Your house rocks
Russ Roberts has been digging through American Housing Survey data from old censuses.
He reports:
1. In 1970, 36% of the 67 million households in America had air conditioning, 11% had central air.
2. In 2005, 82% of the 15 million households with income below the poverty line had air conditioning, 52% had central air.
Whining is not allowed.
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I admit it - I might as well be a hippie, what with the beard, and my radical belief that perhaps air conditioning is, at this point in our ever warming world, the sort of basic necessity that we might put on par with something like heat. You’ll excuse me for not seeing this as the sort of extravagence that requires outrage. Bring me a statistic that says poor people have more than one television per household, or more than one car, or whatever else, and I’ll nod approvingly in your direction. But the Libertarian cause will never be taken seriously by outsiders if it hinges on arguments like, “Poor people are air conditioning themselves too much!”
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