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Re:Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not by blanderman on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:42AM (#17828166)
It's odd to me how the president from 1969 to 1977 and 1981 to 1993 was a republican, but the argument is that 'hippies' took over?
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Re:Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not by wozniacki on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:59PM (#17829326)
He's talking about the cultural left not the political one deployed to ensure voter turnout.

Perhaps this will add more context:

  Today’s aged hippies no longer understand that there
  is a difference between the election of a black 
  president and the creation of cheap solar energy; in 
  their minds, the movement towards greater civil rights
  parallels general progress everywhere. Because of these
  ideological conflations and commitments, the 1960s
  Progressive Left cannot ask whether things actually 
  might be getting worse. I wonder whether the endless
  fake cultural wars around identity politics are the 
  main reason we have been able to ignore the tech 
  slowdown for so long.[1]
[1] The End of the Future

https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/10/end-future-peter-thie...

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Re:Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not by blanderman on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:05PM (#17829771)
I just see a lot of very bold assertions without statistical references to back them up.
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