Men are allowed to have opinions too. Don’t be sexist.

Honestly, there is a point to be had on both sides of it really.

Too many people act like there is something inherently wrong with a woman choosing to wear a headscarf because of/for her religion. The concept of it is prevalent in many cultures and religions, not just Muslim. Too many people jump down the throat of a Muslim woman who makes an active choice to wear a headscarf when there are no consequences if she chooses to not wear it and call her oppressed or say that she is “participating in her own oppression” because she chooses to dress modestly according to her religion. 

You’ve got fruity, artisanal, wholemeal, gluten-free, vegan-friendly, and many more. So yes, the median value and the average value will go up, because super expensive fancy bread wasn’t available in the past, at least, not to the common man. The deciding factor is CHEAP bread.

Cheap bread is still available. Also, a “loaf” is not a standardised unit of measure, a loaf may be bigger now than it was all those years ago.

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(source 2) 

So, what’s the value now?

Well, (sorry to my fellow Britons, but I’ll use moon-landing units here)

24oz is 1.5lb

Using the 1980 value from the chart (the closest to OP’s 1977 year), we get: 50cents for a pound. In the second source, someone with the ibotta app can get one and a half times that for only 3 more “cents”. So, for people who want cheap bread, there is still availability!

See all that vast unclaimed land? The stuff in green?

Do as the pilgrims did, and start a homestead there.

Housing is only expensive because you expect almost everything to be done for you by a landlord. Well, obviously, if someone else is building, maintaining, and managing your home, that will increase the price.

Also he’s basically saying that we have to eat the cheapest foods possible. My husband makes 50k and in Maryland we only see about 30k of it. The housing here for a 1 bedroom apartment is around 1000k/month, not including gas, electric, trash, internet and sometimes water. We’re shelling out a good amount paying off college and bills like car insurance and life insurance. Don’t even get me started with groceries. Even with a 50k gross income, we struggle to afford things. I can’t imagine living on a 34k gross income in my state and a lot of states I think are in the same position.

Heck, let’s go further back. We don’t know exactly where the first humans came from (probably somewhere around the Mediterranean sea, or West Africa), but there was a time when mankind occupied a very small part of the Earth’s surface. How did our ancestors become so widespread?

Americans have one of the highest obesity rates in the world, yet they hold the most Olympic medals. They have a horrible education system, yet eclipse the rest of the world in scientific research. The country is filled with clueless philistines, yet their culture permeates every society, in some way, across the planet. The country is still less than three centuries old, but has spent most of it at war. They are universally hated or feared by nearly every other country on the planet, yet the first to offer help during a disaster. Their people are stubborn and never content with the way things are, and for better or worse, all of them imagine how things could be better. Every American is a bankrupt billionaire, a prince in exile, a grounded astronaut, a disgraced scientist. There are the people who do not settle for who they are, but for what they may become.

The country has her problems. Certainly their government has a lot of blood on its hands. But there is something charming about the people I can’t quite place. Even the delusional leftists or the out of touch neocons. There is a certain magic about the place that you don’t find elsewhere. There are bad parts and bad people, to be sure, but there are just as many good parts and good people. It is a land of extremes. But even the poor aren’t really that poor. Much better to be a homeless American living on the beach than literally freezing to death at a metro station in Moscow.