Which turning and archetype is most joyful?

[David Horn]

(05-08-2020, 11:53 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I can agree with the chart and that things got worse starting with the election of Nixon, but disagree about the causes, or would supplement them.  That was when the progressive era ended, the conservative era began.  I put the break around the convention in Chicago and the election.  In the progressive era labor unions were strong as were benefits.  The advantage of increased productivity went to the laborers more, instead of the elites.  Watergate, the oil crisis, the hostage crisis, the national malaise, all contributed to things going bad.  Reagan's voodoo economics and shipping jobs overseas made it worse later.

Certainly there was enough going wrong in the 70s to go around.

Amen! That era is still the benchmark era for social decline. When you start high, the fall looks all the worse. We both failed to mention the two oil embargoes ('73 and '79) that raised the cost of fuel and nearly everything else in weeks, not years. 1973 is also the point where the two-income family became the norm -- exacerbating the imbalance of jobs to workers for good.

And that's only scratching the surface, to be honest about it.