Probably 2020 and 2021 when they were excused from paying rent for awhile, and $1,000 magically appeared in their bank accounts a few times.
Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When was the last good year for poor people? Anyone? Bueller?
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
A lot of the world was jobless, rent became debt and lost a lot of family members. For me all of those along with getting depressed and still unable to recover to my normal appetite.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
2020 was the best year of my life.
Infynis@midwest.social 7 months ago
The last time was probably the Neolithic Revolution
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Before it.
Agriculture actually made people’s lives much worse in many regards. Worse diet, women turned into commodities, shorter life spans due to increased infectious diseases, much less free time due to having to put more effort into getting food (somewhat surprisingly hunter-gatherers have way more free time) etc. It’s been great for rulers and population growth though.
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 7 months ago
post-depression new deal stuff was pretty good? right? the wealth made more sense from there until it was gutted in the 80s
Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 months ago
70s recession based on skyrocketing oil prices because of fighting in the middle east is what made the 80s the way it was. Everyone got uncomfortable and upset that it wasn’t all perfect and started fighting to screw over everyone else to make their life better and it worked. The lead fumes also at that point likely didn’t help but yeah the 80s was just the time of action from people disliking the 70s that sent us on this slow painful crawl towards a failing economic system with a couple stops on the way to make it worse to keep the machine chugging along.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
What do you mean? 141 fewer poors? Sounds like a great year for us.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Damn. You got me there. Guess I shouldn’t complain.
Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t it the “poor” people paying to see/hear TS?
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
July 14th, 1789