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• greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You and I lived in very different 90s.

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  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What was yours like?

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    • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As another commenter mentioned, the 90s as peak Reaganomics, the war on drugs were destroying poor neighborhoods, and prescription drug abuse was skyrocketing. Reaganomics were robbing the middle class of what little wealth they had. The war on drugs was ensuring that poor families were being destroyed. Prescription drug over prescription as feeding families directly to the war on drugs.

      That’s the 90s I remember. The entire system had been broken to make as many people as possible poor, and keep them there.

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    • demlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very different…

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  90s "prosperity" was entirely fake, still being driven by the "reaganomics" of the 80s, and were the peak before the long, drawn out collapse you're seeing now. 9/11 was the beginning of the end.

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  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah and now we don't even have fake prosperity. Just shit.

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