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Do you feel your buying power is less than that of your parents? Other than real-estate in a popular city, has your buying power really gone down?

Also would you rather live in a society where:

A) GDP (or general productivity and availability of goods) increases by 3%. However this society has wealth inequality

B) GDP stays approximately flat or increases by only 0.1% / year but the society has perfect wealth equality.

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> Do you feel your buying power is less than that of your parents? Other than real-estate in a popular city, has your buying power really gone down?

What we're discovering is that this buying power isn't so important, affordable real-estate gives you stability and permanence that a 65" LCD TV and this years iPhone model just can't make up for.

To answer you're question, I'd say B whole be better in future, we're hitting limits on our ability to consume.

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