Posted by JimS on December 26, 2020 at 07:54:00 from (73.162.231.210):
In Reply to: Shop Rates posted by K-Mo on December 26, 2020 at 07:28:01:
You are also comparing apples and oranges. Consider the shop rate for repairing a model T back whenever to the rate of repairing the latest car today. The knowledge, the tools, the diagnostic equipment, the materials everything is made of from the vehicles, to the tools, to the shop, are light years apart. Also, people are not living with what they lived with back whenever you want to compare data from. What is consider essential in a household, personal life or business is vastly different between then and now. Another thing to consider is the efficiencies in farming have increased the volume of crop harvested and the time needed to plant, care, and harvest. Perhaps if we went back to the method of farming that was prevalent in the era you cite, maybe crop prices would rise and people would have less disposable income for other things.
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