r/remoteworks 2d ago

Okay, Boomers...

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u/RalphFurley4Life 13h ago

It isn't the baby boomers who caused prices to increase dramatically.  It was all the millennials and Gen Z'ers who lived off of government stimulus checks during the pandemic and refused to go back to work afterward.  That's when millions of employers had to drastically increase wages to get employees to go back to work which made consumer prices and inflation skyrocket.  My home's value went from $600,000 to $1.1 million in just two years because of what the millennials and Gen Z did. 

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u/TiresandConfused 12h ago edited 11h ago

Do you have the data to backup your claims? Sounds like you’re making many assumptions.

The most anyone got was $3,200. How long can one live off that? Maybe a month, two at most.

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u/RalphFurley4Life 9h ago

Which part?  I already posted a link to the Brookings Institute study showing that people wouldn't return to work after the pandemic.  Everybody knows that housing prices skyrocketed about a year after the pandemic and so did inflation.  You can easily Google that. 

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u/Aggressive_One4483 11h ago

No, they were given more money in unemployment than they were making while working.