Wealth Gap Between Old and Young

[MTN Medic]

Originally Posted by Paslode

You could and I did. It was a apprenticeship so to speak. I like many others started working in a hot, dirty warehouse sweeping and worked my way into the office. From there I worked my way up the chain. The pay was excellent, in many cases better than if we had a college degree.

Along the road somewhere, companies in that industry began filling spots with the College Educated who had never been dirty or touched a broom rather than the Apprentices and before to long these highly educated folks commandeered the ship and told many of these folks that they did a wonderful job, but based on their education level their compensation was too high....

Or there are guys like me that worked their as off in Alaska making money for college and then joined that Army (enlisted). I am so sick of damn generalities out of old people lately. God forbid a kid wants to make something better of himself.

[Sigaba]

I disagree somewhat with the assertion that nepotism was not practiced in America before the 1970s.

[1stindoor]

Originally Posted by MTN Medic

I am so sick of damn generalities out of old people lately....

Agreed!...and I'm so sick of damn generalities coming out of you young'ns too!
God forbid I should think my house and my income belongs to me and not my children.

[ZonieDiver]

Us old farts can't remember specifics, so we're stuck with generalities!

[Sparty On]

I'm interested as to what effect the skyrocketing costs of health care will have on that wealth gap.

[plato]

Originally Posted by Sparty On

I'm interested as to what effect the skyrocketing costs of health care will have on that wealth gap.

I've seen that as the common phrase when discussing health care expenditures. How does "the skyrocketing demand for the most expensive healthcare options" sound as a partilal cause?

I get x-rays at the docs office, take generics that do well enough instead of the "latest and greatest" with high co-pays, and at my age take a fair number of medications. I haven't seen an overall increase that wasn't in the range of the usual annual rise in the cost of living.

I expect that those who just gotta have the medical equivalent of a lear jet wouldn't be able to say the same.