From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 16:31:34 MDT
matus wrote:
> Lee Daniel Crocker:
>
>
>>>(Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
>>>
>>>Are you going to address housing and the other implied
>>>necessities or just harp on your understanding of food
>>>abundances (but not necessarily food prices). If I have no home
>>>or cooking facilities the types of food I can buy are also
>>>severely limited and per unit of nutrition much more expensive.
>>> Are you going to attempt to say that the cost of living in say
>>>1970 dollars has not risen and risen dramatically in the last 32
>>>years?
>>
>>If he doesn't, I will. Life is much better and cheaper than it
>>was in 1970, by the only measure that matters: amount of labor
>>for goods comsumed.
>>
>
>
> Indeed, it is better today than it has been at *any* time in the past
> throughout human history.
Uh huh. Pls explain why most Americans have no savings, why two
earner households are the norm and considered nearly required,
why a house costs me much more as a percentage of income, even
in areas not so expensive than when in my father's time although
I make 25 times more than he did. Standard of living is NOT
better now according to the studies I have seen.
- samantha
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