[quote=sdrealtor]
I ask the last 3 posters (Araya, patb & SK in CV) are you more successful, more educated and living a fuller life than your grand dad or are you the new underclass?[/quote]
I’m not sure that’s a material question. My grandfater was born in 1883. He escaped czarist Russia and came to the US somewhere around 1914. He spent his life as a merchant in a tiny town in the midwest. I doubt he ever considered whether he was rich or poor. He kept his wife and kids fed, but never made enough to retire. But he was almost 60 years old by the time the post WWII middle class in this country began to emerge. If somehow he’d had the financial wherewithal to participate in a middle class lifestyle, I suspect he would have declined the opportunity. Probably wouldn’t have fit in very well with his political anarchist/communist philosophies.
