| junk fun - 8/27/2025 11:09
I agree, B&C is one of the top three posters that I listen when they post, but I'll disagree with his thoughts that it was "nickles and dimes" for generations. Everybody was poorer then and worked harder, but there were farmers everywhere that did well for themselves, just like there were farmers that lost it all.
College was more affordable, but it was also more basic just like everything else. Costs have gone through the roof because nobody was looking at the bills, just spending more and more. I wouldn't be surprised if the states pay way more to universities adjusted for inflation than the 50's-80's, but the luxury buildings and greater enrollment has driven total costs so much higher. Thanx for the vote of confidence, JF. I would like to clarify I was referring to my grandpas generation, not those that followed. Or multiple generations. It was in reply to GS2’s insinuation, which as it turns out, his grandpa was much younger, and much more recent era. Putting his kids through college in the 80’s? Really? His grandpa much younger than my Dad, by quite a bit. It really was hard to make much more than my reference in the 50’s and 60’s, when corn often was a buck a bushel, and beans 3 or less, and a big yield was 100 corn and 30 beans. Hogs a dime and cattle .30, or less. Once 1973 happened, there were periodically times where a guy could hit a home run every now and then. Anyway, enuff of this topic, most here are too young to understand how things were 60-70 years ago. Only saving grace was a nickel went a long way back then. A dollar still had a lot of purchasing power clear into the 80’s. My neighbor ran a repair and welding shop, and he was the best in the area, shop rate, ten bucks an hour, 1982.
Edited by Boone & Crockett 8/27/2025 21:13
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Does anybody else agree?
