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Re: Joining Apple 40 years ago

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> that is a breathtaking amount of inflation in just 35 years. That's under 3% inflation which is a not breathtaking. The Fed targets 2%, which helps avoid deflationary spirals and helps both stability and lowers unemployment, two of their mandates. >Even if wages kept up with inflation, Wages have surpassed inflation in just about every income bracket for the past 100 years. And when you factor in total remuneration…

> Wages have surpassed inflation in just about every income bracket for the past 100 years. And when you factor in total remuneration, returns to workers are even higher. Here's 50+ years of data [1] > [1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44705.pdf This document is 47 pages long. Can you cite the page or section you're referring to?

Lots of pages show the data in various ways. The chart Fig 5 on page 7 is pretty clear for household income. Table 2 page 34 shows every quintile becoming richer over time. Lots of the content also explains forces affecting this.

There's plenty of such studies from the Fed and from CBO, among others.

Re: Joining Apple 40 years ago

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Talking about the size of living space in a discussion of free marking housing costs is irrelevant. The only fact that matters is cost per unit area, the free market will decide how much area people are willing to pay for (assuming, of course, that there is a free market that is able to construct smaller or larger living spaces. Japan has one of these, whereas the United States typically does not thanks to most munic…

mandate a certain space between houses Just want to note that this is in part for fire reasons... require getting special zoning board approval to subdivide your lot ...and this is for traffic and services management.

Absolutely, public policy is nothing if not the art of tradeoffs
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