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yarr@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Tho I think people from 70s would very much still choose 2025 living over 70s. People really underestimate how much better we have now.

Couldn’t I yearn for a time that has neither the bad points of 1970 and none of the bad points from 2025? Not everything was worse in the 1970s, and not everything was better, either.

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drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sure the same way I yearn for Middle Earth then.

If you take at least half of a reasonable utilitarian position then 70s don’t stand a chance no matter how you look at it. Everything is literally better now except nostalgic bullshit like “housing was cheaper if I was white american” and “I couldn’t doomscroll” sort of nonsense.

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- yarr@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t find it too hard to indicate some things that were actually better in the 1970s:
  
  Consumer goods and appliances were typically more reliable and designed to be repaired
  
  Less additives in the food supply
  
  Obesity was less of a problem
  
  College education was more affordable with an entry level job
  
  Children had more freedom (would roam the neighborhood for hours unsupervised)
  
  Less surveilance
  
  I can make all these points without saying “1970 was better in every way than 2025”. Why does it have to be all-or-nothing? Can’t some things have been better then and not worse?
  
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