> And because of the way the free market works despite the average family working twice as many hours as one in the fifties they're no better off IMO the fifti

> And because of the way the free market works despite the average family working twice as many hours as one in the fifties they're no better off IMO the fifties in the US were a total anomaly and they're not coming back ever. It was a time where (more than?) half of the world was taken out of competition due to idiotic economic system of communism, and Europe, the only potential competitor to the US, was still in shambles after the war. The US were a sole economic superpower, no wonder people had it great back then.