Average family

[Brad De Long]

>kelley wrote:
>>  > correct me if i'm wrong, but that IS what 1900 house is about yes?  a
>>  > middle class family's lifestyle.
>
>Carrol Cox:
>>  And since the meaning of "middle class" is entirely subjective -- that is,
>>  since it does not hold the same connotation (Mill's use) for almost
>>  any two writers or readers, what the book is essentially about is nothing
>>  at all.
>
>When I first heard of this, I thought it was a mere entertainment,
>like televised bungee-jumping, but given some of the uses of
>it I've seen here, I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't either
>an artifact of propaganda in favor of unrestrained, continuous
>industrialism for its own sake ("progress") or the mass-media
>equivalent of a troll.
>
>Obviously, conditions in 1900 were in no way pre-industrial
>or non-technological, and in any case no serious conclusion
>can be drawn about people from a hundred years later being
>easily able to accustom themselves to its peculiarities.
>
>But this is the carping voice of the skeptic.

...and of someone from a gender that gets to avoid doing the laundry...