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 households richer. It halved the value of a single paycheck and doubled the tax base.
The state took the second income and kept the kids.
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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.
To add on this… follow the money…
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I think you’re correct. Working to get back here will take some time and intentionality.
Let's not forget about the role of the bretton-woods system during that era. Lots of riches in your country came from running this fiat game that eventually came to an end. The end was inevitable.
Maybe there’s a drawback to feminism? Some good, like independence, and some bad, like 1/12 autistic boys born in California.
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