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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the December 2020 Atlantic article about The Simpsons if you want to see an even starker comparison:

The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable

"The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans. I refer, of course, to the Simpsons. Homer, a high-school graduate whose union job at the nuclear-power plant required little technical skill, supported a family of five. A home, a car, food, regular doctor’s appointments, and enough left over for plenty of beer at the local bar were all attainable on a single working-class salary. Bart might have had to find $1,000 for the family to go to England, but he didn’t have to worry that his parents would lose their home.

This lifestyle was not fantastical in the slightest—nothing, for example, like the ridiculously large Manhattan apartments in Friends. On the contrary, the Simpsons used to be quite ordinary—they were a lot like my Michigan working-class family in the 1990s.

The 1996 episode “Much Apu About Nothing” shows Homer’s paycheck. He grosses $479.60 per week, making his annual income about $25,000."[/quote]

Moe Szyslak would be a multimillionaire today if he were to sell his tavern or patent/trademark his "Flaming Moe" drink. (He basically invented "Lean")[/quote]

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