"The way *I* you seem to forget I am one of those Boomers who are into *I* and I am not dis-counting what you do for a living at all, but it's far from the sweat that many men had to do to take care of a wife and 7 children with little education...."
The sweat of a man's brow is only worth what a nother man's intellect has made it worth. Without intellectual advancements, man's labor would never see productivity increases.
You really need to read "Atlas Shrugged."
CSM- My response was based more from a Stress Factor and the impact on families, an Educated job is going to give a person the money, admiration and lessens the burdens of life than a less educated person, that's a given.
Many of the World War11 era men had low paying factory, construction, plant style jobs and with that came a wife that did not work and larger families to support, so those men had a bigger burden to hold and in essence did not make the best husbands or fathers because they were just made to feel as PROVIDERS to the home no more and no less...