Gee, I wonder what happened...
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Well, let's see. Democrats and Unions started investing and shipping jobs to third-world countries around the world. The Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe. Japan became a rising manufacturing power. Unions took advantage of america being the sole super power to survive with their entire economy and manufacturing sectors intact after WWII to basically glut themselves on benefits, then spent the next 5 decades pissing them away instead of forcing the government and companies to retain them on-shore. Said manufacturing companies never adapted to competition, merely squeezed every penny they could find. Illegals. Government corruption. Massive downturns due to poor global leadership and artificial supply shortages created by investment bankers.
Aside from all that, it's really hard to tell.
True, true.
Also the major push to force women into the work force let the government tax the average household twice as much in addition to raising taxes generally. That one was basically equivalent to several decades of immigrants pouring in in terms of individual take home income.
Most people are interested in having kids and know that a child needs both a mother and a father. Previously couples could afford to have the mother stay home while the father made the money, which is the dynamic depicted in the OP picture.
Now that virtually all working class couples need the mother to work too to make child-rearing possible, we have a plethora of other issues fucking our kids up that people are forced into. Daycare, for example, is absolute shit. And then they go to public school in a similar way once they're school age and that's basically the same thing, and then computers went pocket-sized and parents are making the mistake of letting them raise their kids (though we were doing the same shit with TV before, not good either but clearly not as bad as smartphones/internet/social media).
But you are right, obviously it's easier financially if you don't have kids or a roastie spending all your money. I myself am currently in a recuperation period. I moved recently and decided, without going too much into detail, to downscale my cost of living significantly. I'm single and not currently looking for anyone because I need to build some stuff up first. But uh, I do want kids at some point, so.
Yeah yeah, women are horrible wretches dude, I know. Still gotta figure something out there if you want kids.
And I would definitely say that it's still most people. Obviously less than before but it's still definitely significantly above 50%. Especially in an area like where I am that hasn't lost its mind yet.
Keeping the home and children is valuable work, but it can't be taxed, doesn't help GDP line go up, and provides a barrier against the government control of children. Removing women's privilege to stay at home both drives down wages and increases gross taxes.
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This is part of it. In both healthcare and education there has been an absolute explosion of administrators relative to doctors and faculty. Faculty used to greatly outnumber administrators and now administrators greatly outnumber faculty. A lot of this is for regulatory compliance.
That's for sure. I remember I had a great aunt from that era, and her house was like visiting the 50s in real time. By modern standards it was a tiny house and it was in a small town, but she and her husband never seemed to put stock in buying things.
I even find it funny now in my era, I'd take an expensive trip or buy something nice and friends and family act like I'm some crazy rich person and they could never do that. Or they blame it on their kids they have and I don't because kids are "sooo expensive" etc. They fail to see my house costs half what theirs did or they don't remember that my cheap cell phones are usually the brunt of all their jokes, or that I haven't spent much on TV services for years now. I'm not saying a live a spartan existence, I most definitely don't. I'm just cognizant of things. I wouldn't be shocked with a lot of these people if I couldn't find $500/yr just in streaming services they pay for and almost never use.
To be fair, real estate developers only seem to make mcmansions nowadays outside of mobile homes, which depreciate in value and are incredibly hard to get insurance for. Buying the 50s style home also means, in several parts of America, living in immigrant and ghetto areas.
Also, mobile homes are now rolling McMansions. New ones in the 1400 square foot range are 100k plus.
r/mildlyinfuriating is designed to look...mildly infuriating.