I hate this Simpsons meme so much

According the the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, a Nuclear Technician at a Nuclear Power Plant makes an average of about $115,000 per year. The median household income in the US is $81,000 per year, so Homer could support a family of five with that job today, especially if Springfield has affordable housing, the family only has one older car, and the power plan provides good healthcare benefits. Well maybe not the healthcare benefits, Burns is a miser. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/nuclear-technicians.htm

Anybody, Left or Right, who takes social commentary and life lessons from a cartoon is a fool. The Simpsons is not deep, it is ridiculous.

A cousin of mine from Manitoba bought a small house for something like $10,000. If you're willing to live somewhere quite rural, property can be cheap.

But yeah, here I am living in a 1 bedroom apartment with 3 other people. The downsides of living in the city.

No, JJ, it's not about "lifestyle creep." Two people working overtime with no kids can't comfortably afford their rent, food, and even reasonable comforts. "You have a bigger TV than your grandpa!" doesn't change the fact that a cheap TV nowadays is a bigger percentage of your weekly check than a cheap TV would be decades ago, alongside everything else including rent.

this video unironically made me binge simpsons season 3.
10/10

I mean, it kinda depends where you live I would think. I got lucky growing up so I benefited not having to worry so much about living beyond my means but, still, in DC, my childhood home, before we sold it in 2009, was worth about 700k. Now, it's worth about 2.4 mil… Almost all houses in my neightborhood and around are over 1mil and can commonly approach 2mil, nothing particulary special about them either (lot of them will be renovated by developer, cause reasons) and I hate being pessimistic but there's no way I could afford anywhere close to this on 70k or even double/triple that so my time here is limited, unfortunately.

I just very recently met a professor in a community theatre production and she teaches a class on how TV and film has molded a generation into believing certain realities that are in fact made up from entertainment and we accept them as truths. Example: fictional crime and law shows make us think we know the processes and procedures of law enforcement to the justice system when it can be totally inaccurate. I’m going to ask her about the Simpson and animated sitcoms when I see her next.

Respectfully disagree. Them simpsons are an unusual family in the sense they had awnful behaviours. They had financial dificulties because Homer had no idea how to spend

By 1989, middle-class families living comfortably in a big house in a decent area with only dad working was becoming less common. But between 1950 and 1970, many middle middle-class families in urban areas did have their own homes on just the father's salary. Even then, though, often the initial capital for the house was substantially provided by the grandparents.

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I think you have a point when you say people take any pessimistic statement at face value because that makes sense to them, yet i think materially there is good reason why people are more pessimistic than before, I don’t think social beliefs like that fall out of the sky

Didn't even mention the fact that they all wear the same clothes throughout the week.