people love to romanticize stuff without doing any true cost comparisons.
like how bad the environment was in the 1980s compared to today. or how expensive electronics were, and how unsafe cars were (and many were still using lead gas). and how bad nutrition and healthcare was. my dad had a massive heart attack in 2002 and lived another 10 years, in 1985 he’d have died on the spot because the surgery he needed didn’t exist yet. Let’s not even talk about the massive crime problem in the 1980s… and how anyone with any money refused to live in an urban area due to it.
life is generally way safer, cleaner, and healthier now and we have so much more access to improve our lives than we did in the 1980s. but nobody wants to talk about that. just be outraged at the cheapness of groceries and housing.
people’s perception of cost is highly relative.
people love to romanticize stuff without doing any true cost comparisons.
like how bad the environment was in the 1980s compared to today. or how expensive electronics were, and how unsafe cars were (and many were still using lead gas). and how bad nutrition and healthcare was. my dad had a massive heart attack in 2002 and lived another 10 years, in 1985 he’d have died on the spot because the surgery he needed didn’t exist yet. Let’s not even talk about the massive crime problem in the 1980s… and how anyone with any money refused to live in an urban area due to it.
life is generally way safer, cleaner, and healthier now and we have so much more access to improve our lives than we did in the 1980s. but nobody wants to talk about that. just be outraged at the cheapness of groceries and housing.