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To: Whitebeard who wrote (267369)	9/10/2008 3:29:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794562

Yup. But it wasn't until the single-earner male couldn't support his family because the system was no longer capable of paying him a sufficient salary. Only if you recognize that "sufficient" is a psychological statement. The average standard of living today is way, way higher than it was in the 1950s. One salary could still support a 50s lifestyle. It got behind the movement because capitalism wasn't going to pay the middle-class male worker enough to support a stay at home mom and kids anymore cart and horse again. Capitalism pays what the labor market says it must pay, neither more nor less.