In ye ol' times everythang wus bettah!

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ThrowawayCactus6012 · 2016-10-11T13:00:13+00:00

60-90 years ago

60 years ago was 1956 - a time when America was experiencing the greatest economic boom we ever faced before or since. Economic growth was unprecedented, and there was a greater level of affluence experienced by wider sections of society. Even blue-collar workers could afford their own homes, while they had been living in tenements just a generation earlier. Technology and industry were also booming, with new time-saving gadgets and inventions entering the market and making lives easier for people.

Some people view that time as America's peak, the pinnacle of our success - which we've been slowly slipping down from in the decades which followed.

As for 90 years ago, that was 1926, but even that wasn't so terrible, if one didn't know a Great Depression would befall them a few years later.

But people also had different values back then. What we see today is the result and the consequences of the wealth and affluence built up by previous generations who didn't have predilections towards instant gratification or mindless hedonism. People had a work ethic back then, and they understood the meaning of the word "sacrifice" - something that today's youth have no concept or understanding of. Everything is about "me" nowadays. "I want it NOW!"

[deleted] · 2016-10-11T13:01:18+00:00

Anyone who waxes poetic about life in the 50's was almost certainly born in the 90's or later. As you said it wasn't all happy families and Leave It To Beaver marriages. My grandmother spent the better part of a decade squirreling away a "fuck you" account so that she could leave her cheating husband. Infidelity was rampant. You don't hear about paternity fraud like you do today because there were no paternity tests.

Marriages didn't necessarily follow a romantic courtship... if you got caught up and took it too far, guess what? There was no birth control and no legal abortion. If a happy accident resulted you guys would have to get married and stay married, compatibility be damned. My grandparents-in-law were dirt poor their whole lives and had a fraught marriage (she was mentally ill) because they got pregnant as teenagers.

The middle class dream with a chicken in every pot and a white picket fence that has come to represent the era was only a reality for a tiny slice of the population. The same shit that goes on today went on back then too, it was just bubbling under the surface and too taboo to mention.

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DarkLord0chinChin · 2016-10-11T12:30:59+00:00

People were more socially connected before, incels, autists and spergs were rarer. Basically Internet ruined everything

yaboitinky · 2016-10-11T14:00:55+00:00

If you are a white male even being working class was better 50 years ago. There is no debate. My grandfather supported three kids with a high school education

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BeyondTheLight · 2016-10-11T12:57:39+00:00

If they were born like 60-90 years ago they would probably be working class nobodies. They would be just a farmers son who ends up marrying that plump, but cute daughter of the neighbor farm. Or They would be doing something else that would be equally mundane.

Not everyone here is working class bud

mrcs84usn · 2016-10-11T13:29:16+00:00

Do you think that they would have the money let alone the status to even study and get one of their precious little STEM-degrees? No way.

[anecdote] Interesting how my dad who was raised poor and managed to get his degree in mathematics in the 60s. Oh yeah, being black and in the south didn't exactly do him any favors either. College was comparatively cheaper back then.[/anecdote]

One big thing students were doing during those times (especially during the 80s) was taking out huge loans to go to the best schools, and then they would file bankruptcy after they graduated so that their loan debt would be wiped out.

So if you are like a 6-7 in terms of desirability based on your providership, then you would be like a 1/2 in that time.

Meh. The middle class was much stronger and larger back then. If anything, your chances were much better because there was much less of a hook up culture, and society wasn't nearly a globalized via the internet.

Littleknownfacts · 2016-10-11T14:39:44+00:00

Assuming that they did not die of influenza, or infection, or smallpox, or some kind of horrible accident, or at birth (possibly killing their mother in the process).

They might think that the SMP is awful now, but at least they are alive to engage in it.

Title	In ye ol' times everythang wus bettah!
Author	BeyondTheLight
Upvotes	6
Comments	63
Date	October 11, 2016 12:22 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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