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Well I see we don't agree. JMR I remember when my Dad's salary supported the family of five bought and paid for a home (NO MORTGAGE) and saved for the future. You could buy a gallon of Gasoline for .27 cents and a loaf of bread for a .25 cents. A good salary was $200.00 per week. Today a good salary is at least $1,000.00 and homes cost in the vicinity of $200,000.00 where homes then cost $8,000.00. Were is the equity? Salaries have gone up by 10 but homes have gone up by over twenty. Gasoline gone up at least 16 ,bread same thing. Our standard of living hasn't gotten better, it's far worse.
By every material measure, this is incorrect. Our houses are larger, nicer, and have systems they didn't before (air conditioning, central heating, wifi). Our vehicles are safer, more fuel-efficient, and come with a host of amenities, upgrades, and features. Heck, computers are now not only mass-accessible, adults have multiple computers apiece, all of which can get on the internet....