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@Betty Boop re: minimum wage/milk
Your post got me pretty interested in what things cost relative to wages in the days before we lived on credit, so I looked up info for 1950. Actually, a gallon of milk cost MORE than the minimum wage: 82 cents for milk, 75 cents for work. (The average yearly income was $3,216.)
People simply did not accumulate the way they do now, in terms of home size, cars, clothes, entertainment, appliances (and certainly not electronics), eating out, books and records, you name it.
Back in the 1950s, "propaganda" was a word heard nearly every day, but somehow only applied to that nasty nation behind the "Iron Curtain." What would be the correct word for the process by which we've bought in to how much STUFF we must buy, buy, buy, and now, now, now. ..