Reaganomics are more likely to have been a consequence (of US' peak oil) than a cause of prosperity starting to dive back to the normal.

I don't quite understand what you are saying.

The 1980's so the deregulation and the invention of financial products that changed wealth exponentially.

Yet you're the one that said that before it was "pretty easy to get by on very little money".

I meant I don't comprehend what you are saying. I would expect an elaboration on the point you were making. Please I'm not making any connections between what I dive to normal would be. What is normal?

It's more that I'm suspecting that you're thinking that the first post-WW2 decades were something "normal", rather than something that might not be achieved on this planet ever again ?

Well there is our confusion. I think that WW2 had a great distortion on what is considered "normal". I think that we have been living in a wartime economy mentality ever since. I working towards a more local scale which is pre-ww2.

In the fine art world, definitely I agree. That’s when Gagosian etc. really started taking off and making the fine art market a thing for billionaires.