alt Hacker NewsWhile it's true that it was possible to support a family on a single unskilled laborer income in the '50s, their standard of living was far below anything most people would accept today.
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A single income family in US with the husband working at a factory in fifties and sixties could afford a home with washing machine, dish washer, TV and a phone. Surely the home was smaller, but it was easier to clean, the TV screen was tiny, but then the family can go to a cinema. There was no internet, but for information one could go to the library. So how it was far below what people in US could accept today?
Depends how you measure, surely. They had less TVs and computers and prepackaged food, the same amount of sunlight, and more freedom (as measured by average income to rent ratio).
>While it's true that it was possible to support a family on a single unskilled laborer income in the '50s
I'm not even sure that is true. Poverty in the US was higher in the fifties and sixties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/...