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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Totally agree. I do think most people start with single wage earner as "the good old days", and then sort of see the rest through rose colored glasses.
Personally, I think having to have two (or more) wage earners today is very common and very stressful. I have no recommendations on how to fix that, but, I think the BIG change is that after the depression people worked hard to ensure their children had a better life than they did. Then slowly just keeping up require two wages earners. That much stress - how to feed my family, how to pay for my children medicine, etc, etc, leads to depression and anxiety and that leads to anger and violence.
These used to be a saying, war can only occur in a country where the people feel they have nothing left to lose. We are approaching a minority feeling they have nothing left to lose.
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I agree with the last paragraph, but the reasons that it evolved this way are SIMPLE. Basically, in 1950 the US had somewhere around 150 million people. Today it is 350 million. For many reasons, today there is virtually no middle class. In 1950 for various reasons, there was a large and growing middle class - life was great on a comparative basis where you could equalize scientific and medical improvements down through the decades. Which is difficult to visualize!
.......Today we have the super-rich (like Bezos), the rich (top 20%), the medium poor (about 60%, and the super-poor (about 19%).
........" nothing left to lose"........that could explain the increases in speeding, auto accidental deaths, murders, and general crime. Also, Covid was a chaotic factor. And now we have a little chaser called loaming possible world war.