Minimum wage being reasonable and houses being affordable.
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Literally none, they all sound terrible.
Okay, maybe the 60's folk revival, but that's only a maybe.
Yeah, I mean "live through" as in "witness", sure... Lots of things come to mind.
But as awful as things are now, at least I have memes and seatbelts.
And we're jaded to the cold war now. The threat of getting nuked has amplified shitloads in recent years but we're numb to it. We all just kind of accept that at any moment there could be a blinding light and then its all over with no warning, and theres nothing we can do about it, so whatever.
I imagine it would have been truly terrifying in the early days when the threat was novel.
Mannnnn, what I would pay to have been a fly on the wall of the Soviet submarine B-59, watching those three officers go at it over whether they should unleash nuclear war. All with the hindsight knowing that the torpedo was never launched off courseβ¦
The 1969 Apollo 11 mission. To capture the original signal from the lander and make backup copies of it
Stock market crash of 1929.
Buy a bunch of puts in summer. Cash out in October. Use the cash to buy up stocks. Be filthy rich.
Gonna party like itβs 1929 any day nowβ¦ unless crimes continue, in which case then continuing to be poor is the system working as intended.
T-Bird: You know that Lake Erie actually caught on fire once from all the crap floating around in it? I wish I coulda seen that.
hey that was the cuyahoga river, lake erie is clean besides the algae blooms and the farm runoff and after a storm when it turns brown :(
however, the river fire led to the founding of the epa and the fish have been safe to eat for like five years now
Iβm living through one of the worst periods in American history. Iβm good bro π
Plague of Justinian
The big bang cause its like waow
Theyre all bad but out of all of them id probably survive early internet (specifically 90s-00s)
That would be bad for me because I canβt function well in normal society and I know that not as many things were accepted 30yrs ago as today
Other events I probably would not survive
You will find that it is quite a more peaceful time, compared to now.
It does seem nicer then but my mental health would not exist lol
Golden age of capitalism, the Bretton woods. Lots of employment, financial regulations keeping inflation low. And of course absolutely massive taxation on wealth.
You know, I'm very happy living in the present day. It has its issues, but tbh the past seems only worse. Interesting times being unpleasant, and all that.
Thats interesting, I have the COMPLETE opposite take. Id MUCH rather be living in 1999 right now. Things are only getting worse and facism is on the rise, the wealth divide is bigger than its ever been, and there's 0 hope the future will improve.
I dont let it get me down, ill be sitting fine when it goes to shit, but man I feel bad for gen z and a.
As a trans person, 2026 seems way better than 1999
I think that's generally true for queer people, so I'm in the same boat as you
While true, you make up .05% of the population (i think?)
But yes, thats about the only better thing, but its going to regress in 10 years.
It's all seesaws. It's been getting worse for us for a while now, hopefully in 10 years it'll be the 'three steps forward' section.
WW2