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

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Household income has been dropping recently even though wages, while not great, have gone up.

Looking back at my post regarding marriage rates, do you grasp it yet?

Here. I'll help.

If you had 100 people. Each make 1000 a year. There are 50 men and 50 women. They're all married.

What's the household income?

Now, make 25 of them get divorced.

Change nothing else.

Tell me their household income.

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1 person makes 1k a year. A married couple makes 2k /yr joint. There household income is 2k.

50 couples* 2k = 100k total population income

50 couples @ 2k/yr household income = 100k married pop

25 men @ 1k/yr household = 25k
25 woment @ 1k/yr household = 25k

Total single pop household income = 50k

The total population income is still 100k

However, the 25 men and women who divorced saw their household income drop 50%.

So you are implying that divorce is the number one contributor to economic downfall?

edited: math error