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Re:America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars by mellavora on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:32AM (#35260746)
I fail to see how larger TV sets equates to huge increase in living standards.

Maybe we could measure living standards by looking at mental health statistics? Percent of population on prescription mind-altering drugs?

Do bigger houses, leading to greater social isolation, actually represent an increase in living standards? I get that bigger house == bigger house, but maybe the metric is flawed.

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Re:America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars by BurningFrog on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:48AM (#35260936)
The Internet, and all other new technology the last 50 years is an enormous increase in living standards that's easy to forget.

Housing is a weird examples, since that's actually been getting worse, due to housing construction largely being banned.

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Re:America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars by supernewton on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:56AM (#35261027)
Do you honestly think the only thing that's changed about life between now and the 70s is your house and TV are bigger?
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