You don't even need to compare to tech that didn't exist. How many projects apartments from 1970 would you have to combine to assemble a full suite of working

You don't even need to compare to tech that didn't exist. How many projects apartments from 1970 would you have to combine to assemble a full suite of working appliances and utilities. Now run that same test for the rural shacks and early mobile homes. How many of those people owned cars, a decent set of seasonally appropriate clothing, got their nails done, ate fresh produce out of season, etc. etc. etc? Now run that comparison for 2021. We're a fuckton richer. But proportional increases in the amount of our income sapped by shelter, education and medical care have more or less cancelled out all the gains in material wealth.