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One income built a house, fed a family, and put kids through school in 1965.
That wasn’t abundance. That was the baseline.
Doubling the labor supply through “liberation” didn’t make household...
I've been wondering recently. Wasn't it a unique time and place in the entire human history? The myth of the post-war U.S. economic reality. Was there ever like that anywhere? Maybe we shouldn't compare our situation to the absolute peak and complain about it? It's not a research-based argument, rather a draft of a thought.