Growing up in the 70s, you could buy a house for 15,000 dollars. A car new cost 2,000 dollars. A truck cost about 4,500 dollars. No bottled water just a garden hose. No computers just a corded telephone. Play outside was a thing. All day and go home when dark out. Or you had to take a bath for school the next day. Today's kids don't know how to socialize. They are skiddish and nervous to talk to their peers or any adults. The cellphones have done way more harm than good. But that ship has sailed. Anyway, inflation was bad with Carter when we left the gold standard. I could buy a bag of candy for 25 cents. A snikers bar was 25cents. A comic book was 5 cents. Wages were about 3 dollars an hour. As a man you could support a large family of 5 to 8 children on a high-school diploma. Now, to adjust your thinking. Look at the testing to graduate HS, it's tough. Our college kids would not be able to answer these questions. College was very tough and affordable. The janitor dad could afford a house, a car, and his children while sending the oldest off to college all on a janiors pay. It was a different time. And will never come again.