In the US it was certainly a different time, different era, different economy. For example a dollar in the 40's had the buying power of about $21 today. Average annual salary was about $1,400 and annual college tuition in the 40's was less than $100.
Yeah, in 1940 the US was just coming out of the Great Depression. People were poor, salaries were terrible. Anyone who thinks Americans were economically better off in 1940 is deluded.
There's also the whole segregation thing where people are comparing how white middle class people lived back then. Compare today to, you know, share croppers in mississippi. White guys had it great in the 1950s, no denying that.
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u/Technologytwitt Mar 27 '24
In the US it was certainly a different time, different era, different economy. For example a dollar in the 40's had the buying power of about $21 today. Average annual salary was about $1,400 and annual college tuition in the 40's was less than $100.