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[-] socsa@piefed.social 137 points 23 hours ago

Haha we got fucking head injuries and it was fine because we could afford to raise an entire family on one salary from the spatula factory and that only requires 67 IQ points.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

If "we" were white, male, straight, lived in the US immediately following WWII when every other developed country's economy had been absolutely devastated, and still had a lot of the union strength and worker protections that had been put in place during the great depression.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 55 points 23 hours ago

A few head injuries wouldn’t separate you from the leaded gasoline poisoned brains of the masses.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 65 points 23 hours ago

Coming of age in the 1970s was peak Selection Bias.

Either Vietnam got you or the poisoned air and water got you or AIDS got you or traffic fatalities got you or poverty got you or you lived just long enough to tell your kids and grandkids that things were better when you were young.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

It’s why a good chunk of older folks tend to be on the wealthier side. The poors get forgotten and don’t get to live as long to tell stories about how it really was.

[-] loweffortname 18 points 21 hours ago

Wait! Are you telling me The Simpsons is satire?

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