[CIncyHR]

This is incorrect. Life expectancy has increased due to medical and technological advances. real wages in the US have gone up becuase the capitalists have cleverly hidden the awful exploitation of the lowest class of workers overseas. Union power is at an all time low, thanks largely in part to the federal government preempting their power. Crime contineus to grow to absurd levels among the lower classes, and the divide between the haves and have nots between the upper and lower classes expands every day.