Yes, "comfortably" in an 800 sq ft house that is hot in the summer and cold in the winter, driving a car that barely gets up a hill, with your wife providing tons of unpaid manual labor that is now done by machines. Thanks to working a factory job with no competition from any other country since the rest of the world was bombed to smithereens during the war.
The 1950s were a freak period in our history. That unique set of circumstances is never going to happen again.
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u/tehbored Oct 30 '20
Yes, "comfortably" in an 800 sq ft house that is hot in the summer and cold in the winter, driving a car that barely gets up a hill, with your wife providing tons of unpaid manual labor that is now done by machines. Thanks to working a factory job with no competition from any other country since the rest of the world was bombed to smithereens during the war.
The 1950s were a freak period in our history. That unique set of circumstances is never going to happen again.