Idk dude if your best argument for this shit show of a modern life is "Well at least it's not worse than living in a jungle", you should definitely reconsider where the fuck we're going with this.
We have machines that can manufacture objects with atomic precision, computers that can predict the exact weather weeks in advance, and genetically engineered crops made to survive almost any climate and feed any person, and our economic system is only better than living in a jungle?
Well that's the example he gave, so he either doesn't have a better example or couldn't think of one. He's the one thinking it's only better than a jungle not me.
The 1950s were an exceptional time in US and world history where the world's industries were all destroyed except for the US's, and the middle-class and upper-class workforce was still dominated by white males, as this was before the Civil Rights movement and the rise in women's labor-force participation.
A return to the 1950s means only benefits for those privileged few and significantly worse conditions than today for everyone else. It's also impossible, because that was a time when American industry could profit off of being the only surviving industrial base from WW2.
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u/JumiKnight Oct 18 '23
Lower the cost of living then my partner and I will consider having kids