Everything not included in "disposable income" is a basic need.
Food, energy, and basic clothing were muuuuuuch more expensive.
The grass is always greener, especially when you're looking at the past
Food, energy, and basic clothing were muuuuuuch more expensive.
The grass is always greener, especially when you're looking at the past
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It's all very, very hard! Always has been. Pretending otherwise is just a comforting myth for conservatives
It's about three times as much, fyi
Saying “look at the math” does not change the way that the pressures of high cost housing in particular make people feel.
I understand it feels good to think there was a time when life was easier.
But there wasn't.
The main reason wait times are higher than the past is that in the past a third of Americans had no health insurance whatsoever
Anyway here's a graph of how much it used to cost to eat, in case it helps you understand why the 70s were hard too:
but hey what’s that yellow-orange line there at the bottom of that graph?
The bottom line is people having more money now to go out to eat?