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Originally Posted by mgatepi
"The demographic of the American MC has been stagnation or decline since 1975. When Americans ran out of cash they resorted to credit to maintain the illusion of being MC. Since 2008....welll you know what I gots to say aboout that."
This is true to a point, the American MC did something else too....the wives went to work also! No more single income households. Mom and Dad both work to support the MC life style. And now we wonder why we have the societal issues.....no one is raising our kids.
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No doubt in most households both parents work now. It is not just the cost of living, or the wages. We lived in very modest houses, mostly rentals or base housing that was a crappy barracks type house, because we moved often. Dad was a Air Force officer. Not well paid and he often worked 80 hours weeks, never a penny of overtime, never a single Christmas bonus.
The big difference for today, the standard of living. We did not have an air conditioned house until I was in high school. We had one car. We did NOT have cable TV, internet and cell phones that cost 50 to 100 bucks each per month. We almost never ate out. Mom cooked at home. We did not go on cruises, or fancy vacations to Disney world.
The cost of living was way lower, and the standard of living was much lower. We never worried about going hungry, or being homeless. But we did not have designer clothes, and all the frills and electronics of common middle class citizens of today.
We did not have color a TV until 1967. And it was just one set. We had just one phone line and one phone.