Being GenX we had the late-stage stasis of cold war potential nuclear annihilation (but it was all quite stable) followed by the euphoria of the wall falling & then things genuinely Getting Better.
Until (pick yr poison) 2001 or 2008. The last 2 decades really have been rubbish.
Until (pick yr poison) 2001 or 2008. The last 2 decades really have been rubbish.
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That said the Boomers are worse.
That's when the food banks really got going and they've become ever more important since.
I feel as though boom and bust has always been in there, but was weaponized under Reagan to always bring increasing detriment to working people.
When Jack Welch discovered he could cause a bump in stock prices with mass firings, that was a major blow to its foundation.
So many funerals!
The glass-steagall repeal was the last flood gate opening for the uber wealthy tbh