It was a good post, until some people turned it as usual.

Which post? Oh wait, you mean thread....right?

Post or thread, I think it just jumped the tracks.

In the UK. the 50's sucked, though not as much as the 40's.
The 60's were the start of better things, and every decade after was better than the last.
Life is great now.

I was in England in late 80s and early 90s in my area it was blast back to 50s and early 60’s in USA. Cheaper New cars still have carburetor’s and manual chokes, 50 and 60s music on lot of radio stations, narrow two lane roads, and families seems to gather. Loved the country side with fields of yellow and red poppies? popping through.

I hear it lot better around the world, that why everybody want to come here illegally to get away from prefect world.

Thanks for the correction Professor. :MOJE_whot:

Makes you wonder why people here like to bash us. Must be doing something right.

It’s a never ending task………

By the 80's and 90's UK had talking films and some were even in color.
Some houses had refrigerators, and washing machines, and dish washers were on the horizon!:icon_wink:

And why and how did those parents in the 1950s and 60s get the wherewithal to do such "an incredible job of raising children as did society as a whole"? They could do that because the US THEN had a wealthy and vibrant middle-class (not now). The main reason that the US middle-class gradually disappeared after about 1970 was changes in Tax brackets and tax % that favored the wealthy and SUCKED the life out of the middle-class. Also, outsourcing to foreign countries helped those countries and made wealthy people wealthier. There are also several other reasons like the destruction of unions, factory farms, oil subsidies, and etc. By about 1990, the middle-class was gone.
.......So, that answers the question as to WHY the 50s and 60s were so good relative to the 70s onward.

Reading this post of yours, it makes me curious if you understand the meaning of the word "wonderful." Because what you describe is pretty far from "wonderful years." It sounds like a lot of sadness, tragedy, heartbreak. A dad who is rarely home to be with his family because he has to work "long hours on commission" doesn't sound like a dad who would refer to these as "wonderful years." A kid who has to grow up without a father because he died in the war doesn't sound like a kid who would refer to them as "wonderful years."

So, very true.......truthteller!

I've shown you, on multiple occasions, why you are completely WRONG about the tax brackets. Yet you keep posting the same tripe, time and time again...

It does make one wonder why...

My father who was born in 1898 had been a grocer during the Great Depression. Customers he knew had no pets were buying dog food to eat themselves as they could not afford more. I assure you, he was happy to have a job back then as many did not. He also had lived through both WWI and WWII. He had contracted and survived the Spanish Flu. I can assure you he was happy during the 1950s. Surprise, surprise! Some people enjoy working. Warren Buffet is 91 and still working, Charlie Munger even older. I am 80 and still working because I enjoy it.

People were optimistic in the 1950s. Life was improving year by year. It is all relative. The Great Depression and WWII were in the past. Life was good and getting better. Of course there was not much money around for most folks but people as a whole were happier than they seem to be today which feels pretty dismal to most folks I know. People today are depressed by lack of personal safety, high crime rates, poor schools. Most see things are getting worse by the day. In the 1950s people felt things were getting better by the day - and they were!

The 1950s: Happy Days [ushistory.org]