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To: neolib who wrote (51664)	3/4/2008 6:59:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543224

hey are getting smaller, worse houses. Nonsense. People are getting bigger better houses, and then in those houses they have more and better "stuff", and in the driveway they have better cars, they travel more, and in all sorts of ways involving money and possessions (rather than in social and emotional terms, which can't easily be measured and isn't what I'm talking about) they have better lifestyles. This is true whether your looking at the overall averages or at what someone at the median income level has. Total debt has increased but not enough to make up for these changes. Where I will agree with your premise, is that in the areas where productivity has a large impact, things have gotten much better. In these areas things have gotten much better, overall they have gotten better (but not by as much, because other areas have improved slower, stayed the same, or in some cases even gotten worse)