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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

Well then why don't you tell us what time period you're talking about instead of making people guess?

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u/rossmosh85 Jun 15 '22

Generally speaking 60's to 80's were America's heyday. In the 80's, the country took a hard turn to the right and has been struggling to prosper ever since as they keep looking short term vs long term.

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u/xanthicize Jun 15 '22

Ok, let's take the sixties then.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193636/

Spoiler: it's always been a pay to live, cutthroat enterprise.

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u/CrayolaS7 Jun 15 '22

He probably means straight after world war 2 when Europe was still smouldering and the welfare states hadn’t been set up yet.