{"id":11609,"date":"2024-05-08T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=11609"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:26:50","slug":"magazine-from-1990s-made-prediction-about-what-life-would-look-like-in-30-years-and-its-scarily-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=11609","title":{"rendered":"Magazine from 1990s made prediction about what life would look like in 30 years and it\u2019s scarily accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

People are flooding to social media to weigh in on a magazine advert from 1996 which depressingly ‘sums up everything from our generation onwards’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, everyone probably thought the world was going to turn out a lot more different than it has – take\u00a0the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>\u00a0for example. And no one could’ve predicted all the tomfoolery which has occurred in just three decades, not even\u00a0the living Nostradamus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, an insurance magazine advert from 1996 has ruffled\u00a0social media users’ feathers<\/a>\u00a0after a few of its predictions hit a bit too close to home.<\/p>\n

In a magazine released in 1996, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) and College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) posted an advert to warn people against splashing\u00a0the cash<\/a>\u00a0too quickly and making sure to save up for a rainy day – or just the bleak future to be honest – and start investing, saving or thinking about insurance with them in a bid to ‘outpace inflation’.<\/p>\n

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There’s only one word for this ad – bleak. (X \/ TIAA\/CREF)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The advert read: “They say in thirty years\u00a0a burger & fries<\/a> could cost $16, a vacation for $12,500, and a basic car for $65,000.<\/p>\n

“No problem. You’ll eat in. You won’t drive. And you won’t go anywhere.”<\/p>\n

The advert added: “Granted, sitting around the house may not be your idea of the perfect retirement. But what’s your choice when inflation is slowly but surely eroding the value of your nest egg?”<\/p>\n

And it’s not taken long for people to weigh in on just how accurate the companies’ predictions for 30 years in the future – which will be in the year 2026 – are.<\/p>\n

The image has gone viral on\u00a0social media<\/a>, with one Instagrammer commenting: “They were right.”<\/p>\n

“Lmao so accurate,” another wrote, as a third commented: “Time to eat the rich.”<\/p>\n

Reddit user\/ ThriftStoreWh*res added: “This ad in a magazine from 1996 sums up everything from our generation onwards.”<\/p>\n

However, another noted: “Most of these are actually less, though considering it still hasn\u2019t been 30 years yet and\u00a0car manufacturers<\/a>\u00a0are slowly transitioning to electric cars, those at the moment cost right around that price.”<\/p>\n

So, just\u00a0how\u00a0<\/em>accurate is the ad?<\/p>\n

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And we’ve still got two more years to go… (Getty Stock Images\/ Guido Mieth)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Well, the average cost of a burger and fries in the US as of last year went up to $15.88 by June 2023, as per new data from Toast quoted in\u00a0a report by\u00a0<\/a>Restaurant Business Online.<\/p>\n

So, that’s only around 20 cents off the ad’s prediction and if you add fries into the mix too? Well, I’ll just let you process that one in for a sec.<\/p>\n

The cost of a vacation may not quite be as staggering as $12,500 – unless you decide to go on a five-star trip to the Maldives with business class flights that is – but it’ll still put a pinch on your wallet amid a cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0<\/a>Pacaso, the average vacation cost for 2024 is $1,040 for two people for a week of travel.<\/p>\n

And the average cost of a new car in the US in 2024 is ‘over $47,000’\u00a0as per<\/a>\u00a0Fortune, which once more, isn’t wildly far off the ad’s predictions.<\/p>\n

Also, don’t forget there’s still two more years until 2026 too. Bleak, we know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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