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Gregg Easterbrook on the American Standard of Living

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The Transition Over the Last 100 Years in America

We all tend to idealize the good old days and the golden era by gone. Most of the examples we've been talking about are referring to the last 10, 20, 30 years. My guess would be if there were a time machine and you could take a one-way trip back into any year before the year of your own birth and just live there as an average person. I mean, I think just what American life was like 100 years ago. At that time less than 1% of the population attended college.

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