Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Was Life Really Better in the Past?" video.

YES - CATEGORICALLY YES In 1994 at 24 I bought my first house a 3 bedroomed stone built large terrace for 2.5X my BASIC salary of £12k [total salary £17 to 24k]. As a telesales person. I had a Toyota Supra Twin Turbo NOT on finance. I was out 3 nights a week clubbing. I didn't get[need] a penny help from my parents. Everything I bought WORKED, I didnt have to use an app to get my dishwasher to work and £9.99 rental on the soap dispenser. My fridge didnt spy on me and send personal info to Russian hackers. YES LIFE WAS BETTER...!!!
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@feamatar Well That was in Yorkshire and even my dum6e5t and laziest mates had jobs and Yorkshire was hardly a booming place. I think the big issue here is we STILL have 10% unemployment we just calculate it differently and have a different labour market where a zero-hour contract counts as work even if you don't get any.
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@karolnowosad9765 Well not for me cos I live in Eastern Europe and we are having a boom over here. Snark asside. They were not really lavish, the problem is the UK and the US and the West in general allowed the rich to suck all the money out of the system and stop investing. It didnt HAVE to be like this.
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YEP - I forgot - I got a place at unit [didnt go] which would have been free, and my sister did a BSc and then a Master, she didnt pay. We grew up so poor we went to school in black bin bags in the rain. That would NEVER be possible today.
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@prolarka I find that very hard to believe. I grew up in extreme poverty in the north of Thatcher's Britain. We went to school in black bin bags in the rain too poor to afford coats. We ate pigs foot and pea soup once a week, sometimes dinner was a few slices of bread and butter [which was margarine]. I went to Batley Boys High School - a bad school - and yet it was incredibly easy for me to get a job, and then a better one and a better one. I dont believe I was unusual either in my poverty [we knew people far poorer] or my success.
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This was my comment: YES - CATEGORICALLY YES In 1994 at 24 I bought my first house a 3 bedroomed stone built large terrace for 2.5X my BASIC salary of £12k [total salary £17 to 24k]. As a telesales person. I had a Toyota Supra Twin Turbo NOT on finance. I was out 3 nights a week clubbing. I didn't get[need] a penny help from my parents. My sister will have to buy a house for her kid [thankfully she can] because he will NEVER earn enough to pay a mortgage.
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@sfactory8253 YEAH - It is NOT going well. It is a race between the collapse of the Ruble and the collapse of the Ukraine military.
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@HALLish-jl5mo Why do you come on here and talk *** ? Houses were 3 - 4 X 1 annual salary and there was near endless social housing at very low rents. Jobs and shops used to be local - for 30 miles away. Public transport was great and dirt cheap. I don't have a fridge or freezer or a car and you know why? Cos I live in Bulgaria where its STILL like that. Society in the UK has changed and cars and fridges are mandatory. Houses are insainl;y expensive.
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@HALLish-jl5mo Im disagree with the premise that we are poor today cos we spend on stuff people didn't have in the past. But your grandparents had things that previous generations didn't have. We are FORCED by powers outside our control to have these things to live. My sister does not want her 16 year old to have a smartphone - he has ADHD and watching Tic Tok etc makes it way worse. But he has to get the train to college and he literally CAN NOT use the train without a smartphone. There is NO paper ticket system on that train line - so thats a what £60 a month expense? We dont have a choice but to participate in 2024 and the cost of participating in 2024 is making us poor, but its NOT optional. Its not a thing that a bit of self-restraint will solve. I used to drive 5.0L V8 S Class Mercedes and YES that was crazy expensive. But running a 1.0L VW Up is STILL a lot of money but there is no bus and the job is 30 miles away. You can not have a family on 1 working-class salary in 2024 no matter how frugal you are. Thats basically my point.
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