> "In the 60s it was possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children."

In the 1930s, it wasn't possible so what's your point? (History time: What happened on October 24, 1929?) Choosing the 1960s as a baseline is artificially cherry-picking an era of economic growth (at the expense of the rest of post-WW2 Europe and Asia who were rebuilding) instead of an era of decline or normalcy.

> cherry-picking an era of economic growth

But we already did the growth. We didn't shrink back. So we should still be able to get those results.