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Default Household goods affordability

On Sunday, October 13, 2013 2:31:57 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:46:48 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:



On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:15:48 -0500, Dean Hoffman


" wrote:






According to the Carpe Diem site one had to work 885 hours in 1959


to earn the same goods as one can earn working 170 hours in 2013.




More he http://tinyurl.com/lrq8suo




One would work about 28 hours to buy a gas stove in 2013 compared to


almost 91 hours in 1959. He has ten other examples of decreasing work


hours needed to buy given items.






Thanks for posting that. I've often used the "how many hours" in


discussions. Prices on many goods have come down and are of better


quality. Such as the color TV. I also recall paying $5 for a really


good white dress shirt (made in USA) in the early 1960's. Not as good


quality, but you can get shirts for $15 at discount stores (made in


some third world country) .


And the good quality, american dress shirt is about $60, more or

less.


What American dress shirts for $60? I haven't seen one in years.
The typical quality dress shirt made overseas retails for $45 - $60.