http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CIS2010000000000Q As I said, not a single 3 month period of quarterly decline in employment costs/overall compensation.
Not quite so basic, but that is one of the examples. Updates especially in the quality of those refrigerators certainly has improved, and some even have internet connections now. A coffee maker has an alarm clock that will make you coffee before you get up. Or my personal computer, a machine that enables you to look up any information you want to know. Like where my next statistical argument is coming from, or how much do people really understand about economics.
Right after WWII people in the US earned a lot less - and suburbia was still built on 1 income-earner in the family....
Why would I want to wear a skirt? What's funny in this thread, I take a look at the graph, then some guy as 200th posts says the poor steal more and more from the rich and it's despicable. Now I ask you to look at the graph, the line of the rich goes up, the line of the poor goes down, and still this guy says it's obvious that you can conclude from these two diverging lines that the poor steal more and more from the rich. Too funny! It does not surprise me anymore that the USA is only at 40th place of education in the world.
Good post, although in Europe and Asia I don't see the middle class disappearing and one doesn't need to have government contacts to make a very decent living (ie to become rich, although the top guns seem politically very well connected and you are definetely right a significant portion of this govenment spending goes into making the top guns richer) .
Yes, but what was the life standard of those families ?? Plenty of families still living on one adult's income btw, and living better than decades ago for the large majority.
This is a timeless thread. Nothing has changed since the beginning of recorded history. Where is the perfect society ?