@futurebird exactly - you can still buy heirloom quality furniture today. Its just expensive.

I've seen a lot of the inverse too, which bugs me even more more, personally - "back in the day everyone was poor as dirt and we just had beans and cornbread, when we were lucky. Now we can eat whatever we want 3 meals a day and people still complain about being poor"

Sir, you came up, not everyone did.

@TheTenuousOrder @artemis a real conversation someone had with my wife recently went like:

Person: How can you afford to feed a family of four these days?

Wife: We eat a lot of cheap one pot meals like beans and rice and pasta

Person: Oh that's not good for you, those really pack on the weight

And of course, that person did not volunteer to supply us with fresh produce and whatever else they imagine we should be eating