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I get what you're saying, but don't agree. There is no way in the hell that I would drive through Mississippi 40 years ago. Now I do a ton of business in Mississippi. In regard to two college educated people, the only reason two people can't live well is because they have made decisions to both have jobs so that they can have more things. No one is willing to sacrifice their educations for the betterment of their families. My wife has a terminal degree and so do I. She has been a stay at home and god knows we've struggled very hard while I was in education, but we made it on one salary. A professor's base salary of 30,000 a year so all that you are saying to me falls on dead ears because I've lived it. I've just recently become comfortable and it's because of my sneaker business. We aren't willing to sacrifice, or move or relocate. We want to stick to our guns and tough it out, or work two jobs to have more things. When the reality is if we sacrifice the hedonistic things we have we could save more and do more. I didn't live through Jim Crow, Sharecropping, Civil rights, but I have to imagine that things were far worse for us then, than they are now. Hell with a smart phone and time, you can learn and read almost any book in the world. How we use what we have now is the issue, but to me we definitely have a lot more than we have ever had at our disposal. I mean take for instance the poorest school in every district has books and computers. What more do you need?