one needs today 100 weeks gross wage more than 30 years ago to buy a house.

How many work days are needed to pay the rent today, as compared to 1980?

How many hours a day do most people need to work, to provide an adequate food/shelter state?

Long ago I read, in one of those radical rags published by commie pinkoes like myself, that in the middle ages in the couple centuries before the industrial revolution, it was about 5 hours a day--less than today.

I am reading afew's excellent diaries (linked below), but it's a necessary thing to find ways to make the real numbers (or more reality-based numbers) widely accessible.
Good diary, important subject.

"There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.