> the price of beans, CPUs and clothes may have fallen - but the price of education, healthcare, energy and especially housing have not fallen Over what time p

> the price of beans, CPUs and clothes may have fallen - but the price of education, healthcare, energy and especially housing have not fallen Over what time period do you mean? I'm pretty sure just about everything has a lower cost than it did 50 years ago, with the exception of real estate in neighborhoods where the population density has soared. If you don't insist on living in one of those neighborhoods, you can life that is better than what you'd have had in 1965 in every respect and spend less time working to support that lifestyle than you would have spent at that time for the inferior quality of life.