Good point.

Not where I lived. In Chicago most people, including minorities, had over minimum wage jobs also a highly unionized work force.

...and more stuff, and even more stuff. I wish I'd invested in storage units 40 years ago.

@Condor5 And most of it is made in China. Maybe that is actually a good thing to Trump's tariff war. We won't be able to afford as much stuff and life will be better.

@rogueflyer funny, I was thinking along the same lines.?

@Condor5 George Carlin's daughter said his father was high 90% of the time. Yet he is so quick! I don't know how he did it. This is his comment on "stuff". .

@rogueflyer still on point, still relevant. The guy was a comic genius. That reminds me of a couple of trips I took on the commuter train from Ventura County to downtown L.A. several years ago. Riding along in the train, you skirt almost endless housing developments, whose backyards you can see quite well. Many, probably well over half, of those backyards were filled with, you guessed it, "stuff."

@rogueflyer In the 50's and early 60's it was Japan that sent cheap shit here, part of our helping them back to prosperity. Look what happened!

I think a lot of people spent a lot of time working, hoping to get ahead... and most who diddo that found at the end of their life that ecasue they spent most of their time working, they didnt' realy enjoy their life.

@snytiger6 I agree with you, to an extent, but my father was a curious guy and seemed to like to stay busy, to keep his mind occupied. He was never ambitious in the "get rich" sort of way, though. He definitely enjoyed life, or at least never railed against it, or thought it unfair, that I recall.