[speaker001:] um let's see how about um let's see about ten years ago um what do you think was different ten years ago from now
[speaker002:] well I would say as far as social changes go um I think families were more together they they did more things together uh they ate dinner at the table together um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] the the parents usually took out time um you know more time than they do now to come with the children and and just spend the day doing a family activity
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um although I'm not a mother I I still think that um a lot has changed since ten years ago um what do you think about that
[speaker001:] what do you well uh actually ten years from today seems rather short
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um but I do agree that uh generally it's society has sort of uh let's see rushed everything ahead
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I don't know it leaves leaves a lot of time out for family and things like that in other words they just prioritize their lives differently but I think that has a lot to do with economic situations
[speaker002:] yes what about like as far as um social changes in the individual do you think that the individual has as much time as they did let's say ten twenty years ago
[speaker001:] uh hm it depends uh it's hard to say because I think people were busy ten twenty years ago too
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um I just
[speaker002:] well how how old are you
[speaker001:] I'm twenty eight
[speaker002:] twenty eight okay I'm twenty three
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so there's maybe a five year gap between us
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so um
[speaker001:] I just I think that things were a bit were have been busy all along it's just a matter where priorities are at placed
[speaker002:] huh yes
[speaker001:] and that um usually as far as families are concerned there used to be just one person working and usually the other parent was home
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and now uh it's pretty much an economic necessity of for most in most places for both parents to work
[speaker002:] do you think it's an economic crisis necessity or do you think that we're we're uh all trying to keep up with a certain standard of living
[speaker001:] I think that's part of it too but I do think
[speaker002:] I mean do you think people really need two cars and
[speaker001:] no no I don't
[speaker002:] a house in the suburbs or
[speaker001:] no I don't think that but then there are a lot of people that that don't have that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that that really do need to work
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I think maybe those people that really do need to work both parents just to survive and then there that is is that other group that is working to maintain a standard of living that um
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum okay
[speaker001:] they think is is surviving which is really more luxuries um but I I tend to think that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's less those people that have the two cars and everything than it is the group that is just trying to survive
[speaker002:] you so you think it's uh which group are you saying is the one trying
[speaker001:] I'm saying that the uh the group that is just trying to survive from day to day where both parents are working
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] is more of the majority than the than the people that have the higher standard of living because if you look at economics across this country and statistics on who has the money and who the uh decreasing um middle class in this country
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I think that that's in my opinion the case
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] so I mean I have met people that uh both that that just want to maintain a the standard of living and those that that really need the job
[speaker002:] okay and then sometimes I I often uh find that
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] maybe there's so many different things available to us a microwave a VCR a answering machine um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know a special a dishwasher um a refrigerator and some of those items um for the for the um well I guess we're sticking more to social changes but um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] people want all of that and not all of those are necessities
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] so they're trying to it has become a necessity