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> Back in the 1970s, the working class was winning

The working class today has higher wages and a higher quality of life.

If you’re a woman or any kind of minority, things are vastly better for you than in the 1970s. If you’re skilled, things are vastly better for you.

Unskilled white man labor was going to decline no matter what Reagan and Thatcher did as computers and automation changed production across the world.

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So, requiring two adult humans in a single household to work to be able to live comfortably, whereas before required only one, that is progress?

If you want to live with the same standard of living as in the 1970s, it doesn't require two people to work.

The percent of one person households has nearly doubled since the 1970s, so the increasing household income is even more impressive.

Your belief is opposite reality.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2019/comm/one-...

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