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| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
If you're gonna make the argument, at least use correct numbers..
1950:
Average Cost of new house $8,450.00
Average wages per year $3,210.00
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950.html
So a house used to cost 2.6X annual wages.
At the peak of the 2007/08 bubble, the median house price was $240k..while the average income was around $40k. So prices had inflated to 6X annual wages. |
Of course, the differences in the cost of a house you’ve mentioned here isn’t just tied to inflation over time; certainly the bubble in particular is based upon what people were willing to spend on a house, not just the fact that their dollar wasn’t worth as much. House prices in Australia have doubled in the last ~10 years, but the value of our currency hasn’t halved.
The points that CTs like iStupid always ignore is that while the value of $1 is worth less today than 60 years ago, people also earn considerably more. More than 10x in your assessment. Idiots like him would try and pretend the US was better off during the Great Depression, because a dollar was worth so much more then. Typical CT stupidity!
Last edited by pkcRAISTLIN on Jul-06-2010 at 06:21
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