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More accurate caption: Someone saw a movie about some people who expected a bonus and didn't get one. And from that they got the weird idea that most people in the 80's got bonuses.
I don't know what movie that's from, but sorry to tell you as someone who was there: No, most people in most jobs didn't get bonuses in the 80's or any other time. It was the same as today--only certain kinds of management types or financial sector types got bonuses. I've had some pretty decent jobs and never got a bonus and no one thought they'd get one.
Edit to Update: Yes, of course I know that some jobs gave bonuses. My point is that the post's entire raison d'etre is the incorrect assertion that bonuses were something that everyone, or most people, routinely expected to get in the 80's and that those people sure had it easy compared to people today. That is not the case at all. Most jobs didn't give you a bonus back then either.
And BTW kids, this isn't the first time there's ever been inflation either.. Look up inflation rates in the mid-late 70's and early 80's. A lot worse than now.
Not to call you a liar directly, but I don't get how "you were there" but you didn't recognize National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The movie was no. 2 in the box office only behind Back to the Future Part 2. The various National Lampoon movies have been ran on TV countless times during the 90s.
I only saw the summer vacation one. I think it was the first of all of them.
Because national lampoons where bullshit movies which, if you had a brain cell or two didnt bother with. And weren't that popular in the rest of the world. Like porky's.
Now airplane on the other hand... Or kentucky fried movie.... That we did see in the EU.
Not all people watch movies. Some people had four kids and are lucky to have 5 minutes to themselves while they shower.