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Old 04-19-2009, 03:57 PM   #1
Clodfobble
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Originally Posted by sugarpop
I DO think all people who work hard should be compensated well enough to live comfortably and have a life.
But the bar of "comfortably" keeps getting raised. 60 years ago, it was generally a given that your family had one car, and would manage to save up enough to buy their first three-bedroom house by the time the kids were 7-10 years old. That was middle-class; that was "comfortable." Now most people would call that poor, to only be able to afford one car.
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