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Eh. If you can replace someone with practically any able bodied person off the street and a week of training, it's not skilled labor.

Can you technically argue that 1 week of training equates to becoming "skilled"? Sure, but it's a dumb line to draw IMO.

I think those kids are drinking age now

Because we should wipe away 2 decades of history and pretend the next thing is flawless on release?

Edge came in with a freight train of baggage, and didn't make it. It's absurd to frame this otherwise.

And Google established a lot of the standards that were both open and long living.

Yeah, Google has strayed far from the "Do no evil" philosophy in the last decade. But this rewriting of history to praise IE and demonfy Chrome from that era is ridiculous.

Rofl. So let's white wash the browser history before chrome, then. Back when IE reigned supreme. You must either be too young or not in the industry to champion that.

Huh. There's an employee program that has small rewards for meeting exercise goals.

Time to break out Rock Band

Yeah, the one saying that was claiming that after your initial deprecation after driving off the lot, trucks tend to hold their value for a long time. So might as well.

He's also the guy that's last minute panicking about saving for retirement in his 50s.

Go figure.

I just picked up an early 2000s used truck because I have a hobby where a truck bed is useful. $7500.

People were trying to tell me that I should get a new one, I can resale it in a few years and it'll retain it's value.

I don't need a shiny new truck. I'm going to throw wood and sheet goods in the back. And I can actually see out of the damn thing, unlike anything recent.

Yep, the people whose entire personality is combating the "woke liberal left".

You know, the people they portray is foaming at the mouth woke crusaders. When in actuality, 95% of left voters consist of people who don't give a shit about all this besides listening to the oppressed minorities problems and proposed solutions, and showing the smallest amount of empathy.

"Oh damn, I didn't realize you dealt with that shit. Yeah, ok, gender neutral bathrooms are cool. Whatever you need, doesn’t bother me."

Right: "screeeeeeeee!!!"

It's almost like building regulations are there to protect the people at the cost of unscrupulous businesses.

But nah, regulations bad. Free market will reward builders that voluntarily do things right.

Suuuure.

What a dishonest argument.

There's a world of difference from someone barely getting by, living paycheck to paycheck, versus a middle class worker well into their career, able to afford minor luxuries and still squirrel away money for savings and retirement.

I am middle class. I am 20 years into my career. I make comparatively good money.

But due to not prioritizing buying property, I've pretty much missed my window. I can qualify for a mortgage, have the 20% down-payment, but the monthly payment would pretty much wipe me out, costing around $3k more per month than renting.

If I were at this point in my career 20 years ago, I could have easily afforded a house comfortably.

That is what we're talking about when we talk about the housing crisis for specifically the middle class.