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Re:How the World Is Getting Better by slaw on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:18PM (#35490173)
66% in 2022 are paid? No mortgage? How does that compare to 1900?
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Re:How the World Is Getting Better by InspiredIdiot on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:24PM (#35490210)
No progress since 1980, unfortunately. Just oscillated a few points up and down from 65% https://www.census.gov/econ/currentdata/dbsearch?programCode...
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Re:How the World Is Getting Better by latency-guy2 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:43AM (#35491414)
It's not an "unfortunately", the U.S. population has increased 50% since 1980, using US census markers ~226m in 1980 to ~331m in 2020. It's an amazing benchmark to be at the same ownership rate despite growing this much in such a short time frame.

Further, ownership going beyond certain numbers does not necessarily mean good either.

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Re:How the World Is Getting Better by rufus_foreman on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:37PM (#35490285)
Is asking questions to nobody in particular that you can easily answer yourself your idea of an argument?
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