• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even going back to the way things were in the 70’s where workers got a fairer share of the products of their labour that wasn’t leeched away by non-productive shareholders would make a huge difference. There’s a reason you could buy a house on a single income when you had 5 kids back then.

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      1 year ago

      Hell we had deals where if you build the house yourself, they will give you the plot of land absolutely for free. But that was 30 years ago. I am absolutely sure people these days couldn’t do it - either not manually skilled enough, but have the money, or manually skilled, but their job doesn’t pay well enough to afford spending time building a house.

    • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Well, the 70s was before the time of Reagan and Thatcher coming in and wrecking unions and deregulating commerce and industry.