 1982; and the unemployment rate in June of 1982 of 10.8%.
I looked at him and said what the fuck are you talking about? Just another fucking pussy. Life was harder and much more expensive back then. It seems worse to the young because they are ignorant, poorly educated, lazy, jealous and unwilling to accept fact as truth.
Take home pay for an hour of minimum wage work today buys four gallons of gas, when it bought 2 in 1982. The unemployment rate was 2.5 times higher in 1982. The minimum wage here is 5x higher than in 1982 and mortgage rates were three times higher, yet to read g=fake left-wing news, one would think the opposite is true. Times are fucking wicked easy now, so guys, act like fucking men and stip bitching.
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^100%. And my dad would have laughed at me if I told him I had it tough back in 1982. He’d be thinking, “Try fighting the Japs then coming home to work 2 jobs to afford a row home in Camden NJ”
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The country was better off in 1982 because the national debt was only a trillion instead of 38 trillion dollars, our industrial base had not been offshored yet, we did not have three decades of trade deficits averaging 600 billion dollars a year yet, the country was 80% White instead of 55% White and we did not have a large population of elderly Whites relying on underfunded Social Security and Medicare systems.
I visited no strip clubs in the eighties and can't make a comparison there, though my local Indianapolis strip clubs are worse than fifteen years ago. Anyone else have any thoughts on that?
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