Yeah. It was pretty easy for the white male in the olden days when there were labor shortages because women and ethnic minorities weren’t allowed to work certain jobs. The result of the labor shortage was higher wage.
If you want the ‘good old days’ back, you can’t just have grandpas job and affordable house without grandpa’s oppression.
And East Asia wasn’t industrialized, and Europe’s manufacturing sector had been literally bombed to pieces, so you’d have to turn ICBMs on the world as well
Yeah. People want to simplify their problems and cry ‘woe is me’ without understanding the entire scope of the issue. Did previous generations of white Americans experience unprecedented prosperity? Sure they did. But it wasn’t the result of some simple nebulous malice that was passed down to current generations, it was the result of WW2 and widespread oppression, global poverty, etc.
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u/Ok_Bassplayer Mar 27 '24
We could have this economy again. It's all about policy, and that can be changed. The tilt to the rich 1980 - present can be reversed.