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Yes, productivity is up. Yes, wages are stagnant. But we are loads wealthier. In some ways...
We have access to goods and services and foods and everything, that was unthinkable in 1980. Y'all young people would shit live kittens if you were thrust into 1982. GenZ literally could not function being warped back into those days. And for that matter, I'd be pretty fucked in 1960, but times weren't as different. If that makes sense?
The young have had their future stolen. Millennials got the idea quickly and GenZ is certainly getting it. My kids are GenA, don't know how I'll talk to them about all this.
Here's the thing: Y'all can't buy a home any longer. So you whine about landlords and rent and capitalism and how ownership shouldn't be an investment. Sour. Grapes. You lost and cry about the luckier of us being evil.
No. You got shut out of what used to be a fair(ish) system. You worked and saved and bought a home, you slowly gained modest wealth until you retired. Sounded good to me.
Anyway, it's all fucked up for the young. I'm so sorry. Doing what I can for my kids, and it ain't much.
But if anyone tries to sell you a simple solution or slogan or meme, tell them to fuck themselves. It's complicated and you won't fall for easy solutions. You'll fight the good fight.
What are you talking about other than computers? Because if it's just that I think we'd manage.
Sounds like someone's got a case of the Stockholm's Syndrome.
So what you're saying is, we no longer live in a fair system and it used to be fair(ish), better. That suggests it'd have been easier to live in the 80's.
What is your point?
I get your intial point was that life is more convenient now, but you have done nothing to substantiate the claim that we wouldn't manage in the 80's. Only thing that comes to mind is shipping things from abroad via Internet, but that's only really for side hobbies in my experience, I could focus on other, local things instead. Everything else I feel would just be varying degrees of "less efficient" and/or have alternatives.
A lot of words to say your a class traitor because you feel superior to people that are fed up.
We could probably do some things to reduce housing cost, make houses less attractive for investors. But the root cause is the increased population