Well I'm not American, but if I was American I would like to feel like tens of billions of dollars of tax money didn't go towards nothing. Especially if I was paying high gas prices and high tariffs already under the guise of reducing the deficit. Just saying.

I guess they had to send people because what happens if outlook fails and no one sees it fail. Then has it failed?

Can anyone explain how this has moved humanity ahead?

We can't. The assholes are still holding us too far back. And anyway, America will be the last to be able to do it. A lot of assholes.

It's saying the average house after being adjusted to 1950s standard. It's referring to the average in the study not the average in America.

Well Trump is doing pretty horrible, to be fair to them.

No one is saying Iran are the good guys. We are just saying that Iran isn't worth the cost and expense. I thought Trump was trying to reduce the deficit?? There are ways that we could accomplish this through diplomacy so I'm just wondering why that hasn't been tried.

The data provided are *equivalent houses*.

You say you understand the point that a person in 1950's expected only things from the 1950's but then you end off by reiterating the same statement. Do you lament your life in 2026 because there are no fully realistic sex-bots? No because we don't even know if that will ever be possible. So you go without sex at all.

Maybe Copilot can explain it to you:

Here’s a plainlanguage explanation, focused on the United States, of how housing costs have changed compared with inflation since the 1950s.

In the 1950s, the typical U.S. home cost around $7,000–$8,000. If you adjust that price for general inflation, that same home would cost roughly $90,000–$100,000 in today’s dollars [1](https://www.noradarealestate.com/blog/average-house-price-in-1950/)[2](https://historyfacts.com/us-history/article/what-did-a-house-cost-during-the-baby-boom-1950s-1960s/).

Today, the average U.S. home price is well over $400,000, and in many states it is much higher than that.

What happened compared to inflation?

• Overall inflation since 1950 has increased prices by roughly 10–12 times. In other words, something that cost $1 in 1950 costs about $10–$12 today [3](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/).
• Home prices, however, have increased by 40–50 times over the same period.
• That means housing has risen about 3 to 5 times faster than inflation overall [4](https://brilliantmaps.com/us-houses-prices-1950-2024/)[5](https://gotozuby.com/2025/08/04/us-home-price-history-from-1890-to-2025).

Put simply:
If housing had only kept pace with inflation, the average home today would cost under $100,000. Instead, it costs several hundred thousand dollars.

Another way to see it

Looking state by state, researchers find that every U.S. state has seen home prices rise more than inflation since the 1950s:

• The smallest increases were still about double inflation
• Many states saw housing rise 300% to 500% more than inflation
• Some highdemand areas saw increases over 600% above inflation [4](https://brilliantmaps.com/us-houses-prices-1950-2024/)

Why housing outpaced inflation

In simple terms, three big forces pushed housing above inflation:

1. Land became scarcer, especially in cities
2. Demand rose faster than supply as population and household formation grew
3. Cheap credit and zoning limits pushed prices up rather than encouraging more building

Economists and longterm data agree that, unlike food or clothing, housing is not just a consumer good—it’s also an investment, which helped drive prices far beyond inflation over time [5](https://gotozuby.com/2025/08/04/us-home-price-history-from-1890-to-2025)[6](https://www.realbricks.com/articles/us-housing-prices-since-1950).

Bottom line

Since the 1950s, U.S. housing costs have risen several times faster than inflation, turning homeownership from something within reach of the average worker into a much larger financial hurdle than it used to be.

If you’d like, I can also:

• Compare this to wages, or
• Look at Canada specifically, or
• Break it down by decade instead of the full period

Just tell me what would be most useful.

Anyone sane would just be trying to hold out until midterms, at which point things may change quickly. If not until Trump's term is over when things will definitely change.

Why does Donald Trump swear at religious extremists? Just the candor that he takes against them justifies fighting in their minds.

And yet still be beating the US.

Ok but again, that is a normal living space in 1950 and they were fine with it. You can't look back on it now and claim you are happier than they are because you have a bigger house now. All enjoyment of life is relative to others living at that time. I don't know how to make you understand the cpi thing with regards to housing. But you admit that I am even underestimating how much more expensive things have gotten and that's good enough for me. Let me just leave with one more thought: in 1950 most people could afford a two bedroom apartment on minimum wage. Now that cannot be done anywhere in the US, we just lost the last affordable places to live a couple years ago.. it was on Slashdot in fact.

Every society is going to have lazy people. The level headed people will need to cover for them without having third grade recess tantrums and that's just how it is. But that's what I mean by level headed people.. no fit of jealousy the instant someone else is perceived to have more.

Today's grocery clerks earn higher wages in both nominal and inflation-adjusted terms, but those gains are overshadowed by by the rapid rise in housing costs. Rent and home prices have grown far faster than wages and also food prices. Also, I found out that the CPI measures consumption not investments. So housing costs are not reflected the same way that you would think. Overall, house prices and rents have increased 4x the accepted rate of inflation. Thus life was far more affordable in the 50s. You are talking about AC, but you don't need AC to live. In fact since residential AC was not even INVENTED in the 50's you wouldn't have wanted air conditioning anyway so it's not something that they wanted but could not afford in the 50's because they didn't know what it was.