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Originally Posted by DAVES
The good old days were not as good as we remember. I have movie proof. i have 16mm movies taken by, I think my uncle at several family events. We never had a 16mm projector, so I had never seen them. I remembered the streets were cleaner in the old days. In our movies sadly you can see trash everywhere. Toys at the park?
How did we ever survive that stuff? Global warming? When, I was a kid we had snow
up to my chest. I have proof. I was 3 or 4 feet tall.
We cannot, we do not want to go back. A car? Must have air conditioning-it was rare when we were kids. Automatic transmission-most cars were standard, manual shift.
Wipers ran off engine vacuum and would slow down or stop at lights.
THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
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Totally agree. I do think most people start with single wage earner as "the good old days", and then sort of see the rest through rose colored glasses.
Personally, I think having to have two (or more) wage earners today is very common and very stressful. I have no recommendations on how to fix that, but, I think the BIG change is that after the depression people worked hard to ensure their children had a better life than they did. Then slowly just keeping up require two wages earners. That much stress - how to feed my family, how to pay for my children medicine, etc, etc, leads to depression and anxiety and that leads to anger and violence.
These used to be a saying, war can only occur in a country where the people feel they have nothing left to lose. We are approaching a minority feeling they have nothing left to lose.