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The 80s and 90s are still way worse than today.
Just out of curiousity, did you ever live in the 80s or 90s?
I was a child throughout the 90s in the US, and I don't think its just rose colored glasses. We didn't have the internet as a whole, but government still mostly worked, we had a good chunk of the middle class left, the enshittification of everything being cheaply made in china hadn't happened either, food wasn't all hyper processed HFC's outside of candy and stuff that is clearly junk food.
I think there's some objectively good stuff in that time period, and its not so long ago that you don't have good medical science and can travel by car and have running water (in the developed world at least).
The internet didn't create new problems. It made it so the problems were visible. I know a bunch of nerds boomers and genXers who talk about how it use to be a mono culture, but really, you could only know the people in your own little corner.
Did the internet and personal recording devices make police brutality worse or just more visible? I remember when teachers weren't use to half their students having flip phones that could record audio and oh boy, the causal and not so causal racism directed at the students was insane.
Yeah I do remember, i remember how I needed three cans of coke for dinner because our parents cooked every piece of meat to the point of shoe leather. I remember being dirt poor during the economic slump in the early 90s and how that made all the dads super stressed at a time when you could still slap your kid around a little.
Also Ronald Reagan winning all but one state, locking America into neoliberal economics for 40 years.
Worse TV (on average), too many commercials.
Lot more open racism, sexism, fatphobia.
Being bored on the toilet.
Shit sucked.