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> West Germany of the 1980s and unified Germany of the 1990s was a much nicer place.

Please name the indexes where Germany in the 80s did better than German of the 20s.

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The stock market indices are useless for evaluating population wealth. Inflation numbers in Germany are an outright lie where the most expensive items are excluded.

You could support a family in the 1980s on one salary and live comfortably.

I mean every index from health to social mobility.

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