Yes, You can afford a tradlife
This article discusses the misconception that the decline of the two-parent, one-income household signifies a decrease in American living standards. It argues that this decline is due to increased incomes and lower opportunity costs for not working, rather than poverty. The author suggests that most Americans could afford a traditional lifestyle if they chose to, but they prefer not to.
This model of household has declined not because people have gotten poorer but because they’ve become less poor.
What’s gone up is not the cost of living relative to a single earner’s wages, but the opportunity cost of the second adult not working.
Nothing is stopping a typical married American couple from accepting 1960s material conditions in exchange for one parent being a full-time homemaker. It’s just that most people don’t want that.
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