• @John_McMurray
    link
    119 months ago

    It never was, if you lived it. TV isn’t a reliable history book

    • @mods_are_assholes
      link
      33
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      I lived it for a few brief years in the 70s then Reagan fucked us all

      It was absolutely true. The only families not on single income were hard laborers or non-managerial retail/fast food and even then a carpenter could easily feed a family of 5.

      • @John_McMurray
        link
        -15
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        “It was true for me because I was from a moderately wealthy area and family therefore it was the norm”

        • @mods_are_assholes
          link
          139 months ago

          Lol no, not even close. My dad was a construction worker and my mom was a housewife until 1985, and we lived in the deep south. She took up data entry, and that’s how I got my start on computers.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              129 months ago

              Did you have an iodine deficiency growing up? His whole fucking point is that he WASN’T POOR. Despite having only one parent working in manual labor.

              • @John_McMurray
                link
                -149 months ago

                Do you understand the context here? Don’t seem like it.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  1
                  edit-2
                  8 months ago

                  The context of you being a total dick for no apparent reason? Yeah, that context is loud and fucking clear. Maybe don’t refer to people as “it” in the future and people might take your argumentation a little better.

                  • @John_McMurray
                    link
                    08 months ago

                    No reason at all, nope, nothing to do with you being a fuckwit.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      269 months ago

      Eh, I think it was, for a certain type of person:

      A middle class white male. Now even working couples with no children can have trouble making ends meet.

    • @Maggoty
      link
      98 months ago

      So my parents didn’t go to college for the wages of a job worked only during the summer?

      They didn’t walk straight into jobs?

      My grandfathers didn’t provide for 6 kids each on a solo income in the post war era?

      Buddy. We have the history. The records, the paperwork, the video evidence.

      • @John_McMurray
        link
        -98 months ago

        Nope. You have vague stories from two generations back of a generation noted for not mentioning the hard parts.

        • @Maggoty
          link
          68 months ago

          Lmao. No. It really is all documented. This isn’t the dark ages where entire populations drop off the record and reappear 100 years later.