~33,000cal worth of rice (20lbs) costs $10 at Wal-Mart.
20lbs of chicken legs (16,700cal, 2180g protein) goes for $16.

That's 3wks of food for ~$26.

Move-in ready homes are for sale for ~$30k in states where minimum wage is $14+.

This is the BOTTOM. You can't fail unless you are hell-bent on failing. If you told your great-great-grandfather about these numbers, he'd be floored and amazed. He actually might not believe it at first.

And he'd be completely shocked and confused that there are millions of Americans who are bitter and enraged at "how bad things are." So bitter and enraged all they do is whine all day online about how awful this world is. He'd wonder (rightly) if everyone had lost their damn minds.

There's never been a better time to have children in history. The bottom is comfortable by any reasonable historical standard -- and unless you have zero ambition of any kind, you can ONLY go up from there.