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[McAvoy]

That is true. Far more smaller companies out there during that time then Mega companies like Walmart or Amazon. Even the big ones at the time like Sears wasn't that widespread.

Also at the time, everything was made in the US. With perhaps some parts or stuff being made in England for example.

Also far less to pay for. No cell phones, no cable or internet. You didn't need insurance for anything. Yeah TVs were incredibly expensive at the time but you could afford one. But just one.

[Makeshift Python]

Ah, so a self-loathing Zoomer. In every generation there's always groups of people who hate their generation, claiming they were born too late and wish their generation was more like the previous one or two.

But what if a previous generation genuinely was better than this one? It is only natural to be wistful for better things, yes?

Was there a better previous generation? I suppose you could say the WW2 generation would be better considering how easy it was to have a living wage, own a car and a house on a single earner salary. Then you could say well, that generation had to deal with WW2 and the Korean War. Boomers had Vietnam but they also were in the middle of a bad economy in the 70's.

Maybe Gen X? Outside the Gulf War, it was pretty peaceful for them. And the economy was rebuilding.

Nevermind race problems of each generation.

It depends entirely on perspective. I would have been happier as a Boomer I think. Blue collar jobs everywhere, cheap houses, shameless masculinity, shameless smoking, shameless patriotism, and as i'm not American, no draft to worry about.
But I am also a straight white male. I'm sure women, blacks and the LGBT will have a different opinion.

This btw is why utopia is an impossible dream. No two people will ever agree on what perfection is.

As long as being a straight white male gives you an advantage in the market, fuck everyone else, right?

[McAvoy]

Pretty much any time period they had that advantage.

Would be interesting to ask that question to a PoC though.

[clearspira]

Ah, so a self-loathing Zoomer. In every generation there's always groups of people who hate their generation, claiming they were born too late and wish their generation was more like the previous one or two.

But what if a previous generation genuinely was better than this one? It is only natural to be wistful for better things, yes?

Was there a better previous generation? I suppose you could say the WW2 generation would be better considering how easy it was to have a living wage, own a car and a house on a single earner salary. Then you could say well, that generation had to deal with WW2 and the Korean War. Boomers had Vietnam but they also were in the middle of a bad economy in the 70's.

Maybe Gen X? Outside the Gulf War, it was pretty peaceful for them. And the economy was rebuilding.

Nevermind race problems of each generation.

It depends entirely on perspective. I would have been happier as a Boomer I think. Blue collar jobs everywhere, cheap houses, shameless masculinity, shameless smoking, shameless patriotism, and as i'm not American, no draft to worry about.
But I am also a straight white male. I'm sure women, blacks and the LGBT will have a different opinion.

This btw is why utopia is an impossible dream. No two people will ever agree on what perfection is.

As long as being a straight white male gives you an advantage in the market, fuck everyone else, right?

According to every survey I have ever read, people today are increasingly unhappier than when they were when surveyed thirty years ago. This is across the board, white, black, men and women. Equality may be the ideal target, but it hasn't brought happiness.
Why is that? Who knows. Its a complicated subject. My personal opinion is that an awful lot of women and blacks and gays have slowly realised that what straight white men had wasn't actually as good as they were told. I'm not saying that what THEY had was better, i'm saying that they now have many of their own problems PLUS all of these new ones. I know for a fact that the amount of women who want to be housewives is a growing group.

[Makeshift Python]

That's because people are much more honest about their unhappiness than prior generations. Getting therapy is much more widely accepted in social circles than it used to be in the 20th century. Don't mistake the facade of happiness for actual happiness. People have always been complicated.

[TGLS]

According to every survey I have ever read, people today are increasingly unhappier than when they were when surveyed thirty years ago.

30 years ago was '91. For better or worse there haven't been any real steps towards equality in the West apart from advances in LGBT Rights, which effects <10% of the population.

[McAvoy]

According to every survey I have ever read, people today are increasingly unhappier than when they were when surveyed thirty years ago.

30 years ago was '91. For better or worse there haven't been any real steps towards equality in the West apart from advances in LGBT Rights, which effects <10% of the population.

I'd say only for the LGB part as trannsexual rights are being fought for and against.

[ProfessorDetective]

According to every survey I have ever read, people today are increasingly unhappier than when they were when surveyed thirty years ago. This is across the board, white, black, men and women. Equality may be the ideal target, but it hasn't brought happiness.

Of course, folks are unhappy now: civil unrest, economic uncertainty, blatant corruption, terrorism, environmental destruction... Folks are freaking sick of it.

As for Thirty years ago, the 1990s was the one moderately calm decade we've had since WWI, at least in the West. The Cold War ended, tech was booming as was the economy, and the worst junk the Gov't pulled was Desert Storm and the Lewinsky Scandal. Practically paradise in comparison.

[McAvoy]

According to every survey I have ever read, people today are increasingly unhappier than when they were when surveyed thirty years ago. This is across the board, white, black, men and women. Equality may be the ideal target, but it hasn't brought happiness.

Of course, folks are unhappy now: civil unrest, economic uncertainty, blatant corruption, terrorism, environmental destruction... Folks are freaking sick of it.

As for Thirty years ago, the 1990s was the one moderately calm decade we've had since WWI, at least in the West. The Cold War ended, tech was booming as was the economy, and the worst junk the Gov't pulled was Desert Storm and the Lewinsky Scandal. Practically paradise in comparison.

I wouldn't call the Gulf War 'junk'. It was a pretty big deal for the US at the time.

But yeah the 90's were actually a nice time.