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How We Used to Live (Levittown, Progress, and Expectations)

The Morgan Housel Podcast

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The Evolution of Expectations: From Levittown's Utopia to Today's Standards

This chapter examines how people's perceptions can blind them to broader realities and perspectives, using unseen colors as a metaphor. It further discusses the dramatic shift in societal expectations of living standards over the last eighty years, contrasting the idealized post-war Levittown with modern views on what constitutes a desirable home.

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