On 10/13/13 5:44 PM, Neill Massello wrote:
Dean Hoffman " wrote:
He has ten other examples of decreasing work hours needed to buy given
items.
And concludes that everybody is getting richer, which is quite
unwarranted unless the time cost of little things like food, housing,
transportation, medical care, education, and taxes are also taken into
account. This kind of half-baked, disingenuous crap is about the only
thing AEI puts out any more. Like many of the other so-called
"conservative" or "free enterprise" organizations, it has largely become
a shill for big business.
A bit here about U.S. house sizes:
http://tinyurl.com/ldc2ms2
House sizes roughly doubled since the 1950s despite family size
decreasing. Houses have been getting a bit smaller lately. Maybe
people are regaining their sanity.