In the past, people (especially woman) had to be careful when having sex outside of wedlock. Societal stigmas and the fear of being outcast was very real. Today its not such a big deal, the government will just pay for it.The pill was supposed to free the women but in reality the guy said "Now we don't have to worry" and the manufacturers said "If she works for a few more years we can sell them more stuff." The couple got used to the extra income and kids became an inconvenient expense. Enter the world of later life parenting and daycare, another expense.
The pill had nothing to do with manufacturers selling more product to woman who could "work for a few more years"
The pill was introduced in 1960. Only about 25-30% of woman participated in the workforce in 1960 (and how many of them worked part-time?).
Feminism told woman they can be empowered and that they dont have to have kids or that they could put kids off until a later time.
Corporations promoted feminism as it introduced a vast supply of labour into the workforce, creating downward pressure on wages.
(Why do you think woman are being pushed into STEM, IT, Softeng etc Look how expensive labour is for those 3.
The greatest happiness for people in their later years is arguably getting to spend time with grandchildren. I cant ever recall meeting anyone that age with grandchildren who "had better things" to do.Daycare??? It was nanny if you were rich and granny if you were poor. Now granny is an old boomer that has better things (In her mind) that babysitting the rest of her life. Daycare it is for your most important resource but with the same price point as a can of Spaghetti.
The problem is
1. People are becoming grandparents at an older age nowadays when they have less energy.
2. Life has gotten so expensive that people are working later in life
3. Cost of living is so high that families live further away from each other now.
(Very few young couples and afford to buy a house and have kids in the city)
We dont breed enough replacement stock because life is so expensive. People are starting careers several years after people a couple of generations ago did. Wages havent kept up with the cost of living. Add a housing adjustment into inflation and see how far behind wages are vs decades ago.We don't breed enough replacement stock to take care of us in our old age so we import (Immigration). Then we resent them for getting ahead because they don't do what we do.
There's a thread The USA is ******. No, us too.
People are spending much more time on their education and coming out with debt into a world where getting a good job is harder, where houses cost 2-4x as a ratio to income with what they once did.
Have you taken a look at immigrants who have been coming here over the past couple of decades? They are not all poor and starting at the bottom like I think you believe. There are tens of thousands of well-off immigrants who are here from China/HK, Africa, etc and they are resented
because they came here ALREADY AHEAD and have contributed to the rising cost of living here.
Case in point from the news the other day of Mr Wei Wei who came here 10 years ago under the investor-immigrant program and was busted running that unlicensed casino in Markham. Apparently he owns 50 properties in Toronto.
Filipinos tend to be the immigrants that "take care of us in our old age" and they really dont get ahead. They tend to be nannies forever but are happy people who dont complain because they can provide for family back home and being poor here is a better life than back home
I dont think boomers really understand how lucky they had things.
They could leave school at 16, get a decent job with no education, buy cheap houses, cottages, raise a family on one income.
Nowadays its leave school at 24 with debt, $1m houses, poor job market, high rents, everyone having side gigs/hustles, competing with investors/foreigners for housing.
"But but but my generation never had an iPhone"