In 1916, the average man earned $15.00 per week and that was in N.Y.C., where salaries were far higher ( so were costs ! ) than in the rest of the country. Because of safetynets and a lot of other things, wages and prices haven't fallen , since the Great Depression. OTOH, if you measure what 2002 dollars buy, as opposed to what 1950 dollars buy, we have actually progressed ... not degressed; your blinkered biases notwithstanding. LOL
1. Someone die; make you G-d -- and give you license to savagely and gratuitously personally attack?
2. And here I was, all this while, thinking that Psychopathological Projection Syndrome
[Ref: QUOTE: ..... there were 328,000 Bachelor degrees handed out to males and 103,000 "earned" by females ..... END QUOTE >> ]
was a symptom of the libbburrrrul disease!