Your source only includes married couples with children, not Americans in general. There's many variables that changed to fulfil that definition in the meantime. For example, these days said couples tend to be older,…
> They almost never had to, so that's a pretty lousy bar to use. That's a pretty naive thing to say IMO. Humans almost always had to work that much, especially after agriculture was invented.
> A single family household from a single high school educated worker could support a house, a car, children, a non working spouse, food and utilities. I'm not sure things are much different today vs back then. Two…
Your source only includes married couples with children, not Americans in general. There's many variables that changed to fulfil that definition in the meantime. For example, these days said couples tend to be older,…
> They almost never had to, so that's a pretty lousy bar to use. That's a pretty naive thing to say IMO. Humans almost always had to work that much, especially after agriculture was invented.
> A single family household from a single high school educated worker could support a house, a car, children, a non working spouse, food and utilities. I'm not sure things are much different today vs back then. Two…