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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I worked the factories in the late eighties, most had spouses that worked, most rented or bought a single wide, we all barely scraped by and were just a disaster away from being broke broke.

    Sure you had a few, and I emphasize a few, guys who made decent bank, but they were specialists and most people were clamoring to be their right hand person to take over when they retired or quit.

    That wasn’t the bulk of us.

    We didn’t own that comparable sized house.

    We didn’t take vacations, we visited family in another state.

    We didn’t drive a nice or a lot of times even decent cars.

    We on the line didn’t support a family of five comfortably, we all fucking struggled to make ends meet but we could keep modest for on the table and a roof over our heads.

    That family of five on a high schoolers education was always a bit of a myth but I will say it was certainly better back then than today, at least there was abundant factory work that paid better than the minimum.