Let the trade wars begin

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We have this nostalgia ... with with mass production technology (rather than custom manufactured stuff like we have more of now),

We don't have much 'custom' manufactured stuff at all, Torie.  All that innovation talk is just business school mumbo jumbo.  We still make just a few big things for consumption - cars, houses, food/clothes, and services relating to conflict, illness, and death.  What has happened is not that manufacturing has changed, just that it has been moved to slave states.   This is a very good move for owners but makes most people miserable and has the side effect of creating a dearth of demand which destroys the economic system.

There ..."golden age" ... the standard of living then even for the working stiffs was considerably less than it is now, particularly considering all the amenities we  currently enjoy, and most folks have, like cell phones, that did not exist then.

Totally wrongheaded right-wing talking point there Torie, I'm afraid.  A microwave and a mobile phone does not make up for security and lifetime wellbeing.  Life is still about social position, security, being able to afford a house and car, education and rearing for 2-3 kids, health care, and a pension/retirement.  All of those things are less available now to working class people than they were in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Yes, in return for their economic disenfranchisement they get a stupid computer machine.  This is nothing, and in any case would have occurred even without the political changes that destroyed the working class.

I love the new age!

Of course you do, you're a privileged.

Opebo =  One of the greatest economic minds this forum has.. maybe even this country.

Obviously you are for the legalization of crack.