• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    My wife’s father worked carpentry in a factory.

    Carpentry.

    He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week.

    That’s last-gen. It’s not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.