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[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, but the US had greater prosperity because of an unfortunate event that reduced the prosperity of other nations and which afforded a particular set of unique economic opportunities. It's very easy for your average schmuck to get a bigger piece of the pie when the pie is simply bigger for a little while.

Also, those jobs were always going to be exported as soon as it became economically viable to do so. That decision as never not going to be made. If you want to address the root cause of American economic inequality or job loss, you can point to capitalism's need for constant growth as the root cause. But don't ignore the historical realities of America's post-war boom economy in order to fantasize it as some mythical "lost economic golden age."

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Off shoring jobs wasn't at all a foregone conclusion. One measure some countries take that we don't is to tax any company that uses too much foreign labor as a foreign company. Instead we drank that globalism kool-aid.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...are you talking to me? Where am I fantasizing this "as some mythical 'lost economic golden age?'" I'm here pointing out that the 50s actually sucked really hard for a lot of Americans who were not middle or upper class white people

I'll add though that America's "pie" is much, much larger today than it was in the 50s, so saying it was easy to have more of the pie back then because it was bigger is false

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