According to this chart, I’ve only ever been boomer successful, but for 15 years, my boss has been a very handsome dumb idiot, my ice cream shop is 10 years old this month, and I’ve got two lovely kids who are mean to me. Feels like a success to me.
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Discussion 6 comments
That's wild. But also, Gen Z ends in 2012, so some of these respondents are like 12 years old.
If you read the fine print of the survey, they surveyed people who 18 and older.
That’s a crazy difference. At the risk of sounding condescending is there any chance older people are just used to 100k being the standard? Inflation is hard
Still... I wouldn't take the Gen Z number very seriously. These are, for the most part, people without fully developed pre-frontal cortexes, and with almost no life/work experience.
I wonder if the Boomers are just out of date on salaries/cost of living (given that in the 80s/early90s, 100k really would have put you in the upper middle class), or if the newer generations sense of what 'financial success' means has been skewed by the growth (and growth in prominence) of the super rich. Ie. Is this about perceptions or reality or perceptions of reality.
I remember getting out of college (engineering, 20 years ago) and dreaming that some day I may hit 6 figures. My number has evolved quite a bit since then as my actual salary has increased but I do still remind myself when I'm angling for raises or annoyed about salary that I should remember to be at least a little grateful since there was a time when I dreamed about someday earning 100k.
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