Comment by ssl-3

I mean: If you came up to me and asked about how the value of the dollar and average lifestyles compare between the 1950s and today, I wouldn't be able to answer that either. If you forced an answer on the spot, then I'd have to guess at it -- and that guess would probably be a wrong.

I simply don't know the specifics because that was 70 years ago and I wasn't around back then. I do feel confident that I could eventually produce a good answer (or perhaps even a great answer), but I'd have to do some homework in order to produce that answer.

But without that homework, it's just not something that I can relate to because my present perspective does not include it.

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Meanwhile: If you asked random people on the streets of Anytown, USA about what they feel about price of a Big Mac or rent today compared to 5 years ago, it might be rational to expect to get some pretty direct and sometimes livid responses.