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> But the secular tendency is there, it is the
> tendency to reduce costs...
Sure, when you leave off, in order of increasing necessity, college, health care and a house to live in, things look g-r-r-reat! I paid $250 for 512KB of RAM (36 256Kbit DIPs) for my 80286 peecee in '87.
> Andie says that his dad could afford to send
> three children to college. I am glad to hear
> that, but US college enrollments have been
> climbing again, after a big dip in the mid 80s,
> so that now they stand at 27.8 million as
> opposed to 20 million in 1967.
That's not even keeping up with population growth, see:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf
Also it was a lot more likely for Joe Mdian to get that median-wage job without a college degree in 1967 than it is today.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net