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Right, but staying on topic in terms of available material goods and income, I don't think available goods and resources was as bad as this thread was making i

• lotsofpulp 3y ago
  Are antibiotics and vaccines and other healthcare “available material goods”? I had two great grandmothers that lost the majority of their children as babies/toddlers. I think a lot of people are not accounting for the costs of risks during that time. If everything went well, the rain was on time, no other nations attacked, no one fell ill, there were no birthing complications, then life was okay. But nature usually throws a few curveballs.
  • vivekd 3y ago
    This is an empirical question that I feel you are trying to twist into a political one. The sole question is can you on 100 dollars a month today live in a manner similar to what the average person in the 20s did The empirical questions are what does 100 a month buy you today and what was the average lifestyle of a person in the 20s in terms of how much would it cost to buy that lifestyle today Questions of how we got feminnism and better medicine since then is irrelevant and trying to distort a simple empirical analysis into a political one
    • pixl97 3y ago
      Attempting to argue counterfactuals while negating the factors that occured to cause the world to exist in a particular state at a particular time isn't ever going to lead to a conversation you like. The resource cost and availability that existed in 1920 were because of non-empirical decisions like politics and societies adaptations to new technologies. It's like you're taking a still frame of an avalanche and looking for a flat spot to build a foundation.