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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Can you explain why 40 years ago was worse, as a whole?

I look at the 80's and I see affordable housing, the fall of the Berlin wall, the birth of the internet, and a ton of economic upturn for the US (including way higher wages if you adjust for inflation.)

This decade is popularly referred to as the "decade of decadence."

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The fall of the Berlin Wall was the end of the 1980s. It was such an amazing and joyous event specifically because of the level of mastery generated by the previous arrangement of Berlin being split in half and people in East Berlin needing a wall and razor and armed guards to block them from moving out of the area.

40 years ago people were literally living in 1984