• @[email protected]
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    438 minutes ago

    I still can’t get through my day without tons of drugs. Have you seen the hellscape that we live in?

  • nifty
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    122 hours ago

    I think they mean a single income household and being able to own a home

    • @[email protected]
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      101 hour ago

      Yes, but also what OP posted. When the women and minorities “knew their place” and the queer folks just didn’t exist in public.

    • @[email protected]
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      256 minutes ago

      Probably mostly for middle class white people. A pretty significant chunk of the population I think struggled to enjoy those benefits.

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        I don’t think about that because all of the culturally-produced content I have access to paints a steady picture of property and compliance. This is my mental model and my friends and I aren’t in the mood for a new story right now. ^^^/$

  • @[email protected]
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    42 hours ago

    It is almost like if you kill off half the male population there is twice as much stuff and two women for every man. We just need another world war to get there am I riiight?

  • @[email protected]
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    164 hours ago

    Ballpark numbers (guesstimated by ChatGPT). In the 50s (after the ww2 explosion of the US industrial capacity) you came home after an 8 hour shift in a fridge making factory and had an income that could easily keep up 3 kids (including education), 2 cars, 1 stay at home wife and a house (like in The Simpsons). Since then the work productivity has risen 600% - 700%, yet the average income has risen less than 150% and the median icome less than 80%.

  • @[email protected]
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    637 hours ago

    Hey now, they don’t want to bring back everything from the 50s… Suggest bringing back the tax rates from those days, especially for the upper end of the income scale, and they’ll look at you like you’re crazy.

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      I mean in 1960 the “non-Hispanic white” population was 85.4%. Not to mention this is probably a single family. Though making one of the people black for diversity would be pretty funny. At least there’s some women in there, but they’ve had to settle for two fifths.