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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's harder now than it used to be for folks with limited motivation, skills, and stamina. When it was easier to have a middle class lifestyle on a single salary, women who didn't want to work could get married and keep house (maybe not very well). Men could work in a factory or something else very structured and unchanging, with a simpler application process and less education needed. And they didn't have to do much around the house because their wife did it...and they didn't have to struggle to find a wife because women had fewer options (it was harder to be single or lesbian) and lower expectations for how men would act.

So the folks who look like duds today still existed back then, but it was easier for them to appear functional.[/quote]

This.  If you are a male dud, your uncle or your father would get you a job at the factory, and you'll be going there every day for the next 40 years, doing more or less the same thing.  If something changes, you'll get ample notice and training.  You'll be responsible for a handful of bills and wouldn't need much of executive functioning otherwise.  If you are a female dud, your family will make you pretty and marry off.[/quote]

Yep. Or you got with another dud and made it work.

I grew up in a LCOL, large Midwestern city. I knew several couples growing up who had two minimum wage jobs, and they owned homes. They weren’t the biggest or the most luxurious, but it was THEIR home. You can’t do that now.
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