On 3/9/2016 8:32 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

This is from the Carpe Diem site written by Mark J.
Perry. Manufacturing workers can now buy 11 appliances
with 152 hours of labor what used to cost them 886 hours
of labor back in 1959.

But today those appliances have a lifetime of 5 years and back in 1959
they might keep running for 20 to 30 years.