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There is an old Russian joke: “Grandfather, why do you say things were better under Stalin?” “Because back when Stalin was in charge my d**k worked”
I think it is interesting that many people who reminisce around the great 80s and 90s were in fact children at this time. Perhaps a longing for the innocence of youth? A time with less responsibility, more time to play, more time for friends and relationships. Were things actually better then or are we all merely longing for a better version of ourselves?
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All these goddamn YouTubers, influencers, get rich quick schemes…nobody wants to work, people don’t have manners, inflation, wars still, and our two party system keeps pushing each side to the extreme.
Billy Joel needs to write that song again for 2025…
Hey that’s capitalism baby, do the least amount of work for the highest pay day. Works for executives. Don’t hate the player hate the game.
Cars? 80s/90s were the worst decades for cars.
Houses? Again, construction quality sucked. It was in transition to new technologies that didn’t last. I would rather own a 60s or 2000s house than 80s or 90s
Really, remind me what was good from those decades. Other than 80s being the best decade for music, I’m not really clear that quality of much was better.
In 1999 BCG was paying fresh MBA a $144k starting salary and houses in most places could still be had for <$100k
We tend to glorify the past. It's a natural thing.
I don't think many things were really much better in the 80s or 90s.
The world was so much slower which was less exhausting for humans in general. That was indeed much better. We don't realise how fast everything has become and how exhausting that is for our minds and bodies. But I think there is no way back on that unfortunately!
People spent more time interacting in person with each other, America was the sole superpower with a budget surplus and the economy absolutely ripped. Plus abortion was legal, there were reasonable bans in place on assault weapons and Trump was just doing commercials with The Grimace. And don’t even Google average home price or tuition costs. Things were better in many respects.
I would say the '70s and '80s were the best decades in terms of the quality of construction, toys, equipment, and a whole bunch of other odds and ends that you would have in your life. It was in the '80s that manufacturing really began to shift to China and the quality started dropping in the '90s. Including food became more and more adulterated with preservatives and chemicals.
"Old men yell at clouds" thread
80s were not great economically. 90s were amazing. But the internet, mobile phones, population growth, and climate change have, in fact, ruined just about everything. Society is a hot mess, our mental health is destroyed, we’re blowing through resources and making trash at an incomprehensible rate, and everything is literally on fire.
But please note, Republican policies are doing nothing to address any of these problems, and will in fact make thing worse. So, yay?
Second half of the 80s were good until the S&L crisis. The biggest difference between those times and now is there was no social media - that has really F’d up everyone and should be heavily regulated.
That’s called capitalism baby… increase revenues and reduce costs + clever marketing = shitty products that cost more