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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by imgabe on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:26PM (#21261140)
There was also the fact that the productive capacity of almost all of the industrialized world besides the US had been destroyed. China and the rest of Asia were mostly subsistence farmers, and China itself was undergoing a huge famine.

It's unlikely we're going to see circumstances like that again. We have to figure out how to make things work with the world we have today, not try to return to some bygone era that was actually really horrible in a lot of ways for a lot of people.

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by iguy on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:57PM (#21261537)
Sure that too. And indeed, re-running WWII to try to solve our inequality problems would be a terrible idea.

I just think it's worth trying to understand all the ways in which society and the world were different back then. In part so as not to be too easily seduced by anyone offering one of them in isolation as a solution.

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