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When was the last good year for poor people? Anyone? Bueller?
July 14th, 1789
Probably 2020 and 2021 when we were excused from paying rent for awhile, and $1,000 magically appeared in our bank accounts a few times.
A lot of the world was jobless, rent became debt and lost a lot of family members. For me all of those along with getting depressed and still unable to recover to my normal appetite.
2020 was the best year of my life.
The last time was probably the Neolithic Revolution
Before it.
Agriculture actually made people's lives much worse in many regards. Worse diet, women turned into commodities, shorter life spans due to increased infectious diseases, much less free time due to having to put more effort into getting food (somewhat surprisingly hunter-gatherers have way more free time) etc. It's been great for rulers and population growth though. If anything, poor people were invented in the Neolithic Revolution
edit: see eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7253633/, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110615094514.htm
post-depression new deal stuff was pretty good? right? the wealth made more sense from there until it was gutted in the 80s
70s recession based on skyrocketing oil prices because of fighting in the middle east is what made the 80s the way it was. Everyone got uncomfortable and upset that it wasn't all perfect and started fighting to screw over everyone else to make their life better and it worked. The lead fumes also at that point likely didn't help but yeah the 80s was just the time of action from people disliking the 70s that sent us on this slow painful crawl towards a failing economic system with a couple stops on the way to make it worse to keep the machine chugging along.
What do you mean? 141 fewer poors? Sounds like a great year for us.
Damn. You got me there. Guess I shouldn't complain.
Isn't it the "poor" people paying to see/hear TS?