re: I'm sick of people saying the middle class is worse off than 4 decades ago.

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It's not either or man.

If you're going to say, "I could have had this lower expense in 1970", then I'm going to point out, you could have had less benefit.

I mean, your car is a necessity today but it sure as frick is a benefit too. If I have to explain that to you, go look at pics of 1900.

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Even a car is not necessarily a necessity depending upon where you live. Of course since cash for clunkers obliterate the used car market, now we have an enormous car bubble of non-performing car loans thanks to people being forced to buy cars they couldn't afford since old used cars that were cheap were all gone.

Less benefit sure but you had less requirements to live. I imagine we're going to see similar shite in the future with biotechnology and augmented reality where you cannot live without the items.