Re:The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
by soligern on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:00AM
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In the United States, if you’re not a white male it probably is. It was also probably pretty good for white women that didn’t want a job and wanted to be a homemaker.
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Re:The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
by coldtea on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:50AM
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There are changes (systemic and "organic") in the United States that made it worse for everybody, including people that are not white males, while at the same time issues like systemic racial injustices got better.
A vibrant economy and an on the rise domestic production, for example, meant many more working class jobs for everybody, for example, including blacks. Housing and healthcare was more affordable, including for blacks. That's how millions of blacks post-war could enter into middle class, a class that is now squeezed for both blacks and whites.
Amazing, how orthogonal changes can happen in both directions? And that eras are not just defined from a single aspect, and are not just like their mass media caricatures?