Comment by Workaccount2

>How we get that level of prosperity back?

By making everyone poorer. Seriously.

You are competing with your fellow citizens for those things. This was true even back then.

Right now, today, it has never been easier to make a lot of money working. So you need to compete with people in that environment. You need to be able to outbid those people for that beautiful home you want. In an environment of lots of educated and skilled workers getting skilled salaries for doing vary valuable work. That's where the bar is.

We can lower the bar back to blue-collar-high-school-diploma, but then we need to also sacrifice all those high earning college degree jobs.

Not going to happen.