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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1097499" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>"Hell even the generation that lived through the 2 world wars had a period of prosperity in between (unless you were German)."</p><p></p><p>Missed that bit did you? Also the fact there was a whole decade called the "roaring 20's" in the middle there, not really what you call a decade of stagnation. I was talking more about the complete lack of any sort of uptick in prosperity, just a crisis followed by a partial recovery before the next crisis, at no point are we managing to achieve a full recovery before the next problem hits. I would have thought I had made that fairly obvious but apparently not...</p><p></p><p>The era from 1910-1950 was obviously worse at it's worst but the thing is the awfulness of the early 1910's was followed by a great prosperity in the 1920's. The horrible 1930's-40's was followed by a period of massive social change and eventual prosperity in the 50's and 60's. The terrible were followed by "boom" periods. We've had negative followed by stagnation followed by negative followed by stagnation. Where has the boom been in the last 15 years? Where is it on the horizon? All we have for the next half a decade predicted is more negative and stagnation. No massive social movements, a bit of a reorganisation of society following economic necessity during covid, no massive uptick in wealth or productivity. The positives have really been limited to simply not falling further. It's not that any moment in time things are worse than they have been for others, it's that it's just going on and on and on, a decay rather than a collapse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1097499, member: 56232"] "Hell even the generation that lived through the 2 world wars had a period of prosperity in between (unless you were German)." Missed that bit did you? Also the fact there was a whole decade called the "roaring 20's" in the middle there, not really what you call a decade of stagnation. I was talking more about the complete lack of any sort of uptick in prosperity, just a crisis followed by a partial recovery before the next crisis, at no point are we managing to achieve a full recovery before the next problem hits. I would have thought I had made that fairly obvious but apparently not... The era from 1910-1950 was obviously worse at it's worst but the thing is the awfulness of the early 1910's was followed by a great prosperity in the 1920's. The horrible 1930's-40's was followed by a period of massive social change and eventual prosperity in the 50's and 60's. The terrible were followed by "boom" periods. We've had negative followed by stagnation followed by negative followed by stagnation. Where has the boom been in the last 15 years? Where is it on the horizon? All we have for the next half a decade predicted is more negative and stagnation. No massive social movements, a bit of a reorganisation of society following economic necessity during covid, no massive uptick in wealth or productivity. The positives have really been limited to simply not falling further. It's not that any moment in time things are worse than they have been for others, it's that it's just going on and on and on, a decay rather than a collapse. [/QUOTE]
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