What Socialists think the 1950's were like
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Sure things are worse now, but by all accounts I've heard first hand it points to a lot of things they wouldn't do today. Houses were tiny and the children shared small rooms. Women cooked almost every meal and tended the house. Some made clothes for the kids. Eating out was rare and expensive. It wasn't stop at Starbucks daily for breakfast, eat out at lunch, and doorfash dinner while watching TV on one of six paid streaming services. The wife got up and cooked breakfast and made coffee, packed lunch for the husband, and cooked dinner. You watched on the one TV whatever was on the three free channels, or did something else.
I always hear a lot about this dead dream, but very little about modem people willing to live that life.
Children shared rooms but they also used rooms as bedrooms instead of "hang out here all day on my computer/phone" rooms. Its a lot easier to share a room when all you use it for is mostly sleeping and storage, and spend your awake time playing outside or in the more social family rooms.
And women did all of those things because they literally had nothing else to do all day, and needed to earn their keep while staving off the insanity boredom can bring to anyone.
Almost all the things you listed are solutions people take to problems that didn't used to exist. No modern people are willing to live it because they literally can't for the most part and in order to do so they'd have to work 4x as hard for no reason other than to chase some "dream" rather than it being the natural state of things and easy to achieve.
Also the overlap between Starbucks and 6 Streaming subs as well as "dreams of the Leave it to Beaver life" is probably pretty small, so why would you even suspect one to want the other.
So basically: technology was a mistake.
Nah, having raised a few children I can say the problem isn't the technology entirely, its that we exist in a low trust society where there isn't enough for them to do that isn't stay inside and get addicted to technology.
You can't just say "go play" and let them wander until the sun goes down in almost any area of the country that has more people than corn. Especially as, you don't have a mom at every home to keep track of them and have a community wide vigilance system whereever they might end up.
So basically, niggers ruined everything outside the home and feminists ruined everything inside it.
This makes me want to burn the whole world to ash.
eating out was more expensive. but it was real food. hell, you can barely buy real food in the supermarket today, unlike in the 50s.
houses were smaller, but they were built with far, far better materials. The wood was better. everyone had oak hardwoods. the entire house wasn't filled with plastic synthetics that would immediately burst into flames. have you seen 1950s vs. 2000s burn-rate test videos? not to mention the outgassing and microplastic residues in your air.
families had 1 car but you could take the bus or subway and not get stabbed by a nog or meximutt. hell, kids used the public buses, used their bikes all over town, and they weren't getting their heads football kicked into curbs.