Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast where we talk to our friend and sponsor of the show, Zach Abraham from Bulwark Capital Management.

And today we're going to talk. We're all Gen Xers here. We're all proud of being Gen Xers. And I know I often think of the good old days.

Growing up in the 80s was like the best time to grow up ever. I just am 100% sure of that.

No one can tell me otherwise.

You're right.

You're not going to argue.

And I think that now millennials and Gen Z kids often say, they often talk about the good old days because that was a time when it was a lot easier for people in that age group, young people, to get ahead or just

be in the middle class. And so recently there was a real interesting video that John Stossel put

out saying, yeah, there's that complaint out there, but isn't really true because yes, it was

easier to get a home, for example, but the homes were

way crappier than they are now. They didn't have air conditioning. They didn't have washers and

dryers. They didn't have all of this stuff. So are we comparing apples and oranges or do kids

today really, really have it bad? Yeah. And also, they didn't have Starbucks. They weren't getting their nails done. They weren't getting their eyebrows done. They weren't like, they didn't have all the social media stuff to compare. They didn't have $1,400 phones. I mean, there's just a plethora of items that kids today have that I didn't have when I was in my 20s. You know what I mean?

And I was living with four other people in an apartment, like stacked, you know, four high.

You know what I mean? It was, it's different. It is very different. And I, and I think when you

start talking about it, is it better or worse? I think that's all about context, right? Like, what are you referring to? And I think both things can

be true at the same time, meaning there is absolutely that part of human beings that, you know,

that, what is the term? Or, you know, nostalgia, right? We nostalgia eyes for, I know that's a butchery of the English language, but we do that here.

Yeah, we idealize the past.

Right.

And we tend to see it with just rose colored glasses on.

But I think that that was much more true.

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