Sorry, but you are naive if you believe this.
I was born in 1971, the median household income in the united states was about 25k with a single breadwinner, a year of Harvard cost $2500. Today the median household income is about 50k with both adults working, and a year of Harvard is $45k without room and board and fees.
So today it takes 2 people on average, make in real wealth just barely what 1 person could 40 years ago.
This isn’t just an education issue, this is the fact our leaders have sold this nation down the toilet for decades... the problem is far bigger than you didn’t educate yourself better. You work in Tech? Then you should be well aware that the H1B program is wholesale abused to drive down labor prices of skilled tech workers etc etc etc.
While everyone should take responsibility for their lives, you are very naive if you think the deck has not become highly stacked against the average person more and more every year by our pathetic leaders.
We live in an Oligarchy today, that has sold America down the sewers.
******This isn’t just an education issue, this is the fact our leaders have sold this nation down the toilet for decades... the problem is far bigger than you didn’t educate yourself better.******
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There ya go!
Great comments.
Your numbers aren’t right at all. Nominal median income is 7 times what it was in 1971. Inflation-adjusted it’s slightly higher.
http://www.davemanuel.com/median-household-income.php
It dips during recessions, and dipped a lot in the Bush/Obama recession.
Tuition at Harvard is a ridiculous standard to use. How about the cost of a computer? They’re much smaller and cheaper now than they were in 1971. And that affects way more people than Harvard does.
I’m well aware of H1B but this still accounts for a relatively small number of people. Absolutely there are lots of bad government policies hurting our economy and all of us, but it’s not right for people to break it down into a “rich are screwing the middle class” paradigm like OWS does. There’s never been a time in history when people weren’t looking for excuses demonize the rich out of envy.