What in your opinion is an actual wage needed to live like your parents did in the 90s?

My parents didn’t live that well so it has not been hard to exceed them, but still this thread is worth reading. It shows that the inflation numbers are absolute horseshit. For most people to live as well as their parents did in the 90s, it’d be 3-5x their current income.

To live as well as my grandparents did in the late 1970s and early 1980s (they were better off than my parents), I’d need to make 700K a year or so. I don’t make that much.