• mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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    7 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.

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

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        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.