Damn, that's interesting!

Interesting predictions from the 60s.

It turns out that in the early 70s, “we” decided to give everything to corporations and those already wealthy instead. Productivity did indeed continue to skyrocket, but wages have stagnated since then. For 50+ years we’ve been getting robbed.

To be fair, these were good predictions. All of this is actually possible. It's just capitalism being the problem it usually is..

Well, in Germany we have legal Holdiays at least...

This is what it was like when the people of the country worked together to make the future better for everyone. Not self improvement, not local; it was understood across the country that people should plant trees without expecting to sit in its shade. Plan for the future and give the next generation the best chance.

Those articles were written in the 60s. At the very least each author was born 18 years prior, part of the silent generation. The future they hoped, expected, and built was for boomers.

A generation of greed has killed almost all hope for future generations. It only took one to fuck it up for everyone else.

As soon as people earn a bit more, the value of things increases. Now value of things keeps increasing but we’re not getting more money.

"HAHAHA...no"

– Capitalists

Here's the thing. We could have that right now, today, we're there, they're right. Computers and just useful software (fuck AI) alone have increased productivity so much that one guy with fancy Excel can do the work of what used to take 98 people (7 banks x 14 person abacus teams). And that's just one regional bank. Before email, corporations had internal mailing departments, now there's dirt cheap and super convenient email. There are untold numbers of shell scripts out there quietly replacing whole ass departments of people. Soft automation alone, no robots needed, has increased human productivity to an absolutely bonkers degree since these statements were written. Thanks to the Friedman doctrine and Reagan and Thatcher and their ilk, all the benefits of that productivity got turned into a benefits for the asset holding class, while the middle and lower classes got lectures on the morality of hard work.

As a kid, my dad used to tell me stuff like that. He believed it too. He worked 2 jobs 6 days a week all his life to die in relative poverty.

People make wealth issues generational. It's not. It's a narrative to divide and conquer.

It's the rich vs the poor. It's always been.

This is so uniquely depressing. They were accurate on my annual wage in 2024 yet they assumed I’d be working less than 40 hours 😭

More like depressing, given how the current era turned out to be.

I want Silicon Valley's elites on sticks reading this negl

But instead, we decided to make a very small number of people extremely rich.

:(