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Re:Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests... by eudamoniac on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:30PM (#48963100)
The factors of millions of men (workers) dying in war while the country itself was untouched, and all of Europe being bombed, leading to cheap land, increased demand for labor, and a powerful dollar. We just have to nuke Europe and cull a bit of our own people too and we'll be in the golden age again. Or we have to get used to it.
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Re:Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests... by vkou on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:15AM (#48965671)
> The factors of millions of men (workers) dying in war while the country itself was untouched,

Less than half a million Americans died in WW2. For American demographics, the war was a footnote, unlike the utter devastation it inflicted on Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, the USSR.

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Re:Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests... by UncleMeat on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:02AM (#48967364)
A 60 year old was born in 1966 and started their career in the mid 80s. That's displaced pretty far from ww2.
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