On: How could Al Bundy afford a house when he was maki...

[arp242]

And all this things are vastly cheaper almost anywhere else in the world. And almost everywhere government is hugely more involved than the U.S. And I don't mean just "Europe": also South-America and Asia.

But maybe the U.S. is a super-special case and whatever works for the rest of the world doesn't work for the US shrug.

[WalterBright → arp242]

When I attended Caltech, I paid for junior and senior year tuition, room and board with a job that paid $5/hr. No loans, no scholarship, no subsidy.

Single family home ownership rates were the highest in the world.

Healthcare cost a tiny fraction of what it does now.