News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees. Parent comment

Re:Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees by janalsncm on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:17PM (#49177448)
Median income of household was $3300 table A https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1952/demo/p60-00...

Median house $7300 https://better.com/content/how-much-home-prices-have-risen-s...

Today ratio is 5.1 https://housingalmanac.com/affordability

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees by s1artibartfast on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:10PM (#49178153)
That house was probably less than 2/5th of a modern house

You can get a 500sqft in podunk small town for quite cheap.

They weren't living in modern glass skyscrapers.

[ Parent | on HN ]