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Danny Boling ☮️Jun 24, 2023

"I feel the need to explain something to the generation that does not remember, or never saw, a world where one person with a high school education could support a family of 5 comfortably.

"This was real. For millions of US families. It was *normal.*

"It was stolen from you."

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Adam Ierymenko Jun 24, 2023

@IAmDannyBoling @drwho It gets more complex when you look at: the world population then and now, what percentage of that population had any wealth, the size and quality of homes then and now, and the number of gadgets and appliances then and now. Basically today commodities are far more costly because more people plus higher global living standard equals far higher demand on a finite planet. Also the hedonic treadmill eats gains. Today we would not be okay with a 900 sq foot post-WWII style home

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Adam Ierymenko

You probably can support 5 on one income with a small house, no subscriptions, no restaurants, old cars, basic health care only, no gadgets, no air conditioning, no flying for vacations, no college (or community college with no debt), etc. in other words a 1950s standard of living. One more thing that’s changed is that we have extracted all the cheap easy oil.