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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1950s through the 1980s.  [/quote]

DP, i'd extend it to late 90s with the expansion of IT until the end of the dotcom era.  When you're the country with a manufacturing base that wasn't destroyed by war you have a huge advantage.

[quote]So you think the 1950's were good for non whites in the US then?[/quote]
Yep, things got better, you had the great migration, brown vs board of ed, and lots of manufacturing jobs were provided!  US dominance post war of manufacturing plus a strong military meant lots of job job jobs! Strong unions too.

[quote]Do you think women were equal then?[/quote]

Women and men will never be equal. Viva la difference!  They have complementary traits.  Plus not having to slave away to some boss in an office has benefits.

[quote]Do you know what the tax rates were in the 1950's-1980?[/quote]
Almost no one paid those taxes on a personal level. On the other hand corporate tax policy did mean that companies gave more benefits to employees and there was more investment in technology. Look at Bell Labs, Xerox Parc, or IBM Research Labs which were in part a result of tax policy.

[quote]Do you know how much the Dow grew in the late 1950's to early 1970's?[/quote]
PE ratio expansion isn't exactly a great thing.  On the otherhand if you were a dividend investor, you were fine.

[quote]If you think that post war era was so great, you are looking at it through a very narrow lens. [/quote]

Not at all!

Today we have lousy work life ballance, an economy based off intangibles that can easily be disrupted, a (legally) drugged up population, tons of neighbors who are isolated from one another with no sense of community, and if you are a service worker, lousy job prospects with poor benefits.

but we have iphones and LGBT acceptance so i guess its a fair tradeoff.
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LOL at your flippant answer that the 1950s were so great because "things got better" for black Americans. Was just reading a review about a new book about Emmitt Till's murder. Ask your black friends and family members if they remember the 1950s fondly, when they had to act subservient, couldn't move into certain areas, couldn't get certain jobs or get into certain schools, and where representations of black Americans in movies were all painful stereotypes.

And would you really, as a woman, go back to a time where casual sexism was rampant, where you'd have been asked to leave jobs if you got married or had children, where it wasn't illegal to pay you way less than your male colleagues for the same job, where you couldn't take out a mortgage or get a credit card without having a male co-sign? I hear you that you want to be a SAHM who is expected to wait hand and foot on your husband and children - fine. No one is stopping you from doing that now.

Also, regarding your last sentence, why would you want to live in an era where your gay friends and family had to suppress themselves or risk being jailed for loving someone??? Yikes.[/quote]

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