[elfman2]

Good clip, but it could have been accented with a few more relevant statistics, not comparisons with living standards 105 years ago, but 20 or 30.

[RipSawyer]

Good clip, but it could have been accented with a few more relevant statistics, not comparisons with living standards 105 years ago, but 20 or 30.

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Thanks, I don’t know what the idea was but as far as I am concerned it does wreck the whole comparison. I tried to make the case on this forum that (in some ways) we are worse off than forty years ago and was told that I should make comparisons to ten years ago.

[LowCountryJoe]

So, you want recent stuff, stuff with numbers. I think that the third link down is a YouTube parody (if memory serves) but it will illustrate something, if you're paying attention.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_438111.html http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2006/09/halfempty_or_ha.html http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/01/24-circa-1994.html http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2007/11/more-progress.html http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2007/09/more-room.html

[Clemenza]

Ah, yeah. Small houses in ho hum neighborhoods, vacations at the shore and not abroad, fine food “a treat” if you could get it. Yeah, things were great in the 1950s-1970s.