@PopulistRight @sickburnbro @CrustyB @Escoffier i'm not sure how well the older system worked. better than today for sure. health care cost has gone up, the service has declined.

no doubt wall street is the problem. the more competition, the more cost associated with that. so if the people in charge just want money, they do whatever it takes to win, no matter how evil.

we also had a lot more general prosperity. like carpenters used to be able to buy a house. sub dividers used the crews for their first market. when the sites got too far away you could sell and move.

my dad, on one income, bought a house in redwood city ca in the 60s. he was a traveling salesman for an aluminum extrusion company. years later with us long gone, that house sold for $3M. nobody was buying it with any one income where you worked for what you got. the financialization of the economy, diverting the wealth to the non working wall street parasites