• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      So, you believe that all the technological and medical improvements of the past six decades were the result of massive inflation and the collapse of the middle class?

      Could you elucidate?

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        6 months ago

        What are you talking about? We are richer now than then.

        Just look up, I don’t know, the percentage of homes with hot water or electricity. Look up percentage of homes with an indoor toilet. It’s nearly 100% now… But in 1960s these were not a given

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          6 months ago

          Or, to put it another way, in 1960 minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average home was $11,000.00. A burger flipper could get hired on high school graduation day and be a homeowner in 20 years without ever getting a raise.

          Are you saying that all the technological and medical progress of the last 60 years was a direct result of the decrease of real wages?