[buscoquadnary]

I agree it's those damn regulations like lousy "worker protections" and boring stupid taxes like SS and "unemployment" back in my day you'd show up to a group of men pick out the 5-10 strongest and give em 5 bucks at the end of the day if they survived. I don't understand why we can't go back to that, I mean I hear people complaining about lead all the time but I drank out of lead plumbing all my life and am fine.

I mean seriously this minimum wage crap to makes things so expensive, plus I lost half my workforce when I couldn't send 12 year olds down to the mines anymore.

Like I am sympathetic to your argument but to compare the standard of living between now and Therou using one variable and then blaming it on regulations is absurd.

Also you say no electricity very flippantly I don't know about you but the thought of not having to start a fire in the morning when it is 3 degrees outside in order to have warmth is appealing toe.

[throw8383833jj]

EDIT: I think you're saying that the overall compensation for workers was lower then (due to fewer sick days, all the things you mentioned etc) than now due to lack of regulation. What the stats say, is that compensation was actually much higher back then than now. You got paid 1/800th of a house per day whereas today, you get paid 1/5000th of a house per day.

The regulations I'm talking about that account for the cost of housing are things that allow builders to provide more cost effective buildings. Afterall what other inputs are there: land, cost of labor, building materials and the cost of dealing with regs (non-labor related).

[jjk166]

I mean if I could get a mid 1800s house for 800 days of unskilled labor (~80k) and hire someone to wire it for electricity (~20k) that would be an excellent deal compared to what's available.

[throw8383833jj]

don't forget, these days, that once you "pay for it", you'll pay another 50-100% of it's value in rent to the gov "property taxes" over the next 50 years.