like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
The other part being that we got rich helping everyone else rebuild from getting their cities bombed to shit while we only lost Pearl Harbor and didn’t have any large scale infrastructure projects to recover from.
When you can be the supplier to everyone else, you can make big bucks.
And not long before that, literally enslaved people to get shit done cheap…
Oh yeah, the post war economic boom was nothing compared to a few states selling cotton at a decent price /s