How are we doing? Prosperity manifests itself in all sorts of ways. Americans today, particularly the poor, enjoy benefits they could never have dreamed of in 1905 and 1955, according to this piece in the American.
1. Products and conveniences have spread into American households.
2. The poor have much, much more.
3. What hard work buys you…
4. Getting more for less effort.
5. We’re safer at work and home.
This pieces also discusses the price of economic pessimism, which interestingly the Left thrives on in order to demagogue and push us in the direction of socialism (does this track with the performance of their stocks? Money, meet mouth). Pessimism notwithstanding, your $10,000 investment in the Dow circa 1980 would now be worth $288,163 – despite even the last few rocky months.
-Max Borders
Unfortunately, the assertion that the poor have much, much more is of negligible or no significance in the mating market
Even if a poor single heterosexual male has much, much more – and I’m not yet willing to stipulate – he has effectively gained little or nothing – and has quite possibly lost ground – in the mating market.
The claim – even if supported with fact – that a poor single heterosexual male has much, much more, or that he is “rich” by global standards, makes him no more marriageable than he was before he made these supposed economic gains.
If you had read some of George Gilder’s early works, you might real,ize that things are not so hot for poor single heterosexual men.