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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Masks off.

This country has always been pretty awful.

We just had a short golden age where we taxed the fuck out of rich people and were simultaneously benefitting from the spoils of a World War.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

The economic boom the US experienced in the 1950s and 1960s was the result of:

  • Pro-worker economic policies enacted during the great depression that were kept in place through WWII and remained in place until they started getting killed off in the 1970s and were fully killed off in the 1980s by Reagan.
  • The top tax bracket being set at 90%.
  • The US being one of the only countries that didn't have its infrastructure absolutely trashed during WWII.

Even if the US went back to pro-worker, anti-oligarch policies, we're unlikely to see another golden age unless there's another world war that doesn't damage the US. When people talk about their grandfather supporting 4 kids as a plumber, that was wonderful, but it was never the norm.

Let's see: !lemmysilver

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

lemmysilver (with ! at the beginning) exists and you can do it once a day

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I tried it out, hopefully that works.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I dont think it works for edited comments

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

:( !lemmysilver

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think that gave me the vote

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

You deserve lemmy silver for teaching me about lemmy silver. :)

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

!lemmysilver

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