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Originally Posted by Baron Morte
The point i was trying to make is that today its like 30% better on everything, however we got 100% more parents working (2, up from one)
Of course, taking out the improvements that would naturally occur due to new techs and stuff
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Yes, technological progression has helped increase the quality of these services (notably health care). But such progress did not occurr in a pre determined vacuum, interdependent of socioeconomic policy. If such policy up until now had kept women at home rather than at work, we would have had for the past 50/60/70/80* years, a society whose workforce was effectively halved. I imagine this would have affected our technological advancement somewhat, along with eradicating all discoveries made by women.
Also. Not all improvements in these services are resultant from technological advances. Infact, technological improvements have rather little to do with the improvements we've seen in education and transport. Rather it's based on us spending shitloads more money on it. It costs us more to use/fund, not because our personal wealth has dwindled, but because the service is of a much higher standard and consequently runs at a much higher cost.
One reason why we're spending such vastly increased sums on these services is because as we increase what is on offer, we also increase peoples expectations. A good example of this is you feeling like you're financially worse off than those in the past despite it being very much the other way around.
*let me know which one!