If You Are A Baby Boomer - the real reason YOU SHOULD BE FURIOUS over CPI cuts:

[truedelphi]

82. In some ways, we are guilty of using up all the fun.

Jobs were plentiful although the competition for higher level jobs was intense. (People with PhD's in literature had to drive cabs due to competition.) Rents were cheap - so if you wanted to work hard thee or four days a week at some enterprise you established, you could have a long weekend every week - and still buy a condo! Gasoline waas like 34 cents for a gallon.

But the younger people don't get how the culture was forever altered. (You younger whippersnippers!) I am reminded of this guy who
worked up the street from where I worked, about ten years ago. My girlfriend and I went in to pick up the printing his company was doing. This twenty something guy overheard us talking about some concert we had seen, decades earlier, and the event must have dated us. (Certainly our looks didn't, I mean, I couldn't look my age could I? And no, don't answer the last question.)

Anyway he says to us, above the blare of the hard rock that was booming over the speakers in his part of the office, "So the thing I never forgave you Boomers for, you think you made changes... What the hell changes did you make?"

T. and I both split a gut laughing, after we got out of the place. I mean, he had tattoos over every visible inch of his body. Hair down to his waist, and earrings and other piercings. He was working for a mid-level corporation, and he didn't have the vaguest idea that back in the day, he'd have either had to be getting money from Mom and Dad, or selling weed on the street, to be dressed like that. And back in the day, the only music that a worker ever got in their mid level corporate work station was Muzak, not hard rock.