So what's stopping you? You have access to today's technologies, same as everyone, plenty of time and money and assets for loan collateral, unlike most younger people who need two full time workers just to live paycheck to paycheck, and few to no obligations, unlike those working while raising kids and caring for elderly relatives. What's your excuse again for not setting up your Win Win Costco delivery service?
The self-serving mythologies never cease to amuse though - over the last 60 years and adjusted for inflation, the boomers had access to the cheapest housing (In 1965, average house was <3x average annual salary, versus 5.3x today), cheapest college education ("1965 Ohio University tuition was probably about $3,000 or even less in today’s dollars. Today [2018], the in-state tuition is $12,192 [2026 - $14,582], about quadruple [or quintuple] the 1965 rate"), cheap medical care (out of pocket cost have doubled), etc, etc...
In some ways, many of you are like the indoor cats of macroeconomic financial challenges, lots of strutting around with little actual experience scrapping in the streets, having arrived after your parents' challenges with the Great Depression and WWII, and made your bank and pulled up the ladder behind you as GenX ran into 80s and 90s off-shoring and globalization, and the 2008 Financial Crisis that Millennials graduated into with 5 figure or higher student loan debt. That's why boomers hold 50+% of the total wealth, GenX at 26%, and Millennials and GenZ at just 10% (even though there are more of them than both Boomers or GenX at this point).
However, as Edge noted, money can't solve everything and you're going to grow increasingly reliant on, and at the mercy of, those youth you like to deride so much. Probably best to make sure you have some relationships that aren't based on money alone because as those hippie rockers liked to say back in their prime "Money Can't Buy You Love" and "No one here... gets out alive".
Silly me, I thought my comment would have had you assume that the boomer would have done that in his prime, not expected to do it in his golden, end of life years. Shame on me for the assumption I had that you could intellectually understand that.
I raised my kids already. I took care of and watched my eiders die.
And I find it so damned typical and smug of you to ask what my excuse is for not reliving my life all over again to deliver Costco products to your door of your mom's basement.
Right, or wrong, my generation paid its dues. There comes a time for the younger generations to sh*t or get off the pot. It's your time now to get off the pot instead of pretending to sh*t and issuing your no help, endless criticisms of everything and everyone else, excepting yourself of course. And yet saying nothing about the scam itself. I doubt ANY boomer played part of a Costco Insta Cart scam, excepting possibly the all too trusting elder boomer victim.
But then the question is what's stopping you? Could there be a win win situation for someone with a little initiative and drive and a slight risk-taking attitude to possibly pull off an enterprising venture. With possible governmental SBA loans and/or grants. Maybe get off Mom's couch and do something?
That's one hell of a sentence!
Thanks once again for offering nothing to the thread topic, but just yet again, another attempt at a dig.
The self-serving mythologies never cease to amuse though - over the last 60 years and adjusted for inflation, the boomers had access to the cheapest housing (In 1965, average house was <3x average annual salary, versus 5.3x today), cheapest college education ("1965 Ohio University tuition was probably about $3,000 or even less in today’s dollars. Today [2018], the in-state tuition is $12,192 [2026 - $14,582], about quadruple [or quintuple] the 1965 rate"), cheap medical care (out of pocket cost have doubled), etc, etc...
In some ways, many of you are like the indoor cats of macroeconomic financial challenges, lots of strutting around with little actual experience scrapping in the streets, having arrived after your parents' challenges with the Great Depression and WWII, and made your bank and pulled up the ladder behind you as GenX ran into 80s and 90s off-shoring and globalization, and the 2008 Financial Crisis that Millennials graduated into with 5 figure or higher student loan debt. That's why boomers hold 50+% of the total wealth, GenX at 26%, and Millennials and GenZ at just 10% (even though there are more of them than both Boomers or GenX at this point).
However, as Edge noted, money can't solve everything and you're going to grow increasingly reliant on, and at the mercy of, those youth you like to deride so much. Probably best to make sure you have some relationships that aren't based on money alone because as those hippie rockers liked to say back in their prime "Money Can't Buy You Love" and "No one here... gets out alive".
Silly me, I thought my comment would have had you assume that the boomer would have done that in his prime, not expected to do it in his golden, end of life years. Shame on me for the assumption I had that you could intellectually understand that.
I raised my kids already. I took care of and watched my eiders die.
And I find it so damned typical and smug of you to ask what my excuse is for not reliving my life all over again to deliver Costco products to your door of your mom's basement.
Right, or wrong, my generation paid its dues. There comes a time for the younger generations to sh*t or get off the pot. It's your time now to get off the pot instead of pretending to sh*t and issuing your no help, endless criticisms of everything and everyone else, excepting yourself of course. And yet saying nothing about the scam itself. I doubt ANY boomer played part of a Costco Insta Cart scam, excepting possibly the all too trusting elder boomer victim.
But then the question is what's stopping you? Could there be a win win situation for someone with a little initiative and drive and a slight risk-taking attitude to possibly pull off an enterprising venture. With possible governmental SBA loans and/or grants. Maybe get off Mom's couch and do something?
That's one hell of a sentence!
Thanks once again for offering nothing to the thread topic, but just yet again, another attempt at a dig.