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<blockquote data-quote="911" data-source="post: 1240998" data-attributes="member: 11221"><p>Crime rates were actually significantly lower in the US 50 years ago, about 3 times lower, and even lower before that in the 1950s. </p><p></p><p><img src="https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdavidroodman.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2FUS-crime-rate-1960-20123.png&f=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Whether diets were worse is highly debatable, based on the explosive growth in diet-related illnesses like diabetes, heart disease or cancer. A lot of the increase in size is due to unhealthy industrial additives like growth hormones, aspartame, HFCS and processes like GMOs that did not exist in the 1950s.</p><p></p><p>[img=600x350]<a href="https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bettycjung.net%2FBG2015%2FDiabetesUS1958-2010.png&f=1[/img]" target="_blank">https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://www.bettycjung.net/BG2015/DiabetesUS1958-2010.png&f=1[/img]</a></p><p></p><p>It's true that homes were smaller, with larger households, but there were far fewer single-parent households and singles. Loneliness was not the social plague it is today. As far as overall wealth level, they had the same level of material wealth while women hardly worked, so in fact your purchasing power as a man was twice as high as it is today:</p><p></p><p>[img=600x350]<a href="https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-JeXzjB98fuc%2FT6aQgblzeKI%2FAAAAAAAARdg%2Fq042PLJKx78%2Fs1600%2Flfp2.jpg&f=1[/img]" target="_blank">https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JeXzjB98fuc/T6aQgblzeKI/AAAAAAAARdg/q042PLJKx78/s1600/lfp2.jpg&f=1[/img]</a></p><p></p><p>College and healthcare were far more accessible. About the only thing that's more accessible today is air travel, only the rich flew to Europe or Asia, but local/national vacations were widely accessible.</p><p></p><p>Since the 1950s, there has been huge increases in technology-driven growth, but the wealth this has generated has mostly eluded the middle classes, which are far more economically precarious today than in the 1950s, due to the dilution of the labor force through women entering the labor force and mass immigration on one hand, and planned deindustrialization/outsourcing on the other. There is no question that we live in more precarious economic times today than in the 1950s.</p><p></p><p>In any case, the overall economic disparity is not huge, people aren't starving today. The real difference lies in cultural richness, decades ago people lived in far healthier and more stable societies. We live today in culturally degenerate and toxic times, and that is the main source of misery today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="911, post: 1240998, member: 11221"] Crime rates were actually significantly lower in the US 50 years ago, about 3 times lower, and even lower before that in the 1950s. [img]https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdavidroodman.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2FUS-crime-rate-1960-20123.png&f=1[/img] Whether diets were worse is highly debatable, based on the explosive growth in diet-related illnesses like diabetes, heart disease or cancer. A lot of the increase in size is due to unhealthy industrial additives like growth hormones, aspartame, HFCS and processes like GMOs that did not exist in the 1950s. [img=600x350][URL]https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bettycjung.net%2FBG2015%2FDiabetesUS1958-2010.png&f=1[/img][/URL] It's true that homes were smaller, with larger households, but there were far fewer single-parent households and singles. Loneliness was not the social plague it is today. As far as overall wealth level, they had the same level of material wealth while women hardly worked, so in fact your purchasing power as a man was twice as high as it is today: [img=600x350][URL]https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-JeXzjB98fuc%2FT6aQgblzeKI%2FAAAAAAAARdg%2Fq042PLJKx78%2Fs1600%2Flfp2.jpg&f=1[/img][/URL] College and healthcare were far more accessible. About the only thing that's more accessible today is air travel, only the rich flew to Europe or Asia, but local/national vacations were widely accessible. Since the 1950s, there has been huge increases in technology-driven growth, but the wealth this has generated has mostly eluded the middle classes, which are far more economically precarious today than in the 1950s, due to the dilution of the labor force through women entering the labor force and mass immigration on one hand, and planned deindustrialization/outsourcing on the other. There is no question that we live in more precarious economic times today than in the 1950s. In any case, the overall economic disparity is not huge, people aren't starving today. The real difference lies in cultural richness, decades ago people lived in far healthier and more stable societies. We live today in culturally degenerate and toxic times, and that is the main source of misery today. [/QUOTE]
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