• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Bruh, the 50s was terrible for most people…

    Like, anyone that wasn’t a straight white man for example

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      5 months ago

      Did you read the article? This isn’t about social issues but about economics and energy production. The title is just a hook.

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        5 months ago

        Actually not really.

        When looking at the whole of human history, there’s a brief window where the people running shit were rich white men.

        If you’re timeframe is just America, we’ll, that’s a ridiculously small timeframe really.