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When corrected for inflation,I make 30% less than my father did right out of college.

And yet, you are having a conversation with a European who haven't had breakfast yet -- and it's costing you next to nothing :)

I'm not saying everything is fine and dandy. It's not.

I'm saying we often underestimate what we take for granted today, that wasn't possible 40 years ago.