*Nothing* on the cost of govt? Taxes\fines\fees? OSHA\EPA\reg. red-tape?
1950’s it took a SINGLE bread-winner for accomplish:
- Owning home
- Owning car
- 2 TVs
- save for college
- take vacation
- etc
You must have been rich——I don’t know one person who had 2 TVs in the 50s.
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>>*Nothing* on the cost of govt? Taxes\fines\fees? OSHA\EPA\reg. red-tape?
>>1950’s it took a SINGLE bread-winner for accomplish:
Homes were small by today’s standards and built without vapor barriers, hurricane roofs, etc. They required storm windows and screens because they didn’t have central A/C. They had one, maybe two duplex receptacles in each room. They had one bathroom.
Cars were simple and didn’t produce the hp/liter that we get now or have the thousands of dollars in entertainment and safety features we pay for now. The seats weren’t as comfortable and they used 2/45 for air conditioning.
College was not that expensive then because the Big Ed’s student loan scam didn’t exist. But, also, parents of kids of average intelligence or lesser means didn’t even try to save to college. Their kids was going to trade school or the military, or marrying some guy who did.
Vacations weren’t the “trip of a lifetime” they must be today.
And the big difference: your phone cost almost nothing. But today, a family of 4 pays $200 a month for phones, and another $100 for internet, and another $100-200 for cable TV.
Taxes/fines/fees add to that, but OSHA and the EPA were not all bad. I remember when industrial workers routinely lost fingers and the river smelled liked creosote and sewage and you could smell it form 20 miles away. Today, I live a mile from it and there is no smell at all.