On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:57:53 -0500, Dean Hoffman
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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.

I see no evidence that they're getting smaller. There are a dozen or
so going up in my neighborhood, all of which are in the 3000-4000ft^2
range. All five and six bedroom. The smallest in the neighborhood is
about 2500ft^2 but none of the new ones are that small. No one is
building small houses (2000ft^2) around here.

Sanity? Is your left leg that much shorter than your right?