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minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-29 months agoYeah, things have always been tough on the working class no matter how you slice it. It used to be when a man’s wife had a baby, all he got was a free beer after work with the boys before he went to see his wife in the hospital. We’ve come a long way, but we’ve got much farther to go. The 50s-70s aren’t some kind of magical economic utopia. Backwards is not forwards.
Yeah, things have always been tough on the working class no matter how you slice it.
It used to be when a man’s wife had a baby, all he got was a free beer after work with the boys before he went to see his wife in the hospital.
We’ve come a long way, but we’ve got much farther to go. The 50s-70s aren’t some kind of magical economic utopia. Backwards is not forwards.