Paul wrote:
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> - Start by admitting this is apples vs. oranges. There will
> not be one phony number that psuedo-answers the question. This is
> more professional but also brings us closer to a larger social truth:
> that we are comparing different lifestyles that might offer pluses and
> minuses. People should have wider choices than they might think.
This is also relevant to the question of comparing two different time periods in the same nation. Giving more weight to it would undercut the arguments of both the nostalgic and the bumptious (regress vs progress) in such arguments.
Carrol