asterisk because i think we look at that period of stability deeply red rose-colored glasses. when people think prosperity they don’t think “family of six sharing a 1200 sq ft home living largely on canned goods and hand me downs” but that was the reality
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https://www.econlib.org/how-did-we-get-good-growth-in-the-1950s-despite-high-marginal-tax-rates/#:~:text=For%20married%20couples%20filing%20joint,same%20from%201954%20to%201963.
1) pay the tax, and the feds put the money back out as spending; or
2) take less out of the business and reduce prices, increase wages, or pay suppliers more.
I don't think I was out of kindergarten before I realized that some of my friends were unwanted additions to their families.
But the family living there in the 1950s/60s raised five (!) boys in it.
It's delicious!! 😋
To be fair, I had brown sugar & butter sandwiches in the 70's, but introduced by older folks.
His mother grew up in the 20s, where her mother died of childbirth at home and her father died of lung cancer, probably from asbestos exposure. Hospitals were for rich people.
Is mid-century prosperity a new dog whistle?
A 6 lb 11 oz can for $6.99.
But it's making me fat.
Needed to pause that.
When she decided to take my last name, they tried to force her to convert it to a joint account.
No rational person wants to go back to that!
#HealthcareforAll
#UnionPower
etc.
The plutocrats behind the tariffs are more likely to bring back tips-only for service jobs, than manufacturing jobs
About 15 years ago, there was a program in Michigan to re-train laid-off auto workers for health care jobs. It turned out they didn't want those jobs, for the most part. They just wanted to sit on their asses and make $45 an hour to do nothing.
Every damn week.
I got a new winter coat every year.
We weren’t destitute though. Folks just didn’t fill their closets with yards of clothes & crap that ends up in the garage or a storage unit.
You don't get to tax-loss harvest unemployment to reduce your taxes/offset income in future years. Capital gains don't pay Social Security taxes.
That's a problem.
And those are almost certainly referencing far older ideas.
Conveniently ignores the abject poverty, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Homestead Strike, Spanish Flu Pandemic, etc. 🙄
Jobs will come with a loaf of bread five gallons of water and a bucket to shit in.
Ladies (only hotties, screened by Zuckerberg) will be topless wearing high heels. Nurse executives.
Everyone rides a horse. Children work as soon as they can walk. Robots nurse infants.
would be kinda wild to ride a giant chill rodent (that is friends with pretty much every creature) to work.
as long as our commute will be billable hours. 🤣
or a giant crispr gator 🐊 body guard with a capybara to hitch a ride! 💞
The factory of the future will have two employees
A person to feed the guard dog, and a guard dog to make sure humans don’t touch anything.
Automation means less workers
Lmao even
But yeah, you get it.
I thought that would advance medicine in ways we couldn't imagine in 2019.
But some mitigation made money laundering harder so everything related pandemic prevention had to be destroyed.
University extension shout outs are rare.
Definitely not in relation to an email and meeting job.
The investment in social foods benefits all. But....William Donald Schaeffer had this also be profitable
https://www.wired.com/2009/02/pigbrainmystery/
(Source: 40 years of town meetings and public school teaching.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/hillary-clinton-working-class/509477/
You don’t need a master’s degree in electrical engineering to drive a forklift.
my parents bought an ex-dentist's home with an office wing.
my aunt bought an old victorian that they mostly restored themselves.
curious when 2000+ sqft became the standard. late 90s? early 00s?
They would have gatherings where everyone would choose a poem or passage to recite.
And I just think…maybe that is better than the ceaseless entertainment of the screen.
If you're after material comfort, health, and safety, you choose 2025 Charlotte suburbs every time.
My family never ate out nor went on vacation. We went to the beach weekends during summer, sometimes the drive in movie on a weekend night.
We didn’t have cell phones, cable tv, nor internet.
I'm serious. We grew our own food, chopped wood, carried water.
People don't know. They just don't.
My parent's life.
To make it worse, they still allowed sonic booms from airplanes, which rattled the windows and sent us all scampering for the fallout shelter.
I was raised in 864 sq ft, 2 BR, 1 bath house w/8 ppl. We 4 girls in 8x10 BR & shared a small closet, each had 1 drawer in a chest in the hallway. Dad made part of living rm for the 2 boys. It was difficult to ever do school work.
White men could go off to their Union jobs (that mostly excluded women & POC) and leave all the childcare, eldercare, house chores to women
I haven’t heard any conservative nostalgists wanting to bring that back.
Even being rich didn't always help.
(full disclosure: I like this book.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wx5XS6uXP-g
My dad lost his job because International Harvester kinda went out of business. There was the bad reagan 80s too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joNzRzZhR2Y
5 people, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. Parents slept—in shifts—in a room that was not a bedroom; grandma on a couch that didn’t even pull out into a bed. No heat at night.
That's my bio in 20 words.
Funny thing - my parents were Depression Kids, and they remembered THEIR childhood fondly, too.
Historically, cheap places to live omitted features like running water and fire safety. That’s no longer acceptable.
Imagine you have $100/mo for housing. You’re one of 8 people sharing a safe 2 br apt for $800/mo.
Do you want the option to live alone with your partner in an unsafe 1 br apartment for $200/mo?
Should the state allow that unsafe option to exist?
We need modern building codes, loosened zoning regulations and robust inspection capability to unlock a building boom. These are good for developers now, good for renters later.
We need to strength democracy so politicians have healthy incentives to deliver high quality policy.
“Let’s preferentially select our fittest, smartest young men and give them first crack at getting their heads blown off before they’ve had a chance to start a family.”
The government is already paying almost half of all healthcare for crissakes.
His jaw dropped.
The overwhelming appreciation of even one gift, the restricted wardrobe, the ever-presence of disease…
I think we would be better off as a society if everyone were aware of our former realities.
Spousal and child abuse were considered private family matters back then. There were no shelters.
Good times.
with no air conditioning
"What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget."