jesus christ, he's still going on

We're better off than the 80s ... We're DEFINITELY better off than the 70s

we're not

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Also pretty rich to talk about inflating the rich of the richest when your system would do just that.

I mean... My parents would go weeks without power...

my grandparents had a fucking horse, that's tech-level dependent

No it's not tech

It was money... The gov switched off the power

life expectancy is going down, job security is almost non-existent, you now require 2 working members in a household to make ends meet, house ownership is going down, house size and quality is going down

suicides up, happiness down

fertility rates down

marriage rates down

health of people and the environment down

muhhhgdp is up, though

Your forgetting that a lot of that went up significantly to this point

which is what you're conflating

I honestly think the numbers are being fudged.

Life expectancy and job security are both up

life expectancy is going down, job security is through the fucking floor compared to 50 years ago

You think job security was good in the 70s???

Staying in one job for life shouldn't be normal

it was better than now, wacka

why shouldn't it?

Dude... You mad :p

Because it's uncompetitive to have unfireable people

Its not like there are groups that would find those numbers useful propaganda.

who said unfireable?

the fact is people commonly had jobs for life, and now we have a gig economy

Which is good

Jobs should become more relaxed

if you're retarded maybe

I'd fire half the Civil Service out of spite.

Do it out of need tbh

you can't start a family or commit to buying a house in a gig economy

Its a cancerious tumor @Kunarian

without introducing a huge amount of doubt and fear

@Eccles Economy is changing, the future is now old man

of course it's changing

what do yout hink i've been describing?

70s unemployment rate was almost double figures

you say it's universally good, i'm saying it's not