I have pinpointed the exact perfect year to have been born an average, non-exceptional middle-class white man in America, and it's 1930:
Too young to fight in World War II
You'd also get out of Korea by going to college
Which was either totally free or like $12 for the entire 4 years, and a college degree was still a really big deal
Post-war America was the exact perfect time to drop into some cushy bullshit job at a big fat corporation that you'd stay at for 40 years, slowly rising amongst the ranks through grinding mediocrity while your wife and 2.5 kids stayed at home waiting on your 3 weeks of vacation in August
You'd hit your financial work peak during the economic "greed is good!" boom of 1980s
Your career would be winding down just as computers were really taking over offices, so you never had to feel threatened by them and would only ever know the Internet as something "fun to look at"
You'd retire at the perfect moment of the prosperous 1990s, with the stock market roaring like never before along with one of the last pensions that felt like an entitlement
You'd die with Obama in office, feeling good about the direction of the country & everybody in it
You'd also get out of Korea by going to college
Which was either totally free or like $12 for the entire 4 years, and a college degree was still a really big deal
Post-war America was the exact perfect time to drop into some cushy bullshit job at a big fat corporation that you'd stay at for 40 years, slowly rising amongst the ranks through grinding mediocrity while your wife and 2.5 kids stayed at home waiting on your 3 weeks of vacation in August
You'd hit your financial work peak during the economic "greed is good!" boom of 1980s
Your career would be winding down just as computers were really taking over offices, so you never had to feel threatened by them and would only ever know the Internet as something "fun to look at"
You'd retire at the perfect moment of the prosperous 1990s, with the stock market roaring like never before along with one of the last pensions that felt like an entitlement
You'd die with Obama in office, feeling good about the direction of the country & everybody in it
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