Zwei von drei Kanadiern würden lieber im Jahr 1950 als im Jahr 2026 geboren

**In Brief:**

* **A recent Abacus Data poll reveals that 62% of Canadians would prefer to have been born in 1950 rather than 2026, indicating a desire for stability and economic security over modern conveniences.**
* This preference is strongest among older Canadians and Conservative voters, while younger generations and visible minorities lean towards the present day.
* **David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data says the preference appears to signal deeper concerns about economic security and whether hard work still leads to a decent life.**
* “It is not that people want to go backward. It is that people want to feel safe,” Coletto wrote in his analysis. **“This is the disillusionment of adulthood. Not a rejection of modern life, but a growing sense that the ‘deal’ has changed,” he explained.**
* The findings highlight a widespread feeling that the socio-economic system is no longer delivering on its promises.

And slightly over 1/2 of American voters would seemingly rather live in 1850 America or 1930s Germany.

Is the third person a girl? Economics of the time aside we have a glorified view of that time frame and a lot of women being disenfranchised and performing unpaid labor added to the wealth and stability of that time. 

>Among Canadians aged 60 and older, 81 percent would rather be born in 1950. That figure drops to 64 percent for those aged 45 to 59, and 54 percent for those aged 30 to 44.

>Younger Canadians are the outlier. Among those aged 18 to 29, only 40 percent would choose 1950, making them the only age group where a majority still prefers the present day.

Aren’t those 60 years and older born in 1950 or close to (plus/minus a dacade-ish)?

I bet they’re white…

women being able to get banks accounts without a signature from their husband is good, actually

I’d say 1960s and grow up be am adult in the 80s would have been nice.

I love the modern world but the politics and forest fires are a little scary.

I’ve always said I should have been born in 1960.

Experience the 70s as a teen.

Peak in the 80s (man I would have crushed it in the 80s.)

Enjoy the 90s as an old hipster.

Panic in 1999 that my stocks would vaporize.

Complain in 2010 that I don’t understand these damn phones.

Face time my children in 2020 too close to the screen and not trim my nose hair.

Have my kids teach me about technology in 2025 and join reddit to share my hobby of coin and stamp collection.

See my post 5 minutes from now and reinforce how great it was.

That’s totally me because I’m secretly Silent Gen. I would’ve thrived in the post-war era of midcentury jazz and midcentury modern architecture. But I’m Gen X so I got stuck growing up in the lame-ass 1980s.

Modern day liberalism ruined the west. Mass migration, taxes on everything (HST, Carbon taxes) coupled with corporate pandering, and here we are…

I have 2 degrees, over 6 years of experience in software development. I traded in my youth without hesitation and took on student loan debt I have always repaid. I did everything asked of me– I studied hard until I broke down in tears in the library striving for a 4.0 for more scholarships and further education. I’ve worked on FDA regulated medical devices and my last job was for years at a international security company working on cutting edge AI processed workflows for people’s safety… I worked tooth and nail with the belief that I was contributing to a better safer world. I was the most motivated employee you could have imagined. I bought into the dream hook line and sinker.

…

-I have now been unemployed for months. Had I not saved as much money as I did I’d be unable to afford food. I moved back with my parents in a home I feel unwelcome in at best. A constant shadow of disappointment over me. A failure. Left to be glared at and ridiculed each day by parents that are ashamed they raised such a failure.

-Home ownership is out of reach.

-I bought my mom’s old 2012 escape cash and cannot dream of buying an E.V. in spite of E.V.’s being shoved down our throat by the news. I feel like each article I read that I’m being mocked!

-Children? Please. That dream is dead. I’m now getting too old. I will never be able to have children– something I did fantasize about growing up. How sad…. but it’s now out of reach.

My life has been a complete nightmare. An unrelenting tireless exhausting nightmare.

I’m at the point I am going to be seeing MAID soon. I’ve seen enough. This world, this country, this economy has failed me. I did everything asked of me, I can say that without hesitation. I fall asleep to the same sweet dreams each night– only to wake up to the same nightmare for months now. Endlessly. Hopelessly.

Know that when I seek MAID I do it without any guilt in my heart. I did everything asked of me. This country failed me. I did everything you asked of me. Everything. My reward is a life far from worth living.

Is it because of Brampton or Surrey?

Not me. I’m black.

Yeah we weren’t being fist fucked by pedophile oligarchs over the price of fucking dry pasta let alone the wage gap inflation bullshit in every other possible aspect of life to this degree at that point.

A time when a grocer could buy a house and raise a family, or a time where climate change is rampant, fascism’s on the rise worldwide, and working two jobs and a side hustle covers rent and usually groceries, provided you only buy the cheaper, less-healthy food options and never go out to do anything ever.

Yeah, no, I totally get why the pollsters are baffled.

Hell yeah, born 1950, get to hit Woodstock at 19. Plus all that other stuff like affording a house with 4 kids and wife who stays at home to take care of them.