I read an article that blamed societies current issues on double incomes.
It has allowed house prices to double as increasing income stretched prices to the maximum income could allow. It’s meat all the increase income has gone to simply servicing huge house prices.
The result: if we still had single incomes house prices would be halved because that’s all the market could afford.
We would have 35 hours of disposable time not working to pay for the exact same house.
The double working has resulted in childcare costs, more petrol costs, more stress, less time with kids around their parents, etc.
The only winners have been the govt with a massive increase in tax.
Based on this, we would have been better as a society with only a single income earner per household.
Can’t critique it really and a fascinating example of how we’re working twice as hard and are no better off (essentially that second person is working for nothing).