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[–] 146 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Haha we got fucking head injuries and it was fine because we could afford to raise an entire family on one salary from the spatula factory and that only requires 67 IQ points.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A few head injuries wouldn’t separate you from the leaded gasoline poisoned brains of the masses.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Coming of age in the 1970s was peak Selection Bias.

    Either Vietnam got you or the poisoned air and water got you or AIDS got you or traffic fatalities got you or poverty got you or you lived just long enough to tell your kids and grandkids that things were better when you were young.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If "we" were white, male, straight, lived in the US immediately following WWII when every other developed country's economy had been absolutely devastated, and still had a lot of the union strength and worker protections that had been put in place during the great depression.

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