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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'm not sure it's telling the whole story.  At least what I've seen with my own two eyes in my lifetime, people were making a lot more money and had much nicer homes and possessions over the last few decades (especially the 1990's and most of the 2000's until the crash). |
I agree with you.
I remember being a kid, one of my role models was my doctor, a man named Doctor Gus. He was my childhood doctor for most of my youth. He drove a big gray Mercedes. Everyone else in the parking lot drove a Chevy or a Ford. I remember to this day how that car stood out in the parking lot. I remember my mother telling me that if I went to college, one day too I could drive a Mercedes.
Now I take a look and Mercedes is everywhere - BMW too. A friend of mine lives in an apartment complex and the other day I had to pick him up and noticed that nearly every car was brand new, Mercedes, BMW, Lexus.
The middle class has never lived so well. Middle class thirty years meant every family had a TV. Now middle class means every room in the house has a flat screen TV.