re: When men worked and women took care of the family. Are we better or worse?

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Materialism and credit happened. We could easily go back, but you wouldn't have those two nice, new vehicles, wouldn't have a 3000 sf house. Your kids wouldn't be in travel ball 5 nights/week, you wouldn't vaca on 30 A, you wouldn't have a $30k boat or a $20k SxS, nor a deer/duck lease and would you rarely eat out.

In the 70s/80s, no one had that. You might have one piece of crap car for the family and a 1500 sf ranch for 5 or 6 people. No cell phones, internet, cable, etc. No eating out, one trip to the grocery a week, if you ran out of what wanted to eat, tough. If a teenage wanted a car, he/she worked to buy it.

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You’re right, but I don’t think any of that has really made people truly happy. We think it will, and it does occupy our time and money, but I don’t think it fulfills anyone.


It’s the trap most of us fall for, only to age and come to the realization that it’s just stuff.