
America Didn’t Get More Expensive — Your Time Got Cheaper (Extended Cut)
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Sean Tumilson and co-host Chuck the Bot explain why life feels so expensive and it feels like you have so little free time even when that may not be the reality...
Let’s Start With a Simple Question: How Much Did People Used to Work?
The Mid-Century Sweet Spot (That Wasn’t Normal)
The Break: When Time Stopped Gaining Value
Why “Hours Worked” Is a Misleading Metric
Now Let’s Compare You to Other Countries
So What Did Get Cheaper? Goods or Time?
A Different Way to Measure Standard of Living
Why This Happened (Structural, Not Moral)
So How Do You Make Your Time More Expensive?
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