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It cracks me up when I hear political candidates, pundits, or everyday folk say,

we need to return to the glory days where traditional values reigned.

Really? If you ask them, okay, when were the glory days that you speak of? The glory days of

prosperity and health and traditional values. What decade in the history of America do you deem as the best decade,

economically, socially, and culturally? Think about that for yourself. Which decade would you

pick? Well, across generations, across all socioeconomic groups, people overwhelmingly point to one decade,

the 1950s. Is that the decade that you were

thinking about? The 1950s is remembered as, quote unquote, the golden age of middle class prosperity

in America. At least it's how it's remembered. What's fascinating to me about the nostalgia for the

1950s is how easy it is to disprove that assertion

that we were better off than than we are today. By almost any economic or social or societal

measure that there is, the median American household and our society as a whole is so much better

off today than we were in

any period during the 1950s. I'm telling you it is not even close. Economically, median household

income adjusted for inflation is more than two times today than it was in the 1950s. Life expectancy,

access to medical care, education access, and attainment.

Most any metric that you want to think about, we are better off today, as in dramatically

better off today than we were in the 1950s. In the 1950s, diseases were rampant. Children still

suffered from a lot of terrible diseases, including measles and mumps and chickenpox and scarlet fever

and polio and others. The very common vaccines that we have today have saved millions of children,

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