• @mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I lived it for a few brief years in the 70s then Reagan fucked us all

    It was absolutely true. The only families not on single income were hard laborers or non-managerial retail/fast food and even then a carpenter could easily feed a family of 5.