Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s

Everyone wanting to make a huge wage rapped us.
Everyone cannot make a large wage and then be able to afford to sell products to those same people.
China is kicking our ass because of what the average worker is being paid.
Also, there was a lot of people in the 70-80’s that were lower paid as well, just a lot of the good union jobs were way over paid in comparison, and good for anyone who was smart enough to get one.

They also contribute to our cost of living. China’s millionaires buy so much property in places like Toronto that the cost of housing has become unattainable for a lot of normal people. I bought my house in a fairly small city for 260 less than 5 years ago. It’s worth 350 now. I am ok and know I will be ok. It’s my kids I am most worried about.
 
Everyone wanting to make a huge wage rapped us.
Everyone cannot make a large wage and then be able to afford to sell products to those same people.
China is kicking our ass because of what the average worker is being paid.
Also, there was a lot of people in the 70-80’s that were lower paid as well, just a lot of the good union jobs were way over paid in comparison, and good for anyone who was smart enough to get one.

Lack of Environmental and labour laws give them a huge advantage over us too. Thats a playing field that will never be leveled. We would have to go backwards in these areas by about 50-100 years to be on equal ground with them.
 
Lack of Environmental and labour laws give them a huge advantage over us too. Thats a playing field that will never be leveled. We would have to go backwards in these areas by about 50-100 years to be on equal ground with them.
I’m not saying it good, just pointing out a fact. I bet in the 70-80’s labour laws and environmental laws were a lot different than now.
The government has regulated business to a halt.
 
They also contribute to our cost of living. China’s millionaires buy so much property in places like Toronto that the cost of housing has become unattainable for a lot of normal people. I bought my house in a fairly small city for 260 less than 5 years ago. It’s worth 350 now. I am ok and know I will be ok. It’s my kids I am most worried about.

Yep I agree. I hear they tried to slow that down by putting on a tax to non Canadian owners, I know they did that in BC, then I heard they got greedy and decided to tax even Canadian outside province owners. My parents live in penticton.
In 2000 in Edmonton I bought a 1954 house that needed work for $121,000, sold it 4 years later for $200,000, then bought a 2004 house in Heritage hills in Sherwood park fir $292,000 and thought, damn I’ve hit the big time, lol. I left Edmonton in 2008 and sold that same house, mind you I did finish the back yard with retaining walls, made the deck bigger and put hardwood in some of the carpeted areas in the house, but sold it for $669,000. If I had sold 2 months earlier the real estate agent told me I would have got around $800,000. The sale had no conditions, and it sold in 4 days.
Then I moved to Kingston and bought a 1973, and damn looked like not a thing we done since 1973 house for $232,000 and the same not very well redone ones in my neighbourhood are selling fir $400,000 plus. We are getting all the retired Toronto and Ottawa people moving here and boosting our house prices. Plus a lot are being bought for investments. These houses are not worth $400,000.
I’m not moving again. My house is completely rebuilt except the shell. But we added insulation on the outside before putting up board and baton or new siding. My house is so overbuilt for the neighbourhood, but I will not pay these housing prices and take on a mortgage. Same reason why I won’t buy a new truck. $80,000 seriously?
 
I’m not saying it good, just pointing out a fact. I bet in the 70-80’s labour laws and environmental laws were a lot different than now.
The government has regulated business to a halt.

I know you werent saying it was good, I was just pointing out that wages is just one of the reasons they are beating us there are others.
 
Estrogens from plastics and water bottles etc are a contributing factor, Cancer is on the rise. Mystery illnesses are on the rise.
GMO foods on the rise, all of these create inflammation and fat.
Obviously there is a lot more to it, as many mentioned, the processed fast foods are a much bigger business than they used to be.
Fruit juices and soda pops etc, its crazy out there. I am so old school, I bring my own foods prepared fresh everywhere. My wife packs me lunch everyday with fresh prepped foods. No way I will get into the Tim Horton mcdonalds 7-11 scene. When I do if I happen to be starving and no food, I pay for it for the next 24 hours. Inflammation and lethargy. I am meant to live in the 60's to the 80's, as per my hairstyles. lol
 
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