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ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

A single wage no longer supports a household

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Why does a steady life take more than it used to?
Why is it harder to get by than it was for our parents?
Why is a secure standard of living harder to reach than a generation ago?

→ What leads to it (5)

Consolidation removes the employer competition that raised wages
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Every new rule consolidates the market a little more
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The system is designed so that trying harder changes little
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They think we spend too much and cannot see what things cost
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The measured rate of inflation is not the rate a young family faces
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→ What it leads to (5)

They think we spend too much and cannot see what things cost
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Both of us work and neither of us can be ill
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The things that used to be bought once are now rented forever
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Assets rose faster than wages for four decades
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Anyone without them was priced out of ever holding them
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