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Some Boomers still price life like Clinton is in office.

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Nothing reveals the generational disconnect faster than asking an older American what anything costs.

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Younger Americans aren’t always dramatic. Sometimes older Americans are just wildly behind.

BRIEFING

Grant here. Boomers are living in a bit of an economic bubble. Just look at any chart showing economic growth and opportunity, and this generation almost always comes out on top. The fact is that they kind of hit the economic jackpot, and as a result, they kind of live in an alternate universe where they seem to be completely disconnected from the financial disasters happening around them. They're so sheltered that a lot of them don't even know the basic costs of things, like a movie ticket. Let’s break it down.

On X there's a simple clip of a girl asking her dad how much he thinks it currently costs to go to the movie theater, and shockingly, he lands on eight bucks total. He thinks it's $5 for two tickets and $3 for popcorn, thus adding up to $8 for the whole thing.

And sure, you can chuckle at that response for about two seconds, but then you realize just how many older Americans are still walking around with a totally obsolete sense of what ordinary life costs now.

SOURCE

Younger generation Americans believe older generation American are completely out of touch with how much things cost, and the struggle they go though

So a girl asks her dad how much he thinks it costs to go to the movies

The older man says going to the movies is $5 for 2 tickets and popcorn is $3

For 2 standard tickets at AMC the price is $24 per ticket in some places in California, and a large popcorn is $12

That’s $60 to go see one movie

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The fact is that, as nice as it would be to pay a mere $8 for a night out at the movies, that's not the world we're living in. As the X post points out, in states like California, the price for just one movie ticket is $24, and popcorn can cost $12. So, we're looking at like $60 for two people to go see the picture show.

This guy is off by like $40.

Then if you want to look at the brutal reality of a family going to the movies... I mean, you might as well start remortgaging your house.

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DEBRIEFING

Sure, this is one clip, but really, go up to any Boomer and ask them this same question, and I can bet their answer is going to be relatively similar.

Boomers do indeed live in a blessed, little economy bubble. Many of them bought homes when homes were still attainable, raised families when one income could still stretch, and came of age in an economy that made ordinary life feel much less punishing. Even if they know things cost more now, they often still underestimate just how bad the gap has become. It's like inflation just doesn't compute for them.

So when younger people hear these old-timey price guesses, what they’re really hearing is someone who comes from essentially an alternate America. And that’s why the mix of shock, humor, and irritation is there for so many of us other generations, especially millennials. There's just this constant feeling of being judged by people who were economically luckier and still don't fully grasp how different things are now.

NOW YOU KNOW

A movie ticket just audited the Boomer mind.