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For generations, the formula seemed almost laughably simple: get a job, buy a house, raise a family and maybe squeeze in a vacation or two along the way.
Today, that same formula can feel more like a luxury package than a standard life plan.
In a post on Reddit, a 43-year-old man wondered whether people are remembering the so-called "American Dream" through rose-colored glasses or whether something fundamentally changed.
"Did boomers really screw us over, or was the economic situation they grew up in one-in-a-lifetime and unsustainable?" he wrote.
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For generations, the formula seemed almost laughably simple: get a job, buy a house, raise a family and maybe squeeze in a vacation or two along the way.
Today, that same formula can feel more like a luxury package than a standard life plan.
In a post on Reddit, a 43-year-old man wondered whether people are remembering the so-called "American Dream" through rose-colored glasses or whether something fundamentally changed.
"Did boomers really screw us over, or was the economic situation they grew up in one-in-a-lifetime and unsustainable?" he wrote.
#benzinga
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