how many hours do you have to work for a house, page-2

And 50 years or so before that you could go and stake out a piece of land and build a house in from the trees in the surrounding area. Guess by the article's logic then things were so much harder 50 years ago than the 50 years prior to that. Things change that is the reality!

"Take into account other increases in the cost of living and the devaluation of your money, it's no wonder the quality of life hasn't improved."

Quality of life is a very debatable term - in many ways people have a substantially higher quality of life now than they did in the past.