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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Ill_Card5269 on 2023-09-12 22:29:24.
So I keep seeing people talking on the internet saying that some 50 years ago, you could have bought a house or gotten a mortgage, by basically working a minimum wage job, and it got me curious was life actually cheap “back in the day” or is it something that is false?
No it’s because wages haven’t kept up with inflation. The lesson is not that the past was cheap but the future, especially in the USA, is expensive.