In the past all was better, even the future
A shit ton of drugs sounds amazing tho
Except polio this seems pretty modern
we have long covid
Lol, it’s coming
Expose the pervert rich and powerful and let’s clean up the billionaires after that.
When you get older, pretty sure you’re going to say the same thing….
“Man, the 2020’s were so nice, such a simpler time…. Back when genocide was in vogue and child molesters controlled the world.”
When was there ever a time in human history since civilization started when this wasn’t true?
Yeah, but we did tax the everloving fuck out of the grotesquely wealthy, which made for a stronger middle class.
That was before they realized they could just pay our traitorous politicians pocket change to lower their tax rate.
they always knew, they just stopped for a bit while the state fixed things up for the new deal. then back to the ouroboros dance of capitalism.
I mean, this was before digital currencies. No one was actually registering every hand-written transaction. Everyone who owned a business big or small was definitely not paying the correct share
fr I’m sick of people portraying the 50s as this majestic golden age. people pretended everything was fine
A full family (of white people) could still survive off a single person working, though. That bit was nice. Not the white people bit, obviously.
Make America Great Again!
And the whole world smells like cigarettes and leaded gasoline
Back in my day, we could drink gasoline right out of the pump. If you were feeling ill, you just head over to the nearby asbestos wall and give it a good lick.
Then you go out and yell racist shit and put women in their place.
I can’t get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
So we’re already back?
My picture from the 50s is mom pregnant with No.5 (me), while dad is not in the photo because he ran off to parts unknown with the neighbor. Good times.
The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:
Is there some sinister reason why the low point was 1905 or so?
christians thought that left-handedness was “sinister” and associated to the devil, so they made it illegal.
Edit: i know it sounds like a joke, but it is not. this is not the onion. that’s the actual reason.
Underrated pun
Maybe not the 50s but the 90s, for certain
On the other hand:
- Many of the pro-worker policies from the New Deal are still in place, and my union is strong
- The owner of that factory over there is in the 90% tax bracket, isn’t it great how he’s paying society back for his good fortune?
- Every other major economic power in the world was just absolutely flattened in a war, and our country wasn’t touched
- Because our country was relatively safe during the war, the best and brightest migrated here, and we’re now benefiting from their ideas and inventions
On the other other hand: segregation was still a thing
Yup, the 1950s was only better for white people, but there’s a reason that white people look back on it with fondness.
But, I’d guess that even for black people it was better than the 1930s. When the economy shinks, they’re the first to lose jobs. When it grows they’re the last to get them. In the 1950s things were booming so my guess is that black unemployment was low. Still, for working class white males the 1950s may have been a peak, for most other people things have just been getting better every year since then.
Imagine how good it could be if everyone got some of the things working class whites got in the 1950s: strong unions, good labour protections, high tax rates on the ultra rich, etc.
