[lamp987]

you really underestimate the living standards of 1950. in many ways higher than today.

[lovecg]

I’m curious which ways you mean. Many things that we assume existed in the past were pretty unevenly distributed. Even something basic we take for granted like plumbing was only available in only a ~third of households in some states https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-plumb...

[ianburrell]

A good example is that in the 1950, 61% of households had a telephone. It got above 90% in 1970, peaked in 2000, and stopped tracking in 2008.