• GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Shhh, chronically online white youth don’t want to talk about that. Hell if you were a woman you couldn’t even have a bank account on your own until 1974.

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          10 days ago

          if you were a woman you couldn’t even have a bank account on your own until 1974.

          That’s not actually true though. The banks were not required to allow women to open bank accounts but plenty did anyway.

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Nah. If you were born in 1966, by the time you turned 30 you lived through Vietnam, the AIDS epidemic, the civil rights movement, Desert Storm, and you spent your entire life with nuclear apocalypse hanging over you in the form of the cold war. And the US economy wasn’t doing great either until the 90s.

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          No, they couldn’t afford groceries then either. Goodness. Like do people forget the oil crisis in the 70’s? Wonder why so many receipes came out about Jello and microwaves?

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            10 days ago

            In fairness, microwaves went mainstream in the 1980s. Most people didn’t have them in the ten years prior.

            There’s a joke in the movie “American Hustle”, taking place in 1978, about the lead character getting a $3,000 “Science Oven” as a bribe.